Environmental Informatics at the heart of discussions

Published on 21/09/2017

The EnviroInfo conference series is one of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary forum on leading environmental information and communication technologies. The 31st edition of the conference was held on 13-15 September 2017 at the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg, organised by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), under the patronage of the Technical Committee on Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society.

The event gathered more than 140 participants coming from 21 countries. The tag line of this year’s conference was “From Science to Society: The Bridge provided by Environmental Informatics”. It underlines that Environmental Informatics has its roots in applied research and that it is not an ivory tower discipline. Environmental research at LIST is a clear example of this focus on doing research that has a high impact on the society and on the environment.

The environmental issues like the air pollution, the assessment of production patterns, or the loss of biodiversity are not limited by borders between countries. It is especially relevant for Luxembourg due to its size and location at the heart of Europe. How informatics can help to deal with complex cross-border problems is one of the key topic that has been under focus during EnviroInfo 2017.

During 3 days, the conference gathered both researchers presenting their last scientific results and practitioners reporting how they have implemented innovative solutions in their organisation. The papers covered topics such as land-use planning, energy-aware software engineering, disaster management, sustainable mobility, interoperability of data and information systems, and remote sensing.

At LIST, researchers from the e-Science Unit are working on these topics. As part of their activities to support data-driven scientific and technological advancement, researchers seek to design and implement innovative, robust and scalable software tools and infrastructure, as well as to develop new data analytics techniques and to explore new visualisation methods and theories.

>> The EnviroInfo 2018 conference has already been scheduled and will be held at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Germany. Find out more on the event website!