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Pitch day for entrepreneurship ideas. On February 7, 5 groups of NOVAIMS 1st semester Geotech students pitched their novel ideas for a company. Many thanks to NOVA Impact (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) and Marta Busetto for the organization.

On February 4 the first year student at NOVAIMS visited NOVA Cidade where they saw demonstrations of analytical applications in cities and regions. Thank you to our host André Barriguina.

Pitch day for the GROW (Goals Requisites Opportunity Win) course at NOVAIMS.Thanks to Professor Rute Silva for her commitment.

The first year students at NOVAIMS visited the Center for Advanced Analytics of the Fidelidade Insurance Company, where they saw GIS and Artificial Intelligence applications in the insurance industry. We thank our hosts for the time and presentations.

Guest speaker Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, lecturer in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool’s Geographic Data Science Lab (GDSL), visited UJI in the realm of the Data Science module. Carmen told the students about GDSL’s research topics and gave a practical workshop on space networks. .

On January 20th 1st year Geotech students at NOVAIMS visited DGT including the sections on the Geodetic National Infrastructure, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SNIG), the Landuse Monitoring Service (SMOS), the National Territorial Information System (SNIT) and the Cartography and Photogrammetry Department.

On December 3 and 4 Michael Montani from the United Nations gave a training course to the UJI master students. The course included: OSM, mastery of JOSM, analysis of the geographical context and opendata usage.

As part of the series of industry talks in GEOTEC , the Chief of the UN Data Management Unit, Dra. Laura Díaz  gave an industry talk on December 2nd, 2024 to the students of the 2024-2025 edition of the master. Similar to her February 2024 presentation, Laura introduced the UNGSC in Valencia, the first UN permanent logistics base to meet […]

On November 29th NOVAIMS help a tree planting activity in the context of its 35th year anniversary. Geotech students and faculty participated in the program.

Professor Ionut Sandric, from the Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest visited Universitat Jaume I last week to teach a course on UAVs to our master students at Universitat Jaume I, students were very excited to apply UAV technology to both academic and practical challenges and enjoyed the outdoor practical sessions.