Josef Strobl

UNIGIS Scholarships for Russia&CIS Students
UNIGIS Стипендии для России и СНГ!

The University of Salzburg with its Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS is offering up to 10 partial scholarships for UNIGIS distance learning MSc students for students from Russia and CIS countries. UNIGIS Salzburg is inviting applications for scholarships covering approx. 60% of the Euro 9800.- tuition fee. Following the vision of ‘Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide’, the UNIGIS MSc degree is a highly regarded and widely acknowledged postgraduate qualification offered in English language. Candidates from the Russia / CIS region are offered the opportunity of Russian language consultation, guidance and support. Applications for scholarships will be ranked based upon prior knowledge, …

MSc Thesis – A Winner!

At the ‘Münchner GI-Runde 2015’ annual conference and awards in Munich – a leading geospatial venue for the German language community – UNIGIS graduates over the years have built a strong reputation for excellence and innovative ideas. This was continued by Christoph Schlacher (Graz), winning this year’s top price among master theses with the research he had submitted for his UNIGIS MSc: “Die Vorläufige Bewertung des Hochwasserrisikos – Alternative Ermittlung der Betroffenen in Überflutungsflächen mittels räumlicher Disaggregation” (~ ‘assessment of flood risk – determining population within flood zones through spatial disaggregation’). Congratulations Mr. Schlacher to this outstanding success and recognition …

Success story of UNIGIS Hungary continued …

On September 20th, this year’s group of 12 new UNIGIS candidates met for the first time under the new umbrella of Óbuda University. The Institute of Geoinformatics at the Alba Regia Technical Faculty in Székesfehérvár welcomed a highly motivated and ambitious class composed of surveyors, agricultural and forest engineers, geographers and other disciplines. With this 19th intake UNIGIS Hungary continues to offer advanced education within the UNIGIS International framework, leading students to a formal qualification with a postgraduate certificate and options to obtain international MSc degrees.

UNIGIS Salzburg: the key to geospatial careers

UNIGIS at Z_GIS – University of Salzburg is opening the 2014 fall registration period for online programs in GI/Science! Summer is a period for considering plans and making decisions about future career pathways. Professional development, attaining new qualifications through e.g. continuing education and maybe even distance learning today is key to opening up new career options. The UNIGIS Salzburg program recently has received top accolades by leading GIS industry actors like e.g. Oracle and ESRI, and is closely cooperating with FOSS and international organisations. With alumni from UNIGIS’ 20+ years of record, MSc and certificate awards in GIScience / Geoinformatics …

Academic Recognition for Universidad de Belgrano

The Buenos Aires – based Universidad de Belgrano (UB) has entered an agreement to work towards joining UNIGIS en América Latina as a regional study center. As a first step, a locally implemented ‘diplomatura’ in GIS will be recognized as equivalent with introductory UNIGIS modules, paving a pathway for students to continue towards UNIGIS professional certificate and UNIGIS MSc programs at the University of Salzburg. Mónica Inés Fernández (Dean, UB Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies) together with Bárbara Constantinidis and Martín Orduña led the coordination talks with Richard Resl (UNIGIS en América Latina) and Josef Strobl (Z_GIS, University of …

Rio de Janeiro University Exploring UNIGIS Cooperation

Richard Resl from UNIGIS en América Latina and Josef Strobl from the UNIGIS International Association (UIA) on July 21 were visiting ‘LabGIS’ and the international department of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) to introduce the UNIGIS network mission and practice, and to discuss next steps towards UERJ joining UNIGIS as a new study center for Brazil. LabGIS at the Department of Geology has established a reputation of excellence for applied research as well as for high quality education in basic and advanced GIS methods and technologies, supporting a range of partners and students from a variety of disciplines …

UNIGIS Salzburg receiving ESRI Special Achievement Award

UNIGIS professional program director Christoph Traun presenting the award insignia The University of Salzburg Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS today received special recognition for its successful UNIGIS education program. At the International ESRI User Conference the ‘Special Achievement in GIS’ Award was presented by Jack Dangermond to our education team, acknowledging its contribution to capacity building worldwide, innovation in geospatial education and services leading to professional qualifications. The ‘Special Achievement in GIS’ (SAG) Award every year goes to a distinguished few institutions, and we at Z_GIS are proud to be highlighted this year among academic Geoinformatics researchers and educators worldwide. …

UNIGIS thesis winning award at ETH Zurich

Big time congratulations to Simon Häsler: he not only recently completed his UNIGIS MSc at the University of Salzburg, but also managed to collect the prestigious distinction of ‘Student of the Year’ at ETH Zürich, where his thesis was supervised by Prof Martin Raubal. From the News at ETH Zürich: “In its role as Esri Development Center (EDC) the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation once per year awards the EDC price for the best student thesis for which Esri technologies were used. This year’s price is awarded to Simon Haesler for his thesis about „Erstellung und Evaluation einer service-orientierten Systemarchitektur …

Learning QGIS

You always wanted to extend your GIS software skills towards FOSS products like QGIS? There is no excuse not to start on your own, with excellent learning materials freely available online: One recent  highlight are ‘MOOC’-style online courses: http://foss4geo.org/ Start with https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/LA4DR9 There is an extensive training manual: http://manual.linfiniti.com/en/index.html With video tutorial support: http://qgis-tutorials.mangomap.com/post/79334660226/qgis-video-tutorials-module-1-the-interface And of course documentation: http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html  Plus the invaluable book by Anita Graser: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-qgis-2-0-to-create-maps-and-perform-geoprocessing-tasks/book For sure you will find summer schools, conferences, trainings etc as well! So … just ‘do it’, enjoy the lifelong learning experience, and lots of success with your GIS projects!

Oracle Excellence in Education Award for UNIGIS

During the Oracle Spatial Summit on May 22 2014 in Washington, DC, UNIGIS Salzburg was distinguished as recipient of the Oracle Spatial and Graph Excellence Award in the ‘Education and Research’ category. Xavier Lopez, Senior Director for Oracle Server Technologies presented the award to Prof. Josef Strobl from the Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS, University of Salzburg. In his remarks, Xavier Lopez recognized the worldwide outreach facilitated by UNIGIS distance learning programmes, putting graduate geospatial education within reach of everyone interested. Qualified alumni are the critically important resource to develop geospatial applications and to leverage current and future technologies. The …