Student Awards
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.
Maria Rodriguez Navarrete
best student awardintake 4, GeoData Science
Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Ruchira Dulanjith
best student awardintake 4, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication
Kiarash Pooladsaz
best student awardintake 3, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication
Felix Kröber
best student awardintake 3, GeoData Science
Anatole Deligant
best student awardintake 2, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication
Pratichhya Sharma
best student awardintake 2, GeoData Science
Nelson Schäfer
best student awardintake 1, GeoVisualisation & Geocommunication
Stella Ofori-Ampofo
best student awardintake 1, GeoData Science
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 awardintake 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 awardintake 2
“Exceptional scientific development contributions in the domains Earth Observation, Geoinformatics & Digital Earth”
Max Aragon & Termatics team
special achievement in Digital Earth awardintake 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 awardintake 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, University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics or Dean’s Awards from Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geoinformatics.
- 2026, UPOL, Bamidele Clement Oke – first place poster session,
Dean’s Awards 2026 - 2025, UPOL: Gernot Nikolaus – first place in both the Master’s category & overall Earth Science section & in the poster session, Dean’s Awards 2025
- 2024, UPOL: E. M. Ruchira Dulanjith Ekanayaka – first place in both the Master’s category & overall Earth Science section, Dean’s Awards 2024
- 2022, PLUS: Anatole Deligant – Storymap, University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics
- 2021, PLUS: Simon Donike – Storymap, University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics
- 2021, UPOL: Minha Noor Sultan – MSc Thesis award & MSc poster, 3rd place, Dean’s Awards 2021
- 2021, UPOL: Leonard Luz – MSc poster, 1st place, Dean’s Awards 2021
latest update: May 12, 2026