Centre for Geo-Information (CGI) has a leading role in the field of geo-information, remote sensing and ICT. With scientific, interdisciplinary and a user-oriented approach, CGI contributes to solutions of (inter-) national spatial topics.
CGI wants to increase the flow of students from the MSc education Geo-information Sciences or the MSc education GIMA, towards an appointment as researcher at CGI-Alterra, by introducing these so-called traineeships. CGI offers during 2010 two traineeships. During these traineeships the trainees have the possibility to obtain working experience at CGI-Alterra in the field of geo-research, under supervision of a senior researcher, in order to grow under the usual conditions into a regular research position after a positive evaluation.
Since 2010 CGI consist out of 4 different teams; Earth observation, Geo-information and Communication, Geo-information Infrastructure and the team Spatial Models and Knowledge systems. At first the new trainees are recruited for the teams Geo-information Infrastructure or Geo-information and Communication. This means that the requested interests should fit into research themes of the two mentioned teams. However, applications with interests that cover the research issues of the remaining teams are also taken into consideration.
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In order to anticipate on the dynamics on the labour market and preferences of the student, there is the possibility to combine an internship and the trainee. In this case the internship (4 to 6 months) has to be accepted by the conditions of the education. However, the traineeship procedure does not include agreements about the internship, which are part of the educational conditions; we offer you the opportunity to apply directly for the traineeship.
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Procedure traineeship CGI
Research themes CGI
Trainee selection
What CGI-Alterra offers
Recruitment period
Procedure traineeship CGI
Acceptance to the traineeship is a privilege to a small number of students that finished (at the latest on 1 September 2010) the MSc education Geo-Information Sciences or the MSc education GIMA.
Besides an application letter and c.v., the application should include a brief research proposal (maximum 3 pages) that needs to be presented and discussed with the application committee. The proposal should fit into the different research themes of CGI and preferably focus on the research themes within the teams Geo-Information Infrastructure or Geo-Information and Communication. Hereby the research renewal, public impact and personal motivation of the proposal will be considered.
Research themes CGI
Team Earth observation
Thematic classification and analysing satellite images
Quantitative remote sensing
Team Geo-Information and Communication
Monitoring en evaluation methodologies
Participatory spatial information (interactive tools, maptable)
Human-Space interaction agent-based models
Geo-visualisation (1d -> semantics & ontology/2d/3d/4d/5d -> Augmented Reality)
GI-use
Team Geo-information Infrastructure
SDI concepts and applications
Services orientated architecture
Sensor web
Webmapping
Geo-data files (constructing, analysing, managing)
Team Spatial models en Knowledge systems
Model-integration
Concepts for integrating knowledge (wipikedia concepts)
Developing integrated tools, data mining
Semantic/ontology (information modelling)
Human-Space modelling, scaling
Trainee selection
The trainee should have an MSc degree Geo-Information Sciences or an MSc degree GIMA, and has an established interest for applicable scientific research. The trainee should have a clear interest in geo-related scientific topics with a public impact. Within the traineeship the responsibility of the trainee is to develop a research proposal and acquire a commercial assignment for it. The selection is based on the application letter and CV with an interview.
What CGI-Alterra offers
Appointment for maximum 1 year as trainee (max scale 9.0, €2411,-/month with a 36 hour week);
Training in extra skills. There is a refund for (in company) course expenses during the trainee period (until €1500,-), HRM sets a training strategy;
Opportunity to gain working experience;
Possibility to build a (inter-) national network;
Experiences within big projects; administrative, contents, planning/coordination;
Possibility to publish articles as co-author;
Potential prospect on a temporal appointment for 3 years as DLO-researcher 4.
Recruitment period
The recruitment period starts from 15 March and more information can be found at http://www.mgi.wur.nl/UK/future_career/. Additional announcements about the traineeship are made on the educational site of MSc Geo-Information. Necessary is that the applicant can start as trainee on the latest of 1 September. The selection procedure for the trainee takes place in the same order as application are received.
Applications needs to be sent to: Patty van Beek.
Place: Wageningen
Closure date: 12 april 2010