5^TH OF SEPTEMBER (TUESDAY)

9:00 - 16:00 "Gender in Cartography" Meeting (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)
14:00 - 17:00 Registration for the Conference (Secretariat of the Department of Cartography, room number 783, 7^th Floor)

6^TH OF SEPTEMBER (WEDNESDAY)

8:00 - 9:15 Registration (Secretariat of the Department of Cartography, room number 783, 7^th Floor)
9:30 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)
- István Klinghammer, Rector of the "Eötvös Loránd" University, Head of the Department of Cartography.
- Árpád Papp-Váry, President of the Hungarian National Committee of ICA.
- Jacqueline Anderson, Chair of "Cartography and Children" Commission.

Paper:
10:30 - 11:00 - "An Atlas designed for Children: The Electronic Approach and Reality". Jacqueline Anderson (Concordia University, Canada), Janine LeSann (Brazil), Jean Carriere (University of Québec, Canada).

11:00 - 11:30 Opening Exhibition (Room number 785, 7^th Floor) and Coffee Break

Papers: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

Chair: Henry Castner (Queen´s University, USA)

11:30 - 12:00 - "Our experience in extraterrestrial mapping for children". Kira B. Shingareva, Bianna V. Krasnopevtseva (Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Russia).
12:00 - 12:30 - "Children´s understanding of Generalisation transformations". Vassili Filippakopoulou, Byron Nakos, Evanthia Michaelidou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece).

12:30 - 14:00 Reception at the Department of Cartography (Secretariat, room number 783, 7^th Floor)

Papers: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

Chair: Jean Carriere (University of Québec, Canada)

14:00 - 14:30 - "Knowledge of maps and extraction information from them in the Bulgarian schools". Temenoujka Bandrova, Valentina Nikolova (University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Bulgaria).
14:30 - 15:00 - "A Controlled Experiment in Teaching Physical Map Skills to Grade 4 Pupils in Elementary Schools". Shimshon Livni, Varda Bar (Hebrew University, Israel).
15:00 - 15:30 - "A Rio de Janeiro School Atlas: a proposal for a local study". Tania Targino (Municipal Secretariat of Education, Brazil)

16:00 Visit to the National Museum.

7^TH OF SEPTEMBER (THURSDAY)

Papers: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

Chair: Jacqueline Anderson (Concordia University, Canada)

9:00 - 9:25 - "Mapping as a Challenge to improve active readers investigating Children's Geographical Skills". Ana Francisca de Azevedo (University of Minho, Portugal).
9:25 - 9:50 - "Graphs: make and understand". Prof. Dra. Elza Yasuko Passini (State University of Maringa, Brazil).
9:50 - 10:15 - "Atlas of the Municipality of Santa Helena, Brazil". Miriam H. Zaar, Vera B. Köhler (State University of Maringa, Brazil)

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

Papers: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

10:45 - 11:25 - "CD-ROM: Atlas of Switzerland Interactive and Swiss Map Trophy". Hans-Uli Feldmann (Swiss Society of Cartography, Switzerland)
11:25 - 11:50 - "Tourist Map for Children". Bettina Balassa ("Eötvös Loránd" University, Hungary).
11:50 - 12:15 - "Hungarian Homepage About Maps for Children: the last chapter". Jesús Reyes ("Eötvös Loránd" University, Hungary).
12:15 - 12:40 -"Comparison between the legend system of the different School Atlas levels: A Survey. Present place of cartography in geography teaching. Different levels". Zsuzsa Turcsán (Cartographia Ltd., Hungary).

12:40 - 14:30 - Lunch on your own

14:30 - Practical Presentations: (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

Chair: Shimshon Livni (Hebrew University, Israel).

14:30 - 14:50 -"An Atlas designed for Children: The Initial Pilot". Jacqueline Anderson (Concordia University, Canada), Janine LeSann (Brazil), Jean Carriere (University of Québec, Canada).
14:50 - 15:10 -"What the maps tell for us… :An Educational CD-ROM Project". Zsolt Török ("Eötvös Loránd" University, Hungary).
15:10 - 15:30 -"A Teacher´s Introduction to the Barbara Petchenik International World Map Design Competition". Henry W. Castner (Queen´s University, USA)
15:30 - 15:50 - "Complementary Methods in Teaching Geography: Hands-on materials and computer software". István Lénárt (Lénárt Bt., Hungary)

18:00 - Dinner in a typical Hungarian restaurant. ("Szegedi Halászcsárdás" restaurant, Bartók Béla út 1.)

8^TH OF SEPTEMBER (FRIDAY)

10:00-16:30 - CCC Meeting (Room number 721, 7^th Floor)

FREE PROGRAM

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