Changing Horizons in Geography Education - HERODOT Network ...

Figure 2. Present at Annual Congresses per entityThis does not show a clear geographical pattern in the development of the EGEAnetwork. But we see very active countries and some ‘blank spots’ on the EGEA map.The Netherlands have been active from the beginning, with Utrecht and Amsterdamas main entities. All Dutch cities with academic geography studies are active in theEGEA network. The number of Dutch participants at congresses has always beenhigh. Germany has the most entities and often the most participants at congresses.Germany is of course a big country with around 44 geography departments. Theactive EGEA entities in Germany are changing. Germany has many entities that‘died’ and have been ‘revived’ again (for example Hamburg, Münster, Göttingen,Bremen, Bonn, Hannover, Mainz). Poland has been active and relatively stable fromthe beginning, with Krakow and Warsaw that have always played an important rolein the network. The Czech Republic has been active in the early days of the EGEAnetwork but at the moment there is no EGEA entity there any more. Bratislava inSlovakia has recently been revived again.Finland has been active from the beginning with several entities, only Oulumanaged to survive over the years. Scandinavia has been almost absent over theyears. In the very beginning and since very recently Sweden is on the EGEA map. TheBaltic States have two very active entities, with Tartu in Estonia active from almostthe start of EGEA. In Russia, Saint Petersburg has a long EGEA history, Moscow has198