Geography night

About this initiative

Geography is the exciting science that moves the world and anecdotally quite unknown by most people. If you stop anyone on the street and ask: "Do you know what a person with a degree in geography can do?", there will be few who can say anything more than read maps, name capitals, rivers, or other similar things .

Professionals in geography are trained for much more, such as knowing how to conduct spatial planning , combat climate change and its consequences, fight against natural and technological risks, design geomarketing strategies , use state-of-the-art remote sensing tools, find patterns and relationships between human and natural problems through spatial analysis , making them perfect allies to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals , and much more.

With the aim of highlighting geography and professionals in this field, "Geography Night" (geonight.net) is an international initiative in which one evening or night a year events are organized simultaneously around the world .

In this way, anyone has the opportunity to become familiar with the approach of the geographic discipline, its research work, and its usefulness as an applied science to solve the great challenges facing the planet.

Specifically, this page you are visiting is a recreational initiative that was originally launched by the Spanish Association of Geography in collaboration with other entities to disseminate the contents of geography as well as to promote the connection between the group of geographers and geography enthusiasts from different parts of the world.