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GIS for university students

Geospatial skills are taught in theory and hired in practice. We run the part in between – workshops, capstone supervision, internships and a student competition, for universities across the UAE.

Why we do this

The gap is not knowledge. It is practice.

Graduates arrive knowing what a projection is and having never fixed a broken one. They can describe a spatial join and have never cleaned a dataset messy enough to need one.

We are a small firm in a research park surrounded by universities. Running teaching alongside client work keeps our own people sharp, and it is the most direct way we can help build the regional geospatial bench we will eventually hire from.

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What you will actually be able to do

Build, not just describe

Design a geodatabase, load real data into it, and publish a working web map from it.

Analyse defensibly

Choose a method, state the assumptions, quantify the error and say what the result does not show.

Automate the boring half

Python for geospatial work – the difference between a one-off map and a repeatable pipeline.

Work with imagery

Handle real satellite scenes end to end, including the parts the textbook skips.

Programmes

Six ways we work with universities

Semester workshop series

A run of practical sessions delivered on campus or at SRTIP across a semester, taking a cohort from a first map to a published web application.

  • Eight to twelve sessions
  • Individual lab environment per student
  • Certificate of completion

Capstone & thesis support

Technical supervision for final-year and postgraduate geospatial projects: scoping the question, choosing the method, getting the data, and defending the result.

  • Method and data review
  • Access to imagery and software guidance
  • Mock viva and feedback

Internships & placements

Supervised placements on real engagements, with a named supervisor, a defined learning plan and an honest reference at the end.

  • Eight to sixteen weeks
  • Real project work, supervised
  • Written reference

Student GIS competition

An annual challenge on a real regional problem – judged on method and evidence rather than on cartographic polish.

  • Open to UAE universities
  • Mentoring through the entry period
  • Judged on method, not decoration

Faculty & curriculum support

Help designing or refreshing a geospatial module, building lab exercises on regional data, and training the staff who will teach it.

  • Module and lab design
  • Regional datasets for teaching
  • Train-the-trainer sessions

Research collaboration

Joint studies with university research groups, including co-authored publication where the work supports it.

  • Joint programme design
  • Named co-authorship
  • Access to our research network
Getting started

Whether you are a department or a student

Universities & faculty

Tell us the course, the cohort size, the level and the semester. We will propose a programme, a schedule and a price, and we will say plainly if a shorter intervention would serve your students better.

  • Academic rates
  • Delivery in Arabic or English
  • On campus, at SRTIP, or online
Request a programme proposal

Students

Internship places are limited and we take them seriously – you will do real work with a named supervisor, not filing. Send a CV, the module or project you are working on, and one thing you have built that you are proud of.

  • No prior professional experience expected
  • Supervised work on live engagements
  • Written reference on completion
Apply for a placement

Certificates issued for student programmes are certificates of completion from infotech innovation (FZE). They are not a university credential and not a vendor certification – your institution decides whether any credit attaches.

Start a conversation

Have a geospatial problem, a research question, or a technology decision to get right?

Tell us what you are trying to find out. We come back within two working days with an honest view of whether we can help, how long it would take and what it would cost – before you commit to anything.

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