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Humanitarian aid work in Practice - a talk by Ivana Vuco, Syslab's PhD student

February 26, 2020
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On February 26, Environmental Systems Laboratory hosted a guest lecture with Ivana Vuco, USAID/Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) regional advisor for Europe and Central Asia and Daunia Pavone, USAID consultant. They talked about practical aspects of aid work, related challenges and specificities of information management. Ivana focused on some fundamental issues in humanitarian aid, and Daunia elaborated on how data is collected, what methods are used, and how decision making is supported by information.

Practical Workshops on Remote Sensing Data Analysis

February 25, 2020
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On February 26th, Elizaveta Khazieva of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam run a practical workshop on application of sattelite technologies in agricultural monitoring. Among the applications are crop identification, its condition assessment, yield estimation and forecasting, as well as precision agriculture. Elizaveta familiarized students with technical tools for agricultural monitoring and conveyed a practical workshop to try out some of the tools.

Congratulations Doctoral Student Award Recipients!

February 14, 2020

We are proud to announce that two PhD students affiliated with Systems Laboratory received this year's CEU Doctoral Awards:

Ivana Vuco 

(First-Year Doctoral Student Award)

Ivana's research topic is on negotiating humanitarian principles in disaster settings.

Fourth Year of Disaster Management Open Lecture Series

February 4, 2020

The Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Environmental Systems Laboratory for the third time organize a series of open lectures on Disaster Management and Risk Reduction at CEU.

The lectures are to be conducted by practitioners from relevant organizations worldwide.

The following talks are scheduled in the Winter Term:

Apply for 2020 ISEPEI Weekend Workshops!

January 31, 2020

We are glad to announce that the applications for ISEPEI WEEKEND workshops are now open!