. . . "Apply professional skills (oral communication, formulating an argument, scientific debate) and (ethical) values needed (justice, responsibility, reasonableness, respect, honesty) for working in international and interdisciplinary teams and environments."@en . . "Apply professional skills (oral communication, formulating an argument, scientific debate) and (ethical) values needed (justice, responsibility, reasonableness, respect, honesty) for working in international and interdisciplinary teams and environments."@en . . . "Critically reflect on the capacity of geo-spatial data, methods and tools in addressing specific global challenges."@en . . "Critically reflect on the capacity of geo-spatial data, methods and tools in addressing specific global challenges."@en . . . "Jointly analyse, synthesize and communicate on the local and/or regional effects of a selected global challenge."@en . . "Jointly analyse, synthesize and communicate on the local and/or regional effects of a selected global challenge."@en . . . "Apply knowledge and skills acquired in preceding courses to analyse global challenges and trends and their effects at the local/regional level."@en . . "Apply knowledge and skills acquired in preceding courses to analyse global challenges and trends and their effects at the local/regional level."@en . . . "Reflect on international and interdisciplinary differences when co-developing local actions (context-specific strategy, plan, indicators, policy recommendation) to address global challenges."@en . . "Reflect on international and interdisciplinary differences when co-developing local actions (context-specific strategy, plan, indicators, policy recommendation) to address global challenges."@en . . . "Explain global challenges and trends and how their impacts differ across geographic areas, critically reflect on institutional frameworks/global agreements related to the global challenges addressed in the keynote lectures."@en . . "Explain global challenges and trends and how their impacts differ across geographic areas, critically reflect on institutional frameworks/global agreements related to the global challenges addressed in the keynote lectures."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO) is a two-year academic curriculum at MSc level, taught fully in English, dedicated to understanding the earth’s systems from a geographic and spatial perspective. The field of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation has, in recent years, witnessed fast scientific and technological developments. As a result, geographic information has become a vital asset to society and part of our daily life. The ubiquitous production and availability of spatial data require cloud computing and new technology to turn the increasing volume of ‘big data’ to good use. The growing range of global challenges, from climate change and resource depletion to environmental pollution and pandemic diseases, that our society and in particular the more vulnerable populations on our planet are facing, increases the demand for academic professionals who have the ability, attitudes and skills to design solutions that are sustainable, transdisciplinary and innovative with positive societal impacts. Our education focuses on addressing these global problems by means of advanced geo-information and earth observation applications."@en . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . . "ArcGIS"@en . . . "ENVI"@en . . . "Excel "@en . . . "PowerPoint"@en . . . "Word"@en . . . "QGIS"@en . . . "SNAP"@en . . . "Course"@en . "201800317" . "CORE_005" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-04-20T22:00:00Z"^^ . "f2f" . "Lectures about global challenges (processes and trends, policy frameworks, use of geo- information and earth observation, examples of local impacts)\nWorking groups to further process the information provided by the lectures/reading material through the perspective of your own discipline/project group\nSupervised project group-work to work on a specific case study (4-6 students)\nTutorials, to acquire some specific methods that students aim to use in the elaboration of the projects\nSelf-study\nExcursion or discussion with invited experts (1 per case study project)"@en . "None,Successful completion of the ITC course 'GIS and RS for Geospatial Problem Solving' or equivalent."@en . "40"^^ . "3" . "2A" . "2023-02-05T23:00:00Z"^^ . "Global challenges of the 21st century, as caused by or related to climate change, rapid urbanization and increased resource use cannot be simply addressed at the global level within disciplinary boundaries but require careful consideration and detailed analysis at the regional and local level and an interdisciplinary lens. In this course, we aim to increase your awareness of the urgency to address global challenges of the 21st century at multiple scales and the added value of engaging with other disciplines. Besides learning about internationally recognized key global challenges, you will further strengthen the geo-spatial and domain knowledge and skills acquired in preceding courses. You will become aware of both the added value and challenges of crossing disciplinary boundaries and recognize the contribution of your own discipline in analysing global problems and designing actions at the local level.\n\nThe course consists of two elements, moving from a multi-disciplinary to an interdisciplinary approach. The first element introduces you to a set of key global challenges which have been recognized internationally and relate to selected research themes of ITC and the educational tracks of the Master Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation. This is done by means of keynote lectures and associated working groups. The second element is an interdisciplinary and project-based investigation in multi-disciplinary groups (i.e. a region-specific case study that reflects a mix of challenges and impacts). With the group, you will analyse a global issue more in-depth and collaboratively design a response (plan, strategy, policy recommendation, etc.) at the local level. For further details see the content section."@en . "Global Challenges, Local Action"@en . "Global Challenges, Local Action"@en .