Venue: Maison de l'Océan, 195 rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
 
This ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet (https://vimeo.com/event/2248280/0dfc014e2e) and in the amphitheatres (2A and 3, Panthéon Sorbonne site)

Master of Ceremonies: Laure Noualhat, journalist, essayist 
 

• 2:00 pm               Video clip to launch the ceremony, opening by Laure Noualhat

 
Opening adresses and speech
 

• 2:10 pm             Address by the Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, Ms Florence Berthout 
   
• 2:15 pm             Speech by the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Ms Marie-Christine Lemardeley
   
• 2:20 pm            Speech by the President of the University of Paris 1, Ms Christine Neau-Leduc
   
• 2:25 pm            Speech by the President of the CNFG Amaël Cattaruzza
   
• 2:30 pm            Speech by the Presidents of the Congress Organising Committee, Ms Nathalie Lemarchand, Mr Antoine Le Blanc, Mr Jérôme Verny
   
• 2:35 pm            Speech by the President of the IGU Union, Mike Meadows
   
• 2:40 pm            Speech by Mrs Véronique Roger-Lacan, Ambassador of France to UNESCO
   
• 2:45 pm            Video message from Mr Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council
   
• 2:50 pm            Video message from His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco
   
• 2:55 pm             Video interlude 100 years of IGU

 

Keynote speakers 
 

• 3:15 pm               Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO
   
• 3:25 pm              Joos Droogleever-Fortuyn, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam
                               Gender and Diversity in Geography
                               Studying, teaching and practicing equality and diversity in geography
   
• 3:35 pm              Valérie Masson Delmotte, paleoclimatologist, research director at CEA and co-chair of IPCC group n°1 
   
• 3:45 pm              Emerging Thoughts in Geography by winners of the CNFG thesis award:  
  
                              Alizé Berthier, PhD: "Urban birds? The conditions of a human-animal cohabitation in the Greater Paris ".
  
                              Ninon Blond, PhD: "Holocene sedimentary dynamics and agricultural terraces in the Eastern Tigray Mountains (Ethiopia):
                              evolution, trajectories and functioning of a palimpsest landscape for 8,500 years".
  
                               Laura Corsi, PhD: "Producing a geographic magazine on the Ponant islands: mediation between research, territories and television.
   
• 4:00 pm              Musical interlude, by the Albaricate company. French song / Sign languages
   
• 4:20 pm              International Geography Olympiad Medal Ceremony
  
                               Welcome address by Alexis Alamel, Sciences Po Rennes, chair LOC IGEO -2022 
  
                               Presentation of the gold medals by Susan Lomas, Co-Chair, IGU Olympiad Task Force
  
                              Handover to Indonesia
   
• 5:00 pm            End of ceremony