📢Call for the #CopernicusLand 🇪🇺🛰️enthusiasts! #CLMS has launched a survey to gather user feedback and insights on the Copernicus Land Data Store (#CLDS). Take part at 👉land.copernicus.eu/en/news/clds-s…

Elevating the Climate-Land-Nature-Drought Nexus, from Climate COP28 to Land COP16 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

REGISTER NOW! Theme is "Land and Societies in the context of Innovation, consolidation and revitalization." 6 keynotes from Africa, Europe & Asia; and 10 research papers from Africa, Europe & Asia. Day 1 link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Day 2 link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We are privileged to host one of our alumni, Prof. Melissa Schumacher Gonzalez Melissa Schumacher from @UDLAP, as she shares her research and insights with our team on post-colonial urban development thinking and indigenous planning.

Ongoing: Prof. Serena Coetze Serena from the University of Pretoria shares her research (during her sabbatical in our Chair) on Geospatial data in land use planning studies. The research focuses on the availability, accessibility usability of geospatial data.

Join us at 13:00 CET today as we talk about our MSc Land Management and Geospatial Science program, and respond to all your questions about the program: tum-conf.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing Lin Zhou who defended her PhD today on the topic "Beyond the Traditional: Voluntary Collective Action Initiatives in China's Rural Land Development"

Prof. Walter de Vries Walter T. de Vries delivers a key note speech at the #TUM-Africa Talent Networking Event in which he shares insights on Sustainable and Smart Land Management in a Global Perspective

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing Marco Hölzel Marco Hölzel who defended his PhD thesis today on rural co-working spaces. His thesis is titled "New work in the countryside: Opportunities for rural regions, deserted village centers and a redistribution of work in the area"

eCHIGBU presents and leads a discussion on NELGA sustainability and achievements in the projects on the year and half of coordination. He further highlights the gender strategy, research and capacity development and more.

Prof Trias Aditya from Universitas Gadja Mada visits our Chair and shares insights on Quality issues, cadastral data integration, and monetization with AR/VR technology in the digital land administration era.

"As cities prepare for this rapid urbanization, it is critical to develop #land and #housing policies that balance #growth with #environmental sustainability, social cohesion, and fiscal capacity" Anacláudia Rossbach the Executive Director UN-Habitat Speaking at the opening of #AUF

News: University of Twente Appoints Jaap Zevenbergen as Vice Dean Education for ITC dlvr.it/TF8GzS

Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees. Today we announce the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

This week, we welcomed the 5th cohort of students from 22 countries for the master's program in Land Management and Geospatial Science, who will begin their postgraduate journey at the TUM Chair of Land Management. We wish them the best as they begin this new chapter.Walter T. de Vries

Join eCHIGBU deliver professorial inaugural lecture, "SOCIETY-FOCUSED LAND ADMINISTRATION: Making Social Impacts through Land Interventions," My NUST Wednesday, 30 Oct. 2024. 10am (SAT) / 9am (CET). Zoom us02web.zoom.us/j/83000723845?… Meeting ID: 830 0072 3845 Passcode: IRW@24

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing Prince Donkor Ameyaw Master Donkor Ameyaw, who successfully defended his doctoral research on blockchain adoption for transparency in land administration in Ghana. We wish him all the best in this new chapter of his research career.Walter T. de Vries

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing Pierre Damien Ntihinyurwa, who successfully defended his doctoral research on sustainable farmland fragmentation and modeling of fragmentation scenarios in Rwanda. We wish him all the best in this new chapter of his research career.Walter T. de Vries

SLGA Decade of Eminence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (5-7 Aug 2025) celebrating 10 years of advancing land governance for Africa’s future. Representing NELGA Southern Africa Node My NUST Ms E. Hayford presented on the NELGA Alumni Network, its impact, and the way forward.

In a hybrid event yesterday, we onboarded the 6th cohort of students in our MSc Land Management and Geospatial Science program. We wish the students all the best as they commence their studies here at the Chair of Land Management TUM Land Management at TUM TU München. Walter T. de Vries