Poland will cooperate with the DR Congo in the field of geology
On 19 November 2019, a signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Polish Geological Institute – NRI (PGI-NRI) and the Centre de Recherches Géologiques et Minières of the DR Congo (CRGM) was held in Kinshasa.
Geoinformation in the face of civilizational challenges
The 29th Conference of the Polish Association for Spatial Information was organized at the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management at the Warsaw University of Technology on 6-7 November 2019. The theme of this year’s meeting, held under the patronage of the Chief Country Geodesist, Dr. hab. Eng. Waldemar Izdebski, was “Geoinformation in the face of civilizational challenges”.
PanLatEUGeo project proposal - cooperation between geological surveys of Europe and Latin America
An extraordinary meeting of the International Cooperation and Development Task Force of the Force EuroGeoSurveys (ICDTF EGS) took place in Madrid on 1-2 October 2019. It was organized by ICDTF leader Diana Ponce de León Gil from the Geological Survey of Spain (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, IGME Spain) in order to give a new boost to preparation of work on a proposal of the PanLatEUGeo Project for approval of the European Commission.
New Directors of the Polish Geological Institute - NRI
On 5 October 2019, Minister of Environment Henryk Kowalczyk appointed Ph.D. Eng. Mateusz Damrat as new Director of the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute. New assignments were made also to other managerial positions.