U_lecture April 25 6-7pm CET: Mapping Wilderness by Dr Steve Carver
GIS approaches to mapping wilderness: quantifying the qualitative Monday 25 April 2016, 6-7 PM (CET)Dr Steve Carver, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds Free web lecture Register here Throughout early human history, wilderness has been a place [...]
2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference Girona (Spain) 24-29 May
This year, the Spanish FOSS4G (Jornadas de SIG Libre) organized by SIGTE (University of Girona) will held the 2nd edition of the International QGIS User and Developer Conference, as well as a QGIS Hack Fest. [...]
UNIGIS Portugal / NOVA IMS First International GEOINT Program to Achieve USGIF Accreditation
NOVA Information Management School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA IMS), located in Lisbon, Portugal, has been added to the growing list of USGIF-accredited GEOINT programs. Through the USGIF Academic Accreditation program, colleges and universities around the globe have the opportunity [...]
Summer School opportunity: Smart Cities
21 - 29 August 2016 at TU Wien The concept of Smart City is promising: The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities highlights the opportunities to link and upgrade infrastructures, technologies and services [...]
GI Forum 2016 Call for Posters Deadline May 1st
This year’s GI_Forum motto is “open : spatial : interfaces”. Take the opportunity to actively shape the program of the GI_Forum by presenting your work as part of our poster session. A poster presentation is [...]
Enter your Hexagon Smart M.App in the IGNITE competition!
The deadline for the Hexagon IGNITE Challenge is May 1st. We encourage our students to participate in this contest and create the M.App of the future. Please contact your local UNIGIS Coordinator about this challenge [...]
UNIGIS Workshop in Kathmandu!
An intensive workshop with alumni, current students and instructors of UNIGIS@Kathmandu was organised on 13-14 March, 2016 at Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL), Nepal. The workshop focussed on two major objectives: 1. enhancing interaction among the above [...]
Call to join The Indonesian Peat Prize to establish a national standard for mapping peatlands
The Indonesian Peat Prize is an ambitious, collaborative prize for finding a more accurate, faster and affordable method of mapping the extent and thickness of Indonesian peatlands. A $1 million prize purse will be awarded [...]
UNIGIS UK presents new U_Lectures spring 2016
UNIGIS UK has published the new U_Lecture series for the spring 2016 season. Interesting topics and speakers have been selected such as disease ecosystems in Tanzania, mapping wilderness, and assessing land degradation and desertification. In [...]
UNIGIS promoting Youth Forum at GSI’2016, Noida!
The UNIGIS@India team led by Dr. Shahnawaz (Director, UNIGIS S/E Asia) played a prominent role in this year's 'GeoSmart India' conference and exhibition held from 1st to 3rd March, 2016 at the India Expo Centre [...]
Save the date: 25th May Young Professionals Forum GWF Rotterdam
‘Making a Difference in Geospatial Industry’ Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 0900-1800 hrs UNIGIS is a partner in the Young Professionals Forum at Geospatial World Forum Conference in Rotterdam. The Young Professional Forum aims to provide [...]
UNIGIS MSc 2016 successfully launched in Salzburg
Personal interaction with fellow students and the UNIGIS teaching team was one of the main foci of the 2-day introductory workshop held in Salzburg. This was complemented with an overview of information on study administration [...]
UNIGIS 2016: Info-Webinar zur Studienberatung
Sie haben einen Beruf und wollen trotzdem an der Universität studieren? Sie arbeiten vielleicht sogar schon mit GIS Werkzeugen und wollen die 'Konzepte dahinter' besser verstehen? Sie haben berufliche Pläne oder sind einfach nur neugierig [...]
Running ArcGIS 10 on Windows 10 There are a lot of complaints on web fora from people trying to run ArcGIS 10.x on a Windows 10 OS. One complaint that frequently can be read is [...]
New Board UNIGIS International Association installed
UIA Board members 2016: Jasper Dekkers, Gemma Boix, Graham Smith, Jacek Kozak, Josef Strobl The UNIGIS International Association has a new composition of its board. Dr. Jasper Dekkers, already a board member in his role as [...]
Sign up for tomorrow’s free U_Lecture about Minecraft in Schools (5-6PM CET)
Is Minecraft a useful teaching tool? Researchers at SPINlab (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) are trying to find the answer to this question. Their focus group are teachers who use Minecraft in the classroom in three Dutch [...]
UNIGIS Salzburg @ Capturing Reality Forum
The Capturing Reality Forum took place at the Salzburg Congress in Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 November 2015. The Forum provided an inspiring platform for professionals to meet, learn and share ideas with industry’s best with a focus on technologies of [...]
UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2015
Winners of the UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2015 UNIGIS UK celebrates its 25th anniversary of the first intake in Manchester on October 22-24. During this meeting the UNIGIS International Association (UIA) announced the winners of its [...]
West is up? Nevermind!
Meeting for an introductory workshop in Salzburg last weekend, our new UNIGIS professional students were already perfectly working together making THEIR map. It consists of 23 (quite active and human 😉 ) symbols, representing 23 [...]
Upcoming U_Lecture on Smart Mobility & Geodata October 21, 5-6 PM
Wed October 21, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CET): "Smart Mobility and Geodata" Dr. Marianne Linde, member Board of Directors Geodan Gerrit Schipper, specialist in information science and automotive industry In this edition of the [...]