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 distance learning programme over the last eighteen years. The slides from Richard's presentation are available at:-

http://www.unigis.org/news/ESRI_Education_Conference_Presentation.mht

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 AIT and the Centre for Geoinformatics at University of Salzburg to promote and facilitate access to UNIGIS online education programmes for working professionals in the field of geospatial technologies. The first students of Masters and Professional Diploma were accepted in October 2007. Admission to the 2008 intake is now open for the batch starting November 10, 2008.

The last date for the submission of online applications is October 30, 2008. Pl. contact Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Asian Institute of Technology at ait.office@unigis.net for assistance to apply for the admission. The orientation workshop for new Students will be offered on 29 November 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Contact information:
Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi
Director, UNIGIS@AIT Centre (Online Masters and Diploma Program in GIS)
School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology,
P.O. Box. 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani-12120, Thailand
Phone:+66-2-524 6392, Fax: +66-2-524 5597, +66-2-501 1677; ait.office@unigis.net www.unigis.net/ait_bangkok

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 on new methodologies in data collection and modeling. The venue is the UWH GEO's Knowledge Center on Land and Geoinformation. Lectures will be delivered by leading representatives of the 3D arena including Eurosense, LEICA, Varinex, Laservision/Riegl, YonaPMS, FIG Commission 7 as well as Prof. Franz Leberl, chief scientist of Microsoft' Virtual Earth program. 

The event is free to the public thanks to the prominent donor organisations. Major sponsor of the conference is Microsoft. Working language is English. HUNAGI advised the organisers to offer one or more papers of the high-profile presentations for the International Journal of Digital Earth for publication. 

                                         bm, 18 Aug 2008

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 could be transformed in the constant and joint work in order to improve the courses, being up-to-date of the changes and adapting to the new technologies that are defined in the sector of the GIS.

Enjoy the video!

GISDevelopment press release on UNIGIS Distance Learning in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

UNIGIS Distance Learning in Central Asia

23 July 2008
Austria - UNIGIS MSc and professional certificate programmes are now offered in Central Asia through the UNIGIS (www.unigis.net) study centre at the Kyrgyz State University for Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

Continuing and higher education in Geographic Information Science and Technologies and Geoinformatics methods is important for developing Spatial Data Infrastructures across nations and regions as a foundation for sustainable economies, societies and environments. Increasingly, enterprises, non-governmental organisations and public agencies apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to reach their objectives and to better serve their customers. "GIS" has become an attractive and rewarding career path for motivated and skilled professionals worldwide - with the UNIGIS academic network being the global leader in GIScience distance education.

This new UNIGIS study centre is integrated with the Austria - Central Asia Centre for GIScience (www.aca-giscience.org) and offers in-service distance education for professionals interested in GIS and Geoinformatics. Courses towards the MSc as well as certificate qualifications will be launched with an on-site workshop in September and lead students to international academic degrees / certificates awarded by the University of Salzburg, Austria.