Fancy spending a week in Bruges in May ?

You can apply for a Comenius Grant to attend the iGUESS2 course that is taking place in Bruges in May 2013
Details of the course are below if you are unfamiliar with iGUESS2

Download the details as a PDF by clicking here

The deadline has sadly passed to join me in Salzburg in February 2013, but there will be other opportunities...


Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is software that is already widely used in all sorts of businesses such as industry and public services and they  are rapidly emerging in several aspects of society and still gaining importance (examples are GPS and digital maps). In order to offer students the best opportunities to succeed in our future society, the iGuess partners decided to join forces to create a course. All project partners add their own specific expertise to the iGuess consortium.
Hence, the expertise gathered in the project covers a broad, unique, range of fields.
If you complete our course, you will be issued an educational GIS Certificate, to which licenses for
GIS software will be linked.  
Besides  your newly acquired GIS skills,  you will  take home the necessary software to be able to develop your own exercises and use them in your classroom.
Check our website: www.iguess.eu

Course programme:
Day 1: Introduction and basics of spatial thinking and GIS learning.
Day 2: GIS exercises, in several subjects and applied to several European countries, such as
researching and mapping black stork nests,  industrial zones, genetically modified crops,
earthquakes and seismic activity.
Day 3: Fieldwork with GPS: exercises to collect and process geo-data.
Day 4: Didactical guidelines for preparation and development of own exercise. Start of workshop:
elaborating your own exercise
Day 5: Workshop and peer presentation of your own exercises.
Date of course:
Monday 6 to Friday 10 May 2013, Bruges, Belgium
Sunday and Saturday are travel days!

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