Josef Strobl

GIS for the Future of Central Asia – May 15-17

This is the motto of the 2nd Central Asia GIS Conference – GISCA’08 held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan May 15-17, 2008. The Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), Salzburg University and UNIGIS are organising this conference jointly with the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA) and with support from the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet. The organising committee invites active participation in this international event and submission of presentations and papers. The main objectives of this conference are to bring together GIS academics in the Central Asian countries and to encourage international cooperation and knowledge exchange in GIS education. A particular highlight of …

MSc thesis awarded ‘Förderpreis Runder Tisch GIS’

Marcel Droz from the Geoinformation Office, Kanton of Berne has graduated from UNIGIS Salzburg in 2007 and now has won the prestigious ‘young researchers award’ from the Munich ‘GIS Round Table’ for his thesis on assessing landscape aesthetics in the UNESCO World Heritage site Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschenhorn (German language abstract). Mr Droz has received this award through stiff competition against a total of 30 submissions. Congratulations!Details: MSc research award

UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize

The UNIGIS International Association is announcing a new ‘UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Price’ for graduates from UNIGIS MSc programmes worldwide. This price will be awarded annually, and candidates will be nominated by a UNIGIS partner institution based on outstanding master theses / dissertations.Alumni having received their degree award between Sept 1 2007 and Aug 31, 2008 are invited to enquire about submission details with their local UNIGIS site.The UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Price will recognize the top achievements among the many excellent master theses accepted every year at UNIGIS universities around the world as one of students’ final steps towards …

New MSc Students at Salzburg University

The 2008 intake for the German language UNIGIS MSc programme at Salzburg University started with a group of 57 new students. With very diverse academic and professional backgrounds, all share the common goal of achieving an advanced qualification in Geographic Information Science & Systems in order to stimulate their careers and to enhance their professional outlook.Over an intense three day workshop from Jan 3-5, everybody got together to establish a solid foundation for communication throughout the two year distance learning course. Salzburg University is very proud to welcome such an ambitious class: “We are looking forward to supporting emerging future …

Symposium: GIS Education in Latin America

The UNIGIS centre at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador has announced a Symposium on GIS Education in Latin America to be held on March 26/27, 2008, followed by opportunities for field trips and a visit to an ecology research station in the Amazon. For further information and registration please contact Richard Resl or Leo Zurita, UNIGIS-USFQ, América Latina, unigis.admin@usfq.edu.ec , ++593-2-2971743.

Asian Institute of Technology – UNIGIS site

After a launch event in September 2007, the UNIGIS distance learning program at AIT in Bangkok is now actively getting underway. The course director Dr Nitin Tripathi from AIT’s School of Engineering and Technology is prepared to discuss this new educational offering with prospective students, and he emphasizes: “AIT now has an opportunity to reach out to a new audience through UNIGIS@AIT”.The UNIGIS program at AIT is a joint academic initiative with Salzburg University, Austria. Supported by the Salzburg University Center for Geoinformatics, depending on the program track chosen successful students will be awarded either a European MSc degree, or …

UNIGIS @ MapAfrica

UNIGIS is organising a GIS education workshop at the 2007 MapAfrica conference in Cape Town. Speakers from a range of institutions and countries are contributing with their views on curriculum development, building of GIS awareness and didactics of GIS learning environments.In line with the conference motto of ‘Building Geospatial Capacity and Infrastructure in Africa’ Josef Strobl from UNIGIS Salzburg has set the stage with a plenary keynote on ‘Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge – Managing our Future’.