On Friday, 28 February 2025, the University of Bucharest hosts the International Symposium “Geophysical and Geological Data for Smart City Solutions: Building Safer, More Resilient Communities”. The abstract submission deadline is 31 January 2025, and the notification of acceptance will be transmitted until 5 February 2025.
The symposium invites contributions exploring practical and innovative ways to utilize geophysical, geological and remote sensing data, including but not limited to:
- District Planning
- Disaster Preparedness. Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Systems
- Design Safer and More Reliable Transportation Infrastructure
- Sustainability Initiatives
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Resource Management
- Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Geophysics beyond Urban Boundaries
- Non-Technical Engagement and Education
- Strategic Insights for Policy and Planning
- Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations
More information about the symposium are available here.
A template for the abstracts is available here.
Abstracts will be submitted via this form. For questions or additional information write at e-mail florina.tuluca@g.unibuc.ro.
The program also includes the following invited presentation Seismic Rapid Early Warning for Smart Cities, speaker: Constantin Ionescu (General Manager of The National Institute for Earth Physics – NIEP).
The event will take place at Casa Universitarilor (Dionisie Lupu 46, Bucharest) and is organized within the project “Driving Sustainable Urban Futures: A Romanian-Norwegian Innovation Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and SMART City Development” (GeoAlliance), funded through the EEA and Norwegian Grants Program, is a collaborative initiative between the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Geology and Geophysics and PSS-GEO, operating under the umbrella of the Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and Smart City Development.
Accepted presentations can be submitted as extended papers for being published as a Journal paper in Sustainable Geoscience – Elsevier (if it falls under the scope and aims of the Journal) or as a book chapter under the aegis of the Romanian Society of Applied Geophysics. Submission is subject to peer review.
For attendance & registration as a participant fill in the following form.
The project “Driving Sustainable Urban Futures: A Romanian-Norwegian Innovation Geophysical Alliance for Green Transition and SMART City Development” is co-financed by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants Romania 2014-2021, in the frame of the SME Growth Programme Romania. Grant number:2024/395080. The project is a collaborative initiative between the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Geology and Geophysics and Pre Stack Solutions – Geo AS (PSS-GEO AS) (www.pss-geo.com).