From October 1st to 3rd, 2025, GREAL worked at the private Albertini Family Archive in Milan to complete an important phase of the research project dedicated to the Arctic exploration of the vessel Heimen Sucai (1929). During the work sessions, the complete transcription of the expedition’s logbook was finalized, thanks…
The new issue of GEOGRAPHICA is now online:Representing the Dimensions of Landscape: GIS Analyses for the City of Trento by Tiziano Brunialti. Marking the 25th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention, the volume presents an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to analysing and sustainably managing urban and peri-urban landscapes. Through advanced Geographic…
The GREAL Laboratory of the European University of Rome has created an immersive virtual tour of the archaeological site of the Church of San Secondo on Polvese Island, in the heart of Lake Trasimeno. The tour allows users to digitally explore the area through 360° video spheres. Full screen View…
“La valle del fiume Amaseno. Fonti geostoriche per la conoscenza del territorio e per la sua valorizzazione” by Sara Carallo GREAL is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume in the Geographica series, published by IF Press. Titled “The Valley of the Amaseno River. Geohistorical Sources for Territorial…
From 2 to 4 July 2025, the city of Trento hosted the international conference Toponyms of Historical Linguistic Minorities in Italy, held at the headquarters of the Autonomous Region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The event was promoted by the Romano-Hellenic Division (RHD) of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical…
The Fourth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN 2025) was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from April 28 to May 2, 2025, and was structured around nine thematic meetings. The central theme of the session was:“Advancing geographical names standardization through…
Iter Ostiense project, developed by GREAL in collaboration with the research centers WGSD and IRCIT, the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, and the DMO H2O Tevere Mare, has been officially launched in its final version for primary school activities. The first school to host the project was “Maestre Pie Filippini”…
The European University of Rome participated in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025 (EGU2025), held in Vienna from April 27 to May 2, 2025. The EGU is the most important European scientific event dedicated to Earth, climate, and space sciences, attracting thousands of researchers from around the world. The…
On April 10th, 2025, a field trip to Sutri was organized by Professor Bizzarri with the involvement of the GREAL geographic research laboratory. Students from the Degree Program in Tourism and Territorial Development and the Degree Program in Primary Education Sciences took part in the activity. The itinerary included a…
The GREAL Laboratory of the European University of Rome has developed a 3D model of the architectural complex consisting of the Church of San Secondo, of medieval origin, and the building of the former Olivetan Monastery, located on Polvese Island, in the heart of Lake Trasimeno. The initiative is part…
The 3D model of the entire Isola Polvese was created through an aerial survey carried out by an automated drone flight, during which over 2,000 nadiral (ground-parallel) photographs were captured. The images were processed in the lab using Agisoft Metashape, resulting in a high-resolution digital reconstruction of the island’s landscape…
On Tuesday, September 24th, the second seminar of the ProSiMo Project will take place. The event can be attended in person at the GREAL laboratory, located on the -1 floor of the European University of Rome, or remotely via a dedicated link. The second seminar of Project ProSiMo II presents the final results of the international collaboration…
From Tuesday, June 11 to Friday, June 28, the exhibition titled ” Il Grande Viaggio dell’Ingegner Albertini. La “Heimen Sucai” nei Mari Artici. Maggio-Settembre 1929″ will be held in the atrium of the European University of Rome.
On May 31, 2024, the “Guido Fanti” Multipurpose Hall of the Regione Emilia Romagna headquarters in Bologna will host the presentation of the “Dieci e Lode” project.
GREAL took part in a scientific workshop hosted by the University of Jaén, Spain, from May 6 to 9, 2024. The initiative was held within the framework of the collaboration entitled “Tools for researching and documenting historical landscape: historical text mining, remote sensing, HGIS and virtualization”, established between LabE2 at…
GREAL participated in a scientific workshop from May 6 to 9, 2024, at the University of Jaén, Spain. The event took place within the framework of the collaboration titled “Tools for researching and documenting historical landscapes: historical text mining, remote sensing, HGIS, and virtualization,” established between the LabE2 of the…
On March 13, 2024, the European University of Rome hosted a conference on the theme of “Climate Justice”, held in the university’s Aula Master and organized by the Degree Program in Law, with the participation of distinguished speakers from other institutions. The rationale behind this scientific event was summarized by…
The Geographic Research and Application Laboratory (GREAL) of the European University of Rome is pleased to announce the public presentation of the PRIN 2022 project “Island 4 Future”, on February 7, 2024, starting at 11:00 AM, at the “Sala del Consiglio”, Università Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234-236, Rome. The PRIN…
GREAL has recently completed a digital 3D model of Zannone Island, located in the Ponziano Archipelago north of Ponza Island, and administratively part of the municipality of Ponza (LT), in the Lazio region of Italy. Zannone covers approximately 1 km² (103 hectares) and is completely uninhabited. Since 1979, the island…
Between November 9th and 11th, an international workshop took place at the Universidad de Jaén (UJA), Spain. The title of the initiative was “ Multidisciplinary Actions to Add Value to the project ‘Archaeological and Environmental Risk Chart and Digital Actions for Smart Tourism of tumbledown Historica-Cultural Heritage in Natural Landscapes of the province of Jaén (DIGITALESCAPE)”.
On Friday, October 27, 2023, at 10:00 AM, the Aula Magna of the European University of Rome will host the presentation of the book “80th Parallel. An Adventure Through Science and Ice” by Paola Catapano, project manager of the PolarQuest2018 expedition and science communicator at CERN in Geneva. The book…
Within the framework of the LabGeoNet collaboration network among Italy’s scientific geographic laboratories, GREAL has released its free geoservice system for GIS data processing. The system was developed by the IT office of the European University of Rome under Eng. Marco Spanu: testing was completed on January 23rd and normal operation…
InsuLab – Prospettive insulari. Questioni storico-geografiche [in Italian]Edited by Arturo Gallia, 2022ISBN 978-88-946229-2-8 In the collective imagination, islands and insular societies are often subject to stereotypical interpretations, where summer tourism – centered on sun, sea, and leisure – overshadows all other dimensions. Despite a vast body of literature, this…
In 2022, GREAL created and published a 3D model of the Roman amphitheatre of Trebula Mutuesca, located in the territory of today’s Monteleone Sabino, in the province of Rieti (Italy). The survey was conducted through aerial drone photogrammetry, using a series of flights carried out at different times with various…
Il gelido Nord. Alcune riflessioni fra geografia, esplorazione e storia dell’Artide [in Italian] Edited by Francesco Battaglini, Luigi Russo, Gianluca Casagrande, 2022ISBN 978-88-946229-1-1 The second volume of the GREAL Reports series brings together diverse voices, insights, and reflections from scholars across various disciplines, with the aim of contributing useful material…
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Yesterday morning, May 10th 2022, GREAL conducted its first UAS-based aerophotogrammetric test over the Roman Villa della Fontanaccia archaeological site, in the mountains near Tolfa. During two flights, for an overall duration of approximately fourty minutes, initial data were gathered and procedures were validated, towards a research and teaching protocol…
Polarquest2018. Relazioni tecniche e di attività [in Italian and english]Edited by Gianluca Casagrande, 2021ISBN 978-88-946229-0-4 This first volume of the GREAL Reports series is dedicated to a selection of studies and activities developed around the Arctic scientific research and communication expedition Polarquest2018, carried out by an international working group aboard…
Paestum’s archaeological park, in Campania region, Italy, hosts the 2021 edition of the “Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico”, a major national event involving research, institutional participation and enterpreneurship in tourism initiatives for historical sites and cultural heritage. UER’s School of Tourism and GREAL participated to the activities on November 25th and…
A few areas of countryside in the Jaén’s region, Andalucia, Spain, are hosting a fieldwork phase in the context of an international research project. The activity is funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Inovación under the ID PID2019-110225GB-I00. Though national in origin, the program is developed by an…
Aug 16, 2021 The Polarquest2021 expedition has successfully completed its seafloor mapping programme today. The Polarquest2021 expedition has successfully completed its seafloor mapping program today, with its last sonar scanning station in Bockfjorden at 79°5N, 13°4E. The crew, directed by sonar specialist Domink Pałgan and assisted by scientific coordinator Gianluca…
After the last aerial survey over the Sallyhamna area in the afternoon of August 16th, Polarquest2021 UAV-based observation campaign has completed its activities. Preliminary data processing has started onboard S/Y Best Explorer as the boat is heading to its next leg at Ny-Ålesund scientific station. The drone mapping was specifically…
Yesterday UAV technical service provider FlyToDiscover delivered to GREAL, after the usual pre-departure preparations, the drone equipment that the laboratory will use during Polarquest2021, in the Arctic, these July and August. The cooperation between the Italian company, based in Rome and led by Sandro Russello, and GREAL, has a long…
Two years after its first operational participation to a research activity in the Svalbard islands, and with the data from a second expedition in Greenland still under analysis, GREAL will be back to the Arctic in a few weeks. In the new programme, GREAL will be involved in expedition Polarquest2021,…
This 1:1 scale 3D model of the Norge airship was created as part of the Shadow Of Norge project, aiming to digitally reconstruct the historical dirigible in its original shape and size. The model was developed using 3DStudio Max, a professional tool for 3D modeling and animation. The reconstruction is…
On April 30th, a Webinar will focus on the technological aspects of airship NORGE’s transpolar flight. The event will take place in the framework of the Shadow of Norge project. Associazione Dirigibili Archimede, in cooperation with GREAL, explores the technical aspects of NORGE’s exploration, and reflects on present-day perspectives…
The Shadow of Norge project successfully continues its international meetings program. In the webinar “Technologies and Museums for story-telling of places and exploration” the focus is on the theme of technologies supporting the enhancement and spreading of knowledge about historical places, travel and exploration. Here is the…
The NORD University of Bodø (Norway) will host a scientific Webinar, open to the general public, on April 15th to remember the 95th anniversary of the expedition of airship NORGE. The event will be chaired by Prof. Steinar Aas, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, and will see the participation of Norwegian…
The first international Webinar of the “Shadow of Norge” initiative was held on April 8th, opening the commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Transpolar Flight (1926). The event was institutionally hosted by the Museo Umberto Nobile of Lauro, hometown to the Italian explorer and was chaired by the…
Kick-off for the “Shadow Of Norge project“, born within the GREAL Laboratory: a series of International Webinars and Cultural Meetings that will celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition (1926-2021) Researchers scholars and institutional representatives, coordinated by GREAL and other partner institutions, will present their contributions to offer…