eLearning Courses on Geographic Information Systems
Starting in October 2025, IAMO, FAO Albania and the Agricultural University of Tirana will offer two e-learning courses on topics related to geodata visualization and analysis. Registration is open until 1 October 2025.
In cooperation with FAO Albania GEO-WB6 is organizing two eLearning courses from October to December 2025 on the topics of Geodata Visualization and Automation of Spatial Data Analysis. The courses will take place weekly in a combination of online and in-person sessions and are aimed at students of UBT as well as early-career professionals in Albania. Participants must have a good command of English (at least level B1) and access to a personal computer for completing the course assignments. Participation is free of charge. The courses will start on 6 and 7 October 2025, respectively. Course A: Geodata Visualization (for GIS beginners)
- For UBT students and early-career professionals without prior experience in GIS
- Mondays (online, 14:30–16:00) & Wednesdays (offline at UBT, 14:30–16:00)
- Contents: geodata applications, existing geodata portals for Albania, basic geodata types, attribute queries and spatial queries, digitization and georeferencing, map visualisations and cartographic theory, basics of spatial data analysis
Course B: Automation of Spatial Data Analysis (for advanced GIS users)
- For UBT students and early-career professionals with prior experience in GIS
- Tuesdays (online, 16:30–18:00) & Thursdays (offline at UBT, 16:30–18:00)
- Contents: Principles of data management and curation, QGIS model builder, Python console in QGIS, Big data processing in R, Processing remote sensing data in Google Earth Engine
Interested participants can register until 1 October 2025 via the following link: https://bit.ly/4nCWEkV
