2007 Global Scholarship Program Announcement-GIS
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This is not a typical scholarship program!
Rather, it is a support program that covers SOME of the costs to allow
you attend the best Conservation GIS conferences in the world this
summer and join in a very tight-knit community of friends in
specialized 2-week training courses around these conferences. Local
travel and accommodations provided will be simple and plain so that we
can afford to include as many people as possible, and you may be asked
to pay for some of these costs. These support grants are PARTIAL in
that you contribute some of the costs yourself and you are expected to
do a lot of work as a scholar. These grants are competitive in that
your application will be considered in comparison to others, evaluating
your work, your activism with NGO's, your needs and your resources in
relation to the environmental and economic issues of your region.
This year, an important policy change occurred in the program: we are
merging what used to be two scholarship programs, Domestic Program for
USA/Canada/Puerto Rico applicants and International Program for all
other countries, into one program under the title SCGIS Global
Scholarship Program. This will allow us to use a unified approach for
evaluation of all applications we receive, and to provide a better
integration of the two programs.
Awardees of the SCGIS Global Scholarship Program 2007 will be invited
to visit California to receive 2 weeks of training on general GIS
technology and on conservation applications in GIS that will be
conducted on June 4-16 in Redlands, CA, and at the James Reserve, a
biological station run by the University of California. After the
trainings, the awardees will have an opportunity to attend the 27th
ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA on June 18-22, and
the 10th SCGIS Annual Conference in Monterey, CA on June 25-28. At
these two conferences, the scholarship awardees will be able to present
results of their work, meet the colleagues from all over the world, and
learn about the most recent trends in GIS technology.
Application Deadline is January 31st, 2007.
For detailed information, guidelines and forms please go to:
www.scgis.org or http://gis-lab.info/projects/scgis/english
(the latter link allows you also to submit the application through an
online form).
Applicants may direct questions to Roberta Pickert, SCGIS International
Committee, rpic...@archbold-station.org .