The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) was established in 1998, with a mission to promote teaching and research on geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic information science at the European level and to ensure the continuation of the networking activities that emerged as a result of the European GIS (EGIS) Conferences and the European Science Foundation GISDATA Scientific Programmes. AGILE seeks to ensure that the views of the geographic information teaching and research community are represented in the discussions that take place on future European research agenda, and it also provides a permanent scientific forum where geographic information researchers can meet and exchange ideas and experiences at the European level.

The founders of AGILE believed that membership should be at the laboratory level, ...