VUA - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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VUA in the Netherlands, demonstrates its excellence in high quality research & education by its performance in international rankings, belonging to the top three universities in the country.  The  section Earth & Economics of Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences (FALW) works in close collaboration with the Faculty of Economics & Business Administration (Depart. of Regional Economics, and the Spatial Information Laboratory, SPINlab), in their education & research on spatial information. Both faculties started with the successful BSc Earth & Economics 2007, in which spatial information is one crucial learning line. Parts of the portfolio are the Masters in Environment & Resource Management and Spatial Transport & Environmental Economics.
Geoinformatic Programs offered at VUA: 
Level
 Name / Term
 CoursesECTS Entry requirements Other
Bachelor Earth and EconomicsMinor National GI minor

(Sept 1 – Jan 30)
Geo data acquisition
Geographic Analysis & Visualisation
Two specialisation courses
GI Research Assignment		 30  6 ECTS introduction spatial information"gSmart" offer for Minor Studies at VUA
  Minor Earth Surface

(Sept 1 – Jan 30)
 Climate Science
Intro to Biogeosciences*
Sedimentary Environments
Introd to Biogeosciences
Human Geography
Land Use Change
 30  yes,
to be decided		 
  Minor Spatial Economics

(Sept 1 – Jan 30)
 Public economics
Research seminar Spatial economics
Urban economics
Human Geography
Land Use Change
 30  yes,
to be decided		 
BSc  SBIMinor Science, Business and Innovation

(Sept 1 – Jan 30)
 Business Intelligence
Semantic Web
Collective Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Heuristieken		 30 yes,
to be decided		 
MSc Environment and Resource Management

(Sept – June)
CaCause and Consequences of environmental Change
Environmental Economics
Environmental Policy
Misc.
 yes 1 year Master

Several courses
MSc STREEMSpatial, Transport and environmental economics

(Sept – June)
 Advanced Methods for Applied Spatial Economic Research
Microeconomics for Spatial Policy
Research Project Spatial Economics
Thesis and thesis seminar
 Mis. yes 1 year Master


MScEarth and Economics Microeconomic Foundations for Spatial Policy
Empirical Methods for Spatial Policy
Empirical Methods for Spatial Policy
Imaging the Earth Surface
Assessing the Landscape
Exploring Earth Processess and Resources
Project environmental Impact Assessment
Spatial Processes in ecology
 Misc. yes 2 years Master

Several courses
PhDThematic specialisation for supervision:  water and climate, ecosystem services, energy, spatial analysis, 3 D GIS
Post-DocExpertise offered to incoming CA staff:  project proposal development, joint teaching & research
Special Offers
UNIGIS Conference: 2 weeks, June, Workshop Spatial Analysis

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