The 12th of February the training seminar “Open Science and European Open Access policies in H2020” took place at UJI. The seminar was organised by UJI in conjunction with the project FOSTER (Remedios Melero) and with the collaboration of OpenAire project (Pedro Príncipe). It consisted in two main sessions. The first one was an introduction to what Open Science & Open access is and the role of OpenAire. The second part of the seminar was mostly based on creating a Research Data Management plan.
From 17th to 19th of November the biggest smart cities event took place in Barcelona. It was the 5th edition of Smart City Expo World Congress where more that 14.000 people attended and 400 companies from around the world were presenting their solutions for cities.
The GEO-C team at UJI attended the event in order to meet some companies, specially Urbiotica, which will be holding one of the interships from the program students. The meeting with the company let exchange some technical details about the sensor system that they developed, focused on transit and public space measuring.
Some of the students also attended the conferences held during these days, and provided a report to share to all the group, sharing the trends and learnings that result in the event.
November 19th at UJI, GEO-C project was introduced to the University as part of lighting talks organised in the context of GISDay (www.gisday.com) and Geography awareness week (http://education.
Last Monday, Geo-C UJI team visited Prodevelop in order to know the business that are participating in GEO-C. These business will host different ESRs to do an internship during one month.
At nine in the morning, we were in the Prodevelop offices to begin the visit. Amelia del Rey was responsible for welcoming us and make the presentation. First, she presented the general lines of the company. Following, she discussed about the latest projects in which they participated. These projects were framed inside the smart cities context.
Finally, she was explained more precisely the project that could involve some GEO-C students. The two students that will visit Prodevelop, realized a short presentation. The visit ended with a small route within the company facilities.
