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News from UNIGIS in Latin America

  Over the last two months, UNIGIS put considerable effort in expanding its activities in Colombia. Our team from the study center in Cali exhibited at the technology fair ’Geomatica Andina 2012’ which took place between June, 4th and 5th in Bogotá, D.C. presenting the program to an interested audience of GIS-practitioners in Colombia.  On July, 11st Richard Resl, director of UNIGIS in Latin America and Francisco Piedrahita, rector of one of the most prestigious Colombian universities, ICESI in Cali, signed an agreement of cooperation. From now on ICESI will act as official academic partner of UNIGIS in Colombia, giving …

UNIGIS @GEOSummit Bern

Today the biggest conference on geoinformatics in Switzerland came to a successful end. UNIGIS was part of the first time “GEOSummit” which is the successor of the formerly GIS/SIT. The bianual conference and exhibition aims to bring together users, business partner and to a certain degree scientists. For UNIGIS it was definitely the right place to be as there is a growing community of UNIGIS students, alumnis and potentially new students in Switzerland. Together with our Swiss cooperation partner (HSR Rapperswil) we enjoyed the very high frequence at our booth and the friendly and communicative atmosphere. Once again it became …

UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2012

The UNIGIS International Association is pleased to announce this year’s ‘UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize’ competition. The UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize, launched in 2007/08, is awarded on an annual basis to a student, from one of the UNIGIS Centers Worldwide, who submitted the most outstanding MSc Dissertation/Thesis, or paper based on a thesis, during the previous academic year. The criteria used by the evaluation committee include: technical quality, quality of literature review, relevance, presentation and originality. The standard of work submitted last year was excellent, and similarly high standards are expected this time. The competition for the 2012 Prize is …

UNIGIS Salzburg – Communication matters

“Especially in distance study programs like UNIGIS a key factor of personal success is getting to know fellow students in the beginning and to develop a culture of discussion and mutual support in learning processes” explained Prof. Josef Strobl, Director of UNIGIS Salzburg and Chair of UNIGIS International to a group of 14 new UNIGIS professional students participating in an introductory workshop last weekend in Salzburg. At latest by the dinner in a traditional pub in the city center the ice was broken. No matter if this was a result of the mentioned advice or just a natural consequence of …

UNIGIS programmes launched in Nepal!

UNIGIS@Kathmandu (NEPAL) takes pride in announcing the first open admissions period for the UNIGIS professional diploma and UNIGIS MSc in Geographical Information Science and Systems. The two UNIGIS study programmes are being offered in Nepal by the Kathmandu Forestry College in collaboration with the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria. The academic certification / degree will be awarded by the University of Salzburg, Austria. The Ministry of Education, Govt. of Nepal has already confirmed their endorsement of UNIGIS qualifications. This academic collaboration between Nepalese and Austrian institutions aims at providing internationally standardised high quality Geoinformatics and GIScience education to …

UNIGIS participated in ASEMUNDUS Seminar!

The ASEMUNDUS Networking Seminar co-financed by the European Commission under Erasmus-Mundus programme was orgnised in Bangkok, Thailand on 2nd and 3rd April, 2012.Dr. Shahnawaz (Director S/SE Asia, UNIGIS International) was invited to the seminar and he informed the participants about UNIGIS network in general and UNIGIS initiatives in the region in specific. The seminar participants were highly impressed with the UNIGIS philosophy of ‘Educating GI-professionals Worldwide’ and several institutions enquired about the possibilities of becomming a part of this excellent network offering GIScience education through online distance learning programmes.

GISopen conference in Szekesfehervar: a qualitative contribution from UNIGIS graduates.

The GISopen conference was initiated in 1997, just after the first UNIGIS intake was graduated from the University of West Hungary, Faculty of Geoinformatics. The annual GISopen conference is the longest GI related conference series in Hungary. The main aim is to involve the faculty alumni into the active lifelong learning process, to give a forum for the ex-students and to offer them an opportunity to share their experience after several years of professional activity. From 12 to 14 of March 2012, the 16th GIS open conference was organised in Szekesfehervar. The number of participants was 200+ like in the …

UNIGIS in Malaysia!

Facilitating an ongoing process of integrating institutions from Southeast Asia into the international UNIGIS network of universities, UNIGIS representatives again participated in this year’s Malaysia Geospatial Forum organised at Melaka, Malaysia on 6th and 7th March, 2012. Dr. Shahnawaz (Director, UNIGIS S/E Asia) managed an exhibit booth shared with Geomatika College International, as well as organised a series of workshops for students, teaching faculty as well as professionals engaged at various institutions and organisations.

Open Web Services & Web Mapping Applications Summer School Girona

From 9th to 13th of July 2012 will take place the 3rd Summer School dedicated to Opensource GIS in Girona, organized by SIGTE of the University of Girona, and the collaboration of OpenGeo and the Geospatial Institute of the University of Nottingham.From the start, the aim of this initiative to meet the GIS professional demands related to free and open solutions. The Summer School 2012 will be focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web Applications. If you are interested in application development and creation of web map services using the most widely used free …

New edition of UNIGIS studies started at Jagiellonian University, Poland.

Last weekend students of intake 2012 arrived to Kraków to take part in their first two-day UNIGIS workshop.First day was dominated by rather non-GI issues like studies program and organization as well as e-learning educational and technical aspects. In the afternoon students were encouraged to build “learning alliances” by getting know each other during students’ self-presentation and common dinner in one of restaurants in the Kraków Old Town.Second day was devoted mainly to GIS software used during the studies, which was presented and tested by students in the computer laboratories of Institute of Geography and Spatial Management.We hope that students …