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. .