GEO-C, in cooperation with Wissenschaft im Dialog, will bring together experts and citizens for a roundable discussion on the topic “The Future City of Münster” on November 17, 2015 from 19:00 to 20:30 at the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany. Save the date: only *two weeks* to go! If you’re citizen from Münster, or if you’re passing by Münster around that date, please join us! We would like to hear your about your fresh ideas for a greater Münster. The official flyer (german only) is available here for download.

The Universitat Jaume I receives from the 13th to the 25th September the members of the European project GEO-C in which participates the Universitat Jaume I with researchers from the Universidade Nova of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Münster (Germany). The project aims to develop a set of open software tools to facilitate the enjoyment of a more sustainable and open city, moving towards the so-called intelligent cities.

The event started with an “orientation camp” where the just arrived doctoral researchers got known to the faculty of the three partner sites and deeper insights into organization and cooperation within the GEO-C project. Then, the supervisors of the doctoral researchers conducted a “interdisciplinary block course”, each providing in one-day blocks his/her research approach for contributing to the smart city project.

The NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (http://novaims.unl.pt) is offering a full-time Post-Doctoral position at post-graduate level as Science and Technology Manager (BGCT), fixed term, to be filled from July 1st 2015 until October 31st 2018 (40 months).

The fellowship amount for the full time position (current working hours are 40 hours per week) is according to the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. The full monthly maintenance stipend scale is available athttp://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.en. Successful candidates will be placed in the BGCT group (Doctor). The level of the stipend (€1495 – €1995) within this group will be determined based on prior experience.

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On November 26, 2014 the mayor of Castellón, Alfonso Bataller, will participate in the presentation of the Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities that has been selected for grant preparations within the MARIE Sk?odowska-CURIE ACTIONS, International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates (EJD). From the Universitat Jaume I, Dr. Vicent Climent, Rector, Dr. Pablo Aibar Ausina, Vice-rector of Campus, Infrastructures and New Technologies, Dr. Andrés Marzal, Executive director, Dr. Joaquín Huerta and Dr. Michael Gould from the Institute of New Imaging Technologies, will be attending.

GEO-C will provide 15 full PhD scholarships among the three universities, Westfälische Wilhelms – Universität Münster (WWMU), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) for the Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities. The call will open soon and the applications will be available until April 3, 2015.