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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thanks to Nikos and all our editors for their dedication
and work on producing another excellent edition of Geo4All newsletter. It is great to see the newsletter getting bigger and bigger and it just shows the vibrant activities of our colleagues globally from organising FOSS workshops for Tanzanian Park Ecologists
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are our lab of the month. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As I started on this “Lab of the month” series for the Geo for All newsletter, I myself started learning more and more about the excellent work that our
amazing colleagues globally have been doing. It is important that we can share these amazing ideas with all, so that it keeps building more synergies. We are a global community and it is this global perspective which gives us strength. It is important that
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span lang="EN-US">Australia is an amazing country and a key leader in geospatial science and I have been always inspired by the excellent research done by colleagues there. In Nov 2013,</span> I was part of an European
Union delegation on Research Infrastructure to visit Canberra at events hosted by the Department of Education of the Australian Government. The Third European Union –Australia workshop and meetings on Research Infrastructure was held in the Australian Academy
of Science , Canberra (5-6 Nov 2013) and focussed in the areas of healthy ageing, clean energy and sustainable cities [2] , with a cross cutting theme on industry links. <span lang="EN-US">The details of <b>the Joint European Commission- Australian Government
Communique</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> is at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/pdf/Third%20European%20Australian%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Communique.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/pdf/Third%20European%20Australian%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Communique.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman">It is our great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at <span lang="EN-US">the <a href="http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html">SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory</a>, University of Wollongong , Australia
as our “Geo4All” lab of this month whose research reminded me of the essense of this Joint European Commission-Australian Government agreements and spirit of working together for enabling research which focuses on global scale challenges and opportunities.
<b>SMART's Open Source Geospatial Lab</b> is undertaking a number of research projects that are centered on the use and development of free and Open Source Geospatial software to assist governments, business and the community in responding to infrastructure
problems and creating solutions for the future. So read the Geo4All newsletters to keep updated on our latest developments at </span></font><a href="http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/" target="_blank" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family: Tahoma;">http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/</a> </font></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Best wishes,</font></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 07, 2016 10:56 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I am glad to announce that the March 2016 issue of our Newsletter has been uploaded onto our website <a href="http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/" target="_blank" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I would like to thank all the co-editors and our members for their contribution. This issue is the biggest ever.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Have a nice reading</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Nikos Lambrinos</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Associate Professor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Dept. of Primary Education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Tel. +30 2310 991201</span></p>
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</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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