UNIGIS at AGIT and GI_Forum
Traditionally, the annual GI_Forum and AGIT Symposia at the University of Salzburg from July 4-8 are highlights for the UNIGIS community: more than 100 students and alumni will not only actively participate in conference events, but [...]
Gudrun Wallentin leading Salzburg UNIGIS MSc
Gudrun Wallentin has been promoted to director of studies, UNIGIS MSc at the University of Salzburg from July 1, 2011. Gudrun is joining the UNIGIS Salzburg team from the Institute of GIScience, Austrian Academy of [...]
UNIGIS at Geoinformatik 2011
For the third time UNIGIS presents its distance-learning programs at the 'Geoinformatik', a symposium on GIS with a small trade fair, hosted by the University of Münster (Germany) this year. The UNIGIS-booth serves as meeting [...]
UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2011
The UNIGIS International Association is pleased to announce the next 'UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize' competition. The Academic Excellence Prize, launched by UIA in 2007/08, is awarded on an annual basis to a student, from [...]
UNIGIS professional group in Salzburg started
For the May intake of the UNIGIS professional certificate course, 13 out of 16 new students met in Salzburg to get to know each other and together start into an intensive year of studying. With the exception [...]
UNIGIS en América Latina – first intake 2011
UNIGIS en América Latina is happy to announce its first intake in 2011. 70 students from Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela and Nicaragua were successfully enrolled in the two year UNIGIS master's program at the [...]
UNIGIS Invited to ISPRS WG VI/4 – ISRS Joint International Workshop!
UNIGIS was invited to the International Workshop on 'Multinational Geomatics Capacity Building–Achievements and Challenges' jointly organised by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing WG VI/4 and Indian Society for Remote Sensing, India. The [...]
II Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School. Open your mind!
The II Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School, organized by the GIS and Remote Sensing Center –SIGTE- of the University of Girona, will be held in Girona from June 28 to July 7, 2011. [...]
University of Madras preparing to join UNIGIS Network!
The Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and the University of Madras (India) have entered into an Academic Cooperation Agreement for jointly offering UNIGIS study programmes at the Department of Geography, University [...]
The 8th edition of UNIGIS studies in Kraków, Poland.
Last weekend students of intake 2011 took part in the introductory UNIGIS workshop in Kraków. In such a way the eighth edition of postgraduate studies in Geographic Information Science & Systems started at the Jagiellonian [...]
UNIGIS in Nepal: on track towards launch!
The UNIGIS orientation workshop organised in Kathmandu 'is a further step towards establishing a UNIGIS study centre in Nepal', said Dr. Shahnawaz (Director South & Southeast Asia, UNIGIS International). He elaborated that this collaboration was [...]
52 new students georeferenced at UNIGIS Salzburg
Today, a total of 52 new students in the UNIGIS MSc and UNIGISprofessional certificate programmes finished their introductory orientation workshops at the University of Salzburg. Since intensive communication, mutual support and working in virtually connected [...]
Faculty workshop in Chandigarh
With the aim of supporting and further developing the recently started study center at the Panjab University in Chandigarh (northern India) Prof Josef Strobl und UNIGIS regional director Dr Shahnawaz conducted a faculty workshop on [...]
UNIGIS at Geospatial World Forum
UNIGIS is again supporting the biannual Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad as a key 'knowledge partner'. During award night, Prof Josef Strobl spoke on behalf of the selection jury before prices were handed to recipients by [...]
Top academic honours for UNIGIS Hungary alumnus
On Nov 30, Peter Gyenizse (UNIGIS Hungary 2004) successfully finished his habilitation process, the highest level of academic qualification in his country. The presentation of his scientific work is titled "An investigation of the physical [...]
The 13th edition of UNIGIS Girona Professional Master in GIS Management starts!
The 13th edition is running and almost 70 new students are part of the worldwide UNIGIS community. It is a pleasure to have, year after year, this number of registrations wich notes the success of [...]
UNIGIS at Intergeo Trade Fair, Cologne
The UNIGIS Salzburg team is advising prospective students in their MSc and professional certificate programs at this year's Intergeo exhibit on Cologne, Germany. Interest in obtaining a widely recognized advanced qualification in Geoinformatics / GIScience [...]
1st Latin American GIS education conference
On September 21st, UNIGIS co-organized the first Latin American Conference on GIS-Education (http://www.sigsa.info/lauc2010/edu.html) in cooperation with ESRI. The conference was hosted by ESRI’s Mexican representative SIGSA (http://www.sigsa.info) and brought together GIS-users, teachers and other faculty [...]
Winners of the UIA Academic Excellence Prize 2010
The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) would like to announce this year’s winners of its worldwide Academic Excellence Prize. The Prize, initiated in 2008, is presented to the student, or students, who submits the best MSc [...]
Master Theses Workshop
UNIGIS Salzburg students were attending a September 24/25 workshop presenting and discussing their thesis projects. More than 20 topics ranging across a variety of application domains, from a methodology focus to systems implementation and from [...]