Recently, Prof.
Blaschke promoted the Doctoral College “GIScience” at several places in
Australia. He gave talks at the University of Queensland (QU), Queensland
University of Technology (QUT) and University of Tasmania. While addressing
different audiences and topics a key message was to make faculty members and
potential exchange partners understand what a doctoral college in Austria – and
in Geographic Information Science – exactly is. Based on examples from research
which bridges GIS, remote sensing and Geoinformatics-based modelling he
explained the program as a whole, and explained why the University of Salzburg
believes that the cross-cutting topic of GIScience benefits different application
areas and ultimately connects the virtual and the physical world.
A visit to
Melbourne also offered several possibilities to foster collaborations with the University
of Melbourne and RMIT. At least five Australian Universities were interested in
establishing future collaboration at PhD level with the University of Salzburg,
in particular enabling exchanges with the Doctoral College GIScience.
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