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Once again: UNIGIS professional attracts practitioners from near and far.

After a very successful last year in terms of student registrations for the UNIGIS professional certificate in Salzburg, the popularity of this application-oriented GIS study program offered by the Centre of Geoinformatics is continuing in 2012. Most of this year’s first group of students attended the introductory workshop a few days ago to ‘dive into’ an innovative and partly unfamiliar learning environment, and getting to know fellow students and UNIGIS faculty. The broad range of participants’ background domains  indicate the integrative character of spatial information science. Beyond that, a stimulating atmosphere for collaborative learning not only for students, but for the entireUNIGIS …

UNIGIS joining FIG as Academic Member

UNIGIS is proud to announce that at the latest Council Meeting of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), the Council decided to welcome UNIGIS as an Academic Member. FIG was founded in Paris in 1878 and is the premier international organization representing the interests of surveyors worldwide. It is a federation of the national member associations and covers the whole range of professional fields within the global surveying community. It provides an international forum for discussion and development aiming to promote professional practice and standards. Academic membership links universities or their faculties or departments, that are responsible for surveying education …

UNIGIS workshop of intake 2010 in Kraków, Poland.

Last weekend almost 50 students of UNIGIS intake 2010 arrived to Kraków to take part in their fourth and last UNIGIS workshop. They were eager to meet each other and to strengthen their learning motivation for last three months of their studies.Apart of the practical classes in remote sensing they attended lectures discussing new trends in GISience and worked in groups on the collaborative project issues.Equally important to the ‘GIS’ part of thee workshop were more pedagogically oriented classes dealing with students learning styles, their feedback regarding UNIGIS obligatory modules and showing the results achieved by group and each student. …

Geospatial World Forum 2012 – UNIGIS as Co-Sponsor!

UNIGIS International is a Co-Sponsor of the Geospatial World Forum’ 2012 which will be organised from 23rd to 27th April, 2012 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.Josef Strobl (Chair, UNIGIS International) has been invited to share his ideas, experiences and vision about ‘Evolving Industry-Institution Network for Capacity Building’ in GIScience & Systems. This exclusive session involves several eminent speakers including A P J Abdul Kalam (11th President, Republic of India) and Jack Dangermond (Founder and President, ESRI Inc., Redlands, California, USA). As the premium global geospatial industry event, Geospatial World Forum will bring various stakeholders, service providers, policy makers as well as users …

UNIGIS anual network meeting in Equador

The Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador hosted the anuual UNIGIS worldwide network meeting on October 27/28. UNIGIS partners were discussing about the tighter worldwide integration of curricula, mutual recognition of credits and development of shared modules covering specialized subjects. Congratulations to Richrd Ressl and the UNIGIS Latin America team for managing a very succesfull meeting!

UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize – 2011 Awards announced

Hugo Martins from UNIGIS Lisbon has been announced as the winner of the worldwide UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2011. His thesis titled ”SIGLA WEBGIS PORTAL: An Open Source Web-based GIS application for the Portuguese Bluetongue Entomological Surveillance Program” was voted by the International Review Board as the best UNIGIS thesis this year. Stephanie Brand from UNIGIS Salzburg finished a very close second in a highly competitive finish. She submitted a thesis “Roof surface classification with hyperspectral and laser scanning data. An assessment of Spectral Angle Mapper and Support Vector Machines”. In the third place is Peter Witt from UNIGIS Manchester, …

UNIGIS at National GIScience Symposium in Indonesia!

UNIGIS was invited to the 2nd ‘Simposium Nasional Sains Geinformasi 2011’ (2nd National Symposium on Geoinformation Science) organised at the National University of Indonesia i.e. Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta on 27/28 October 2011. Dr. Shahnawaz (Director UNIGIS S/E Asia) gave an extended presentation on ‘Empowering GIScience Learners through UNIGIS Online Distance Education’. Besides introducing the principles, activities, study programmes and experiences of UNIGIS, Dr. Shahnawaz emphasized that UNIGIS has the vision of ‘educating GIS-professionals worldwide’ and the mission is to integrate all the major countries into the UNIGIS network.

The 14th edition of UNIGIS Girona Profesional Master starts succesfully

This new edition has more than 50 students who become part of the worldwide UNIGIS community. Year after year, the number of registration notes the success of our Programme, adapted to the emerging needs and demands more professional environment GIS. We train professionals capable of managing, implementing and developing Geographic Information Systems to address and resolve the needs and demands of the professional world.UNIGIS Girona team will work hard in order to guarantee the success and recognition of UNIGIS training offer. UNIGIS Girona website

UNIGIS at Asia Geospatial Forum 2011!

The only international academic exhibitor was UNIGIS at the Asia Geospatial Forum ’2011 held in Jakarta, Indonesia during 17-19 October. The director of UNIGIS network in S/E Asia, Dr. Shahnawaz, received a large number of visitors and informed them about the UNIGIS programmes of online distance education in Geographical Information Science (GISc). The majority of the visitors came from several institutions, organisations and companies located in various parts of Indonesia, and from China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam etc. Many visitors expressed concern about and discussed the employment opportunities and challenges young people of the ASEAN region are going …

UNIGIS Salzburg – New Intake

Aiming to become GIS professionals after an intensive year of studying, a group of 17 professionals from a variety of application domains like archaeology or sea surveying started the UNIGIS professional program with an introductory workshop in Salzburg. As good as the weather was the overall atmosphere within the group – the UNIGIS team wishes a good start…