Student Awards

We proudly present our award-winning students, who have reached significant achievements! The Programme Board has jointly developed and designed two distinctive awards which shall recognize graduated MSc students of the Erasmus Mundus Copernicus Master in Digital Earth programme.

The – Best Student Award – shall be awarded to the specialization track student, who excelled in exams, presentations, workshop, summer schools and other activities, and who enhances the visibility of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master, will be awarded as the “Best Student” for the cohort. Main evaluation criteria: Academic excellence, Copernicus relevance, student engagement and outreach. Performance for both study years is important. Nominations by Programme Board, joint decision by Programme Board members, award during PLUS graduation ceremony.

Stella Ofori-Ampofo

best student award

intake 1, GeoData Science

Nelson Schäfer

best student award

intake 1, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication

Pratichhya Sharma

best student award

intake 2, GeoData Science

Anatole Deligant

best student award

intake 2, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication

Felix Kröber

best student award

intake 3, GeoData Science

Kiarash Pooladsaz

best student award

intake 3, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication

Maria Rodriguez Navarrete

best student award

intake 4, GeoData Science

Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Ruchira Dulanjith

best student award

intake 4, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication

The – Special Achievement in Digital Earth award – honours either exceptional scientific or business development contributions in the domains Earth Observation, Geoinformatics and Digital Earth or contributions to the worldwide visibility of the Copernicus Master in Digital Earth programme. Nominations by Programme Board or Master’s Thesis supervisors, 1 student per cohort, joint decision by Programme Board members, award during PLUS graduation ceremony.

Stephanie Tumampos

special achievement in Digital Earth award

intake 1

“Outstanding contributions & academic communication for the worldwide visibility of the Copernicus Master in Digital Earth programme”

Cesar Aybar Camacho

special achievement in Digital Earth award

intake 2

“Exceptional scientific development contributions in the domains Earth Observation, Geoinformatics & Digital Earth”

Max Aragon & Termatics team

special achievement in Digital Earth award

intake 3

Max, Aragon, Carla Arellano, Jose Gomez, Felix Kröber, Maria Rodriguez Navarrete: “Exceptional scientific & business development contributions in the domains Earth Observation, Geoinformatics & Digital Earth”

Madeline Mulder

special achievement in Digital Earth award

intake 4

Madeline Mulder has produced extremely rewarding cartographically oriented work for her Master’s Thesis. The target group of respondents with visual impairments is mostly overlooked in the production of map-based learning materials, and the enthusiasm that respondents showed for working with maps was extremely positive. The main aim of the diploma thesis was to create a series of tactile maps for people with visual impairments, presenting selected Sustainable Development Goal Nr. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. The sub-goals were to implement an analysis of available teaching materials and maps for this specific target group of users and to make a set of maps and complementary materials designed for environmental education.

Student of the year within Esri Innovation Program, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics or Dean’s award Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geoinformatics.

  • 2024, UPOL: Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Ruchira Dulanjith Ekanayaka – first place in both the Master’s category and overall Earth Science section
  • 2022, PLUS:  Anatole Deligant – Storymap
  • 2021, PLUS: Simon Donike – Storymap
  • 2021, UPOL: Minha Noor Sultan – MSc Thesis award & MSc poster, 3rd place
  • 2021, UPOL: Leonard Luz – MSc poster, 1st place
latest update: July 11, 2024