Logo for ACA*GIScience - our first step into 2014

The Austria-Central Asia Central Asia Centre for Geoinformatics at KSUCTA and KazNU is well known for managing the annual GISCA conference, facilitating academic collaboration and initiating projects - all geared towards capacity building in Geoinformatics and supporting the development of SDI components across Central Asia. 

Right now, we want to select our new logo, and need your help! Below you can view two suggestions for the logo - then, please follow this link and select your preferred version: http://zgis.doodle.com/nbqcfuzyxdv77f3e 

Thanks, and let the logo guide ACA*GIScience into another successful year :-)

EM - gSmart: 2nd Call for Scholarships open until January 31, 2014!

The second call for applications within the Erasmus Mundus project ‘gSmart - Spatial ICT Infrastructures for Smart Places’ has opened on December 15, 2013 and is aiming at those students and faculty who are working (or planning to work) with spatial methods like GIS or Remote Sensing or GNSS on explicitly "spatial" problems!

These scholarships are for Central Asian students from Bachelor to PhD and Post-Doc levels, as well as academics to study/research/teach/work in one of the gSmart partner institutions in Europe. Before applying - please check your eligibility and scholarship conditions carefully on the Website: http://em-gsmart.zgis.net !
Or get advise from CA partner contacts, who are the primary contacts at partner universities in Central Asia, and familiar with opportunities, requirements and criteria within gSmart: http://em-gsmart.zgis.net/ca-partner-contacts

Project Office
University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics, Z_GIS
Hellbrunner Strasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
http://em-gsmart.zgis.net