Short Intensive Programmes & Conferences

Short intensive programmes (SIP) are an integrative part of the CDE study programme and a compulsory element of the curriculum. Poster or paper submission to conferences provide students a platform to interact with people and to receive feedback on the quality of their research.

Students register for the course(s) International Summer School & Blended Intensive Programme in PLUSonline. As basis of the approval of study credit (ECTS), a written participation certificate needs to be submitted as well as a report in the ePortfolios.

A list where the CDE Programme Board can provide credit recognition is provided below, if students want to attend other short intensive programmes please contact the Programme Board members for approval, prior to registration.

International Spring School on Visualization, Olomouc (online); contact: Konicek Jakub (jakub.konicek[at]upol.cz)

AI4EO symposium Rennes 2025 September, participation for GeoDSc or GeoVIS students; hybrid event; participation will be accounted for a summer school.

Annual summer school on AI4EO, starting 2026 for edition 2 students, online event organized by students for students.

Annual Geospatial Summer School UPOL, Olomouc; contact: Konicek Jakub (jakub.konicek[at]upol.cz)

e.g. summer schools offered by the HDCRS working group which is part of the IEEE GRSS Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee.

Check for events, working groups and participation grants on the GRSS  website.

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs organizes workshops on an annual basis. Explore the events section of their website.

EGU – European Geosciences Union e.V, learn more about upcoming meetings, workshops, and conferences that may be of general interest to the geoscience community.

Open for a CIVIS member university such as PLUS; link to all CIVIS BIPs.

BIPs of the CIVIS alliance are individual online learning activities supported by regularly scheduled webinars, with everyone meeting for a fulltime residential week at one partner site of a BIP’s consortium. Participants either register online or are expected to be nominated through their local contacts and/or Erasmus offices to receive support for their ‘mobility’. Please note, all CDE Erasmus+ funded student are not eligible for double funding.

AGIT 2025 – Conference for Geoinformatics, Research and Innovation meets Education. 2. – 3. July 2025, University of Salzburg, Austria.

The GeoMundus conference is an annually event – by students for students – taking place at one of the three program’s partner universities in Lisbon, Castellón or Münster.

The EGU General Assembly is an annually event in Vienna for disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences.

Explore events organized by the International Geographical Union.

Annual FOSS4G conferences.

Annual Φ-week on the latest trends in EO! Inspiring talks, workshops, roundtables, startup pitch, hackathons, etc.; EO researchers, data scientists, non-space corporates, tech leaders, entrepreneurs, up to startup and innovators, in Frascati (Rome), Italy. www

Living Planet Symposium, 23–27 June 2025 at the Austria Center Vienna, Austria. The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 December 2024.

latest update: October 28, 2024