Winners of the UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize
The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) is honoured to announce the winners of its 2014 Academic Excellence Prize: This award, initiated in 2008, is presented to the student, or students, nominated by their UNIGIS sites for [...]
Start learning the language of space!
No matter if you develop agrarian insurance products, maintain facility networks, provide data for community planning or do research on golden eagles: space matters. The real world doesn’t happen on a needles tip. It requires [...]
Upcoming u_Lecture Webinars
UNIGIS u_Lecture webinars are presented by invited speakers from academia, the GI industry, public administration, NGOs and other actors in the field of Geoinformatics and GIScience. Although this online lecture series is primarily designed for [...]
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 [...]
UNIGIS Day Switzerland
No matter if you listen to experts from the domain of environmental or regional planning, the administration of agricultural subsidies or the simulation and visualization of urban masterplans - GIS plays and will play a [...]
UNIGIS MSc Days in Nepal
UNIGIS@Kathmandu organised a week long intensive workshop from September 1-6, 2014 at Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL), Nepal. The workshop focussed on enhancing the geospatial analytical competences of UNIGIS MSc candidates by critically discussing their Master [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
First Graduate with Salzburg-Quito Dual Degree
On June 18th, Diego Xavier Morales Jadán, the first Latin American graduate of the UNIGIS Dual Degree program established between Z_GIS, University of Salzburg and USFQ Quito, Ecuador, had the chance to participate in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
UNIGIS professionals @ work
This weekend a group of 16 professionals from various disciplines got together in Salzburg to participate in an introductory workshop of the UNIGIS professional certificate distance learning program in Geoinformatics. ...Wait a minute, did you [...]
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 [...]
Registration countdown for the 5th Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School
The 5th Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School focused on Open Web Services and Web Map Applications will take place from 7th to 11th of July 2014 in Girona. It's organized by SIGTE of [...]
Winners: UNIGIS Master Thesis Award 2014
We congratulate all finalists - Marco Saner, Keith Peterson and Bernd Härtwig - to being selected as the top MSc theses in 2013! In a public vote following brief presentations in an online webinar format Keith Peterson [...]
u_Lecture: Euro Beinat on Collective Sensing
On May 2nd, Prof Euro Beinat will be speaking on 'Data Science and Predictive Analytics', exploring the emerging world of collective sensing, how new data streams such as social media or digital transactions provide new [...]
A step towards better maps
Good maps require more than just displaying your data, add a legend, a scale bar and the “obligatory” north arrow. If you want to “hook” your audience and tell your “location based story” in an [...]
Capacity Building Initiatives of UNIGIS Latin America
During the last weeks, UNIGIS in Latin America carried out a series of capacity building initiatives in Ecuador and Colombia. By beginning of March, a new residential program for GIS-based Management of Indigenous Territories in [...]