EUROGEO promotes the importance of geographical education and spatial thinking as a contribution towards the development of a better understanding of our world and therefore global citizenship. By doing so, EUROGEO encourages the development of a greater global awareness through the medium of geography and an increase in mutual knowledge and understanding.

EUROGEO, in affiliation with other organisations, has produced a large number of publications and has organised geography conferences, meetings and workshops on a regular basis. Representatives of national and regional professional educational associations have been actively involved in EUROGEO.

EUROGEO also supports those seeking to establish or organise national geography associations and those that promote geography as an academic discipline and geographers in the workplace.

It is clear that spatial skills and geographical information are increasingly important especially in Cloud-based, open data environments. The roles that geography and geographers play are being challenged by these new geo-opportunities. Those involved with EUROGEO are seeking to monitor, support and promote these developments.

EUROGEO is a membership-based professional society governed by an elected Presidium. It operates mainly within Europe but increasingly has an international / global remit.

EUROGEO cooperates with many other international institutions and associations including the AAG, SEAGA and the International Geographical Union (IGU).

Since 1987 EUROGEO has had participatory status in the Council of Europe. In 2017 UN ECOSOC granted EUROGEO special consultative status for United Nations.

EUROGEO works on a range of innovative activities and projects many including the use of innovative digital technologies in different sectors of education and focusing on learning and teaching with Cloud-based tools. EUROGEO has also been involved as coordinator or partner in more than 30 major EU projects in areas related to Erasmus Plus digital projects. EUROGEO’s Erasmus+ projects have been selected 6 times as Good Practice including GEOLAND, having obtained a score of 96/100 at the final evaluation. In 2020 EUROGEO has received a Jean Monnet award for associations for its longstanding work on Geography, Citizenship and Democracy in a digital age.

EUROGEO -with more than 400 individuals and organisations as members and the association links to over 12,000 contacts in Europe and more than 2,000 beyond Europeis the leading organisation in Europe for geography teacher training from an international approach, and particularly for continuous education and in-service training, evidenced by a long story of almost 50 years.