Conoscere la ASG
The Swiss Geographical Association (ASG) is the umbrella organization for geographers in Switzerland. Ordinary members of the ASG are the specialist geographical societies, the regional societies and the geographical University institutes in Switzerland.
The statutory objectives of the ASG include:
- Networking the various fields of the discipline: science, teaching, practice
- Promoting dialog between the different regions and languages of Switzerland
- Participation of geography in current socio-political debates
In its current mandate, the ASG pursues the following specific objectives:
- Promotion of international exchange
- Strengthening cooperation between the Swiss language regions
- Promotion of mid-level faculty and ethnic diversity at universities
- Promoting concrete measures in the context of climate change
Instruments
- GeoAgenda is the ASG magazine, published four times a year
- Thematic groups in the fields of human geography, physical geography, school geography and applied geography
- Support of young researchers to participate in congresses abroad
Links
- Member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), which co-finances the ASG via the Geosciences Platform
- Member of the International Geographical Union (IGU)
- Institutional sponsor of the journal Geographica Helvetica
ASG Archive
The ASG keeps an archive at the University of Neuchâtel in which historical documents of Swiss geography are collected.
If you have geographical or ASG documents, please contact us or pass them on to us so that we can archive them.
Thank you very much for your collaboration!