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

Today 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 2025/2025 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 […]

Con terra GmbH and 52°North GmbH are the local associated partners of the GeoTech programme in Münster (see Associated partners – Mastergeotech Mastergeotech). The main task of the associated partners is support the students by career development activities. In this context, the two partners organized a career event at the Institute for Geoinformatics in Münster […]

Dr. Laura Diaz, Chief, Data ManagementUnit, Client Solutions Delivery Section at United Nations Global Service Centre in Valencia presented their activities and talked about potential master thesis topics with the first semester UJI students.

February 8 marked the of the G.R.O.W (Goals, Requisites, Opportunity and Win) program with presentations and award of certificates NOVAIMS. This initiative that helps students to clarify their professional goals and prepares them for a successful job search. The program included sessions on “Self-awareness & professional goals”, “Setting up for success”, “Job interview”, and, “Personal […]