Students in their last year of a Bachelor’s degree program, students enrolled in a Master’s degree program, and PhD candidates in fields related to geography, GIS, earth/environmental sciences, and/or engineering.

Additional eligibility criteria for JKU Linz applicants:

At the time of both submitting an application and traveling, you must be an active, degree-seeking student (no exchange students) at the JKU .

• Undergraduate/Diploma degree students must have:

  • successfully completed a minimum of 2 semesters at the JKU

  • successfully completed all of the StEOP requirements

  • been actively taking exams with a minimum of 16 ECTS credits earned over the last two semesters

• Graduate students (Master's degree program):

  • Students must have earned a minimum of 16 ECTS credits during the past two semesters, or past (most recent) semester.
    ➤ Newly enrolled Master's degree students without prior ECTS credits are not eligible to apply

• Doctoral/PhD candidates:

  • there is no specific prerequisite for those in the first first two years of their program, 

  • those in the third year of the program or higher will require a signed dissertation agreement.

Applicants must have:

• a good understanding of basic statistical methods (such a multiple linear regression)

• experience with GIS or geospatial data

• ideally, basic programming skills in R or Python

There are 3 grant spots available.

Selected participants will receive a mobility grant of up to €1,000 which covers:

• Travel costs

• Accommodation expenses

• Participation during the core program (October 7–9, 2025)

• Two travel days: October 6 (arrival) and October 10 or 11 (return)

Important information about the field trip on October 10:
The field trip on October 10 is optional and the EC2U mobility grant does not cover the costs. This means:

• expenses incurred on October 10 (such as meals, transportation, hotel) will not be reimbursed.

• if you opt to stay for the field trip, your hotel receipt must clearly separate the nights covered by the grant (up to October 9) from any additional nights (such as October 10).

• if the hotel invoice includes the optional night and there is no clear separate hotel bill, we cannot process your reimbursement!

• As Jena is relatively close to Linz, you may want to consider returning on the evening of October 10 to avoid an additional hotel costs.

Please plan your stay and receipts accordingly to ensure your grant can be processed as smoothly as possible.

No, this is an on-site, in-person meeting only.

Selected applicants will be notified by June 3, 2025, and must confirm participation by June 10, 2025.