Belgian Interuniversity Mapathon 2026
Brussels, Belgium
ULB Solbosch Campus - Building U - UB4.126
Help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their work in crisis areas!
In order to cope with crisis situations quickly and offer help efficiently, humanitarian agencies need maps. Hence, MSF and the Red Cross have joined forces in 2014 to launch the Missing Maps project, along with the OpenStreetMap Foundation. All over the world the project recruits volunteers to map areas where the risk of natural disasters, epidemics and conflicts is greatest.
This year, from March 23 till March 26, the Belgian National Committee of Geography organizes the sixth edition of its National Mapathon event, in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders (MSF/AZG) and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Several universities in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia open their doors for a large collective mapping event. Would you like to contribute an hour or longer? Do not miss this opportunity!
The only thing you need as a volunteer is a computer and an Internet connection. It is not difficult. In no time you are working as a road mapper. PCs will be available, but feel free to bring your own laptop and mouse if you prefer to work on your own computer
When: March 23-26
Where: Antwerp, Brussels, Gent, Leuven, Liège, Louvain-La-Neuve and Namur
For UAntwerpen, ULB, VUB, UGent and UNamur, registration is possible by reserving a spot on the Evenbrite page. The other universities use their own registration system.