UNIGIS en America Latina – promoción 2010B

El programa UNIGIS en América Latina les dio la bienvenida a un total de 60 estudiantes de diferentes países latinoamericanos en los seminarios introductorios de Cali (16 de octubre) y Quito (23 de octubre). 

Una vez más en el año 2010 comenzó su camino por el programa UNIGIS un grupo grande con profesionales de diferentes campos de trabajos y paises. Les deseamos estudios exitosos en dos años interesantes y productivos con sus compañeros de estudios!

Eventos UNIGIS en América Latina 2009 y 2010

En 2009 y 2010 UNIGIS estuvo presente en las siguientes conferencias y exhibiciones internacionales en todo el mundo – fueron oportunidades excelentes para conversar con la facultad y los alumnos de UNIGIS, para encontrar estudiantes actuales y debatir sus preguntas acerca de los programas de UNIGIS.

2010
XVII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Usuarios ESRI 2010, México D.F.
AGSE 2010 - Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment, Arequipa, Perú
ESRI User Conference San Diego, Estados Unidos

2009
International Cartography Conference ICC 2009, Santiago de Chile
XVI Conferencia Latinoamericana de Usuarios ESRI 2009, Bogotá, Colombia
ESRI User Conference San Diego, Estados Unidos
CONFIGSIG San Jose, Costa Rica

1st Latin American GIS education conference

On September 21st, UNIGIS co-organized the first Latin American Conference on GIS-Education in cooperation with ESRI (http://www.sigsa.info/lauc2010/edu.html). The conference was hosted by ESRI’s Mexican representative SIGSA (http://www.sigsa.info/) and brought together GIS-users, teachers and other faculty from all over Latin America. A curriculum development workshop was held by the director of the UNIGIS program in Latin America, Richard Resl from the University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

Nearly 200 participants discussed common goals and challenges for developing and implementing up-to-date GI curricula that satisfy the specific needs of students and professionals in order to meet the growing demand for high quality GIS-Education in Latin America.

UNIGIS at ESRI International User Conference in San Diego

UNIGIS actively participated in the ESRI International User Conference, July 12-16 2010. Monday night UNIGIS was present at the 'Academic GIS Program Fair', and from Tuesday to Thursday was available for attendees at a large booth in the main exhibit hall, providing information on all UNIGIS Distance Learning offerings worldwide. A lot of people stopped by to find out about UNIGIS: current UNIGIS students and alumni, prospective UNIGIS students, university faculty/staff as well as prospective UNIGIS member institutions. Representatives from UNIGIS USC, Latin America, Salzburg and Poland staffed the booth, presented UNIGIS programs and actively promoted UNIGIS studies worldwide.

UNIGIS with ESRI at Latin America GIS Edu Conference

UNIGIS is cooperating with ESRI in organising and contributing to the Latin America GIS Education Conference hosted by SIGSA, announced for September 21, 2010 in Mexico City: http://www.sigsa.info/lauc2010/edu.html.

The conference flyer offers additional details for this event which will bring together the Latin America GIS educators' community sharing their experiences, discussing curricula, educational pedagogies and methods, and models for GIS labs.

UNIGIS en America Latina – first intake 2010

The UNIGIS program in Latin America that is coordinated by the University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is happy to announce its first intake in 2010. By the end of March a group of 50 postgraduate students from Ecuador, Colombia and other Latin American countries were successfully enrolled in the two year UNIGIS master program. Two residential seminars were held to welcome the new students on March, 20th at USFQ, Quito (Ecuador) and March 27th at CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia). The recently enrolled students can count on a distance learning qualification offered in Spanish language that is specifically tailored to particular needs of GIS professionals in Latin America. Welcome – Bienvenidos!

Dual Degree Agreement Quito-Salzburg

During the 'Primer Simposio GIS Educatión en América Latina' (March 26-28, 2008) an extended academic cooperation agreement was signed by Chancellor Santiago Gangotena from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and Prof. Josef Strobl from the University of Salzburg. UNIGIS students from USFQ now have the opportunity to reach an MSc degree at Salzburg if they complete all requirements including the development of a Master Thesis in English language. The Symposium brought together GIS educators from most Latin American countries. The broad range of symposium presentations demonstrated a high level of interest in advancing GIS education throughout Latin America, and was followed by a day of hands-on workshops offering introductions into FOSS products like gvSIG, SAGA and Mapserver.

The 'GIS education week' at USFQ was then topped off with the introductory on-site workshop of the first group of 2008 UNIGIS students - we wish them a successful start into their distance program!

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