UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize – 2009 Awards announced
Christof Amelunxen from UNIGIS Salzburg has been announced as the winner of the worldwide UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2009. His thesis titled ”An Approach to Geocoding based on Volunteered Spatial Data” not only led to [...]
Annual Meeting – Girona, Spain
The Spanish/Catalan UNIGIS site in Girona again hosted the annual UNIGIS worldwide network meeting on Nov 13/14, 2009. Representatives from 11 university partner sites were discussing eLearning didactics, curriculum development and new learning materials as [...]
Two new UNIGIS study centres in India
UNIGIS India (www.unigis.net/India) has launched programmes at 2 new study centres in India. The new centres have been established at Panjab University, Chandigarh (www.unigis.net/PU_Chandigarh) and the All India Institute for Local Self Government (www.unigis.net/AIILSG_India). The [...]
UIA Academic Excellence Prize – Award Ceremony
Andre Coleman (UNIGIS – Free University of Amsterdam), the winner of the Academic Excellence Prize 2008 presented his high quality MSc thesis at the GI_Forum 2009 in Salzburg. His dissertation entitled: “An Adaptive Landscape Classification [...]
Geospatial Education Forum at Map Asia 2009
As a ’Knowledge partner’ in Map Asia 2009 (18-20 August, 2009) UNIGIS is coordinating an education forum on the theme ’From Spatial Thinking to GI Competence’ on Aug 19 in Singapore. This forum has been [...]
UNIGIS MSc – New Distance Learning Node in Australia
The international UNIGIS MSc postgraduate degree is now offered in Australia through the UNIGIS (www.unigis.net) study centre at the University of Canberra, ACT. Students are invited to enrol in a joint programme combining the capacities [...]
UNIGIS @ ESRI San Diego Conferences
The week started with a UNIGIS -related highlight, Prof. Henk Scholten opening the Education UC with a keynote on "The Role of GIS in the Development of Spatial Thinking" - leading to his 'Lifetime Achievement [...]
IGU-Urban Geography Commission Conference
UNIGIS is conducting a GIS Education Workshop at the ’Emerging Urban Transformations 2009 Conference - Multilayered Cities and Urban Systems, organised by the IGU - Urban Geography Commission from 30th July to 9th August 2009, [...]
UNIGIS at HealthGIS – Hyderabad!
UNIGIS is organising a workshop during the Third International Conference on HealthGIS which will be held from 24th to 26th July, 2009 in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Shahnawaz from the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), Salzburg University, [...]
UIA Academic Excellence Prize 2009
The UNIGIS Int’l Association is pleased to announce the launch of its 2009 Academic Excellence Prize. The Academic Excellence Prize, launched by UIA in 2007/8, is awarded on an annual basis to a student, from [...]
ISEGI-UNL: Seminário MSc em C&SIG – 8ª Edição – 30 e 31 de Janeiro de 2009
Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação has the pleasure to invite you to attend the GIS&C MSc - 8th Edition Seminar, to be held in ISEGI-UNL on January 30-31, 2009. The event is free [...]
UNIGIS Kraków – new MSc Students
On Saturday, February 15th, 11 new students started their MSc studies at the Jagiellonian University in Poland and were taking part in the opening UNIGIS workshop. The new group has mostly environmental academic backgrounds, but very [...]
ENERegion – Summer School on “Regional Potentials for Renewable Energy Generation” (June 29 – July 10, 2009)
The ENERegion International Summer School is dedicated to the theme of "Regional Potentials for Renewable Energy Generation" and is hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).In a set of lectures, group work and practicals [...]
Asian Institute of Technology – UNIGIS Workshop
On 1 February 2009 a two day UNIGIS-AIT workshop on GIS and GIScience started at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Around 25 people attended and found the exposure to the broad range [...]
2009 MSc class launched in Salzburg
The already 16th annual group of UNIGIS MSc students met for their kickoff-workshop from January 5-7 at the University of Salzburg, Austria. This German language program has established itself as the gold standard of postgraduate [...]
Winners of the UIA Academic Excellence Prize 2008
The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) would like to announce the first winners of its Academic Excellence Prize. The Prize, initiated in 2008, is presented to the student, or students, who submits the best MSc thesis [...]
UNIGIS UK – ESRI Presentation
Richard Atkinson (UNIGIS UK) recently gave a presentation at ESRI's 'Europe, Middle East and Africa User Conference', held in London. In his paper, Richard reviews the experiences we have gained by delivering our postgraduate GIS [...]
Postgraduate Distance Education through UNIGIS@AIT
The UNIGIS@AIT Centre at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok invites applications for the next intake of continuing education courses in GI Science and Technology. UNIGIS@AIT was established in 2007 in cooperation between [...]
Summer School: “Urban 3D Modelling”, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
The “Urban 3D Modelling” UNIGIS Summer School will be attended by 40 students from abroad and 10 from Hungary. For 27 August 2008, a one-day conference has beenarranged in order to give a top quality overview [...]
UNIGIS Girona’s promotional video
UNIGIS Girona seized the opportunity of the 10th anniversary to release the UNIGIS Girona’s video. This video wants to present and to inform about the authentic meaning of the UNIGIS Programme (philosophy, characteristics, advantages,…), it [...]