The winner is ... Christian Hürzeler!

C.Hürzeler - rechts vorne

At the annual seminar of the Munich 'Round Table GIS', MSc and PhD Geoinformatics thesis authors from German, Swiss and Austrian Universities compete for the top thesis award. Today, Christian Hürzeler received the price for 1st place for his thesis titled "Der Preis der Aussicht. Einsatz von 3D-Stadtmodellen und 3D-Sichtbarkeitsanalysen in einem hedonischen Mietpreismodell" (roughly translated, 'Real estate prices and a room with a view. Analyses based on 3D city models and viewsheds in a hedonic model for apartment rental cost.').

Mr Hürzeler is working at the planning office of the City of Zurich, and completed his UNIGIS MSc at the University of Salzburg in the first half of 2012. The full text thesis is available from the UNIGIS Library.

Congratulations to this success reaching well beyond 'just' completing the UNIGIS MSc!

Renewed Intergraph - UNIGIS Agreement

Intergraph since many years has provided Geomedia licenses to UNIGIS students at several partner universities and study centres worldwide. After several corporate changes, this cooperation agreement now has been renewed and includes the options of ERDAS Imagine software for image analysis and photogrammetry. Thanks to Intergraph on students' behalf for this generous support for teaching and learning geospatial methodologies based on current toolsets!

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The 14th intake of UNIGIS Girona

The 14th intake of UNIGIS Girona has already finished its distance learning program in GIS Management. 57 students from different background (Geography, Engineering, Environmental Science, etc...) and with work experience in different fields (Biology, Topography and Cartography, Earth Science, etc...). Now, 57 professionals in GIS Management!

Forums have become a valuable tool for sharing knowledge and experiences through the commitment and participation of students. From the beginning they have been accompanied by the UNIGIS team that have supported them during the course.

The students also have had the opportunity to enroll in more than 10 training agreements offered by companies and institutions. These agreements allow students approach the professional needs.

The 14th intake is already part of the broad UNIGIS Girona Community with more than 1.000 alumni. They are also part of UNIGIS International Association, making it grow.

Good luck to all of them!

UNIGIS Kraków 2013 – 10th intake

The already 10^th intake of UNIGIS students in Kraków has started its distance learning program in GIS&T. These students joined more than 200 UNIGIS distance learners at the Jagiellonian University, who during these ten years decided to broaden their GIS&T professional qualifications and skills. The 2013 group is rather young with the majority of students born in the 80ties, male-dominated (80%) and with a prevailing engineering education background (forestry, geodesy and cartography, spatial management).

To establish good relations within the learning group and with instructors and organizers of studies, the new students attended a two-day kick-off workshop. They had a lot of possibilities for getting to know each other, to present themselves, to discuss and to enjoy common meals. They also got to know some of the UNIGIS Kraków graduates, who were awarded their diplomas during the workshop. We wish our new students to achieve their goals at the end of their two-year UNIGIS journey!

Distances shrink, networks matter: UNIGIS MSc 2013

"I need to know more about GIS." This was the common objective of 28 students meeting in Salzburg for the UNIGIS MSc starter workshop. However, GIS was not the central topic of the workshop. Prof. Strobl challenged such expectations right away in his welcoming talk: "we do not expect you to leave Salzburg knowing much more about GIS, we want you to get to know each other". On the way towards a community of practice of GIS students, coffee breaks during the workshop and delicious Austrian "Ripperl" with "Keller-Bier" facilitated this aim. Supervised by the UNIGIS_2013 mascot GISmo, the basis of a strong network was successfully built. A distance learning course has morphed to a networked, collective learning experience. We wish all new students interesting 2-3 years ahead and success in meeting their aims!