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On February 12, we visited the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).First year NOVA students had the opportunity to visit the control center of the agency (MSS) and to hear about remote sensing applications in maritime safety. We thank Michael and Filipe for the detailed presentations and Antonia and Andrija for organising the visit.

Today, NOVAIMS first-year students 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.

On January 29 the first year students at NOVAIMS visited NOVA Cidade where they saw demonstrations of analytical applications in cities and regions. Thank you to our hosts Miguel Neto and André Barriguina.

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

We visited the Direção-Geral do Território (General Directorate for Land). We looked at old and new technologies as well as geospatial data applications in Geodesy, Cartography and web access. Thank you to the DGT personnel for having the 2025/2026 first year group of students

Since 2022, UJI has collaborated with the UN Mappers Team to introduce students to OpenStreetMap, open data, and open-source geospatial tools, alongside dedicated UN Maps training sessions. These activities allow students to engage directly with real UN use cases, gaining hands-on experience in collaborative mapping, data quality, and field-to-office workflows. The most recent training, held […]

On 11-12 November, UN Mappers conducted an Open Street Map training with the students at the Universitat Jaume I.

On October 28 the UJI students from the Master in Geospatial Technologies visited FACSA, a large water company headquartered in Castellón but serving customers in many towns and cities across Spain. FACSA has been using GIS to enhance productivity since 1996 but in recent years they modernized and spread GIS applications to more than 450 […]

On February 13, NOVAIMS students visited the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).First year students had the opportunity to visit the control center of the agency and to hear about remote sensing applications in maritime safety. We thank German and Filipe for the detailed presentations.

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 […]