Thesis awards 2018

The CIPA-HD Executive Committee wishes to promote and sustain young researchers by offering a privileged place to show their research efforts and results.

If you are younger than 35 at 15th January 2018, and author of a Master or PhD thesis, concerning (totally or partially) the theme of cultural heritage documentation approved in the period 1st October 2016 – 31st October 2017, you can participate in this celebration and win an award. You can send us a summary paper of 8 pages in English including an abstract, methodology, main theme and results. The paper should follow the ISPRS format. The full version of your thesis is also required.

The CIPA-HD Executive Committee will select one each of the best Master and PhD thesis. The coherence of the thesis to CIPA’s topics, the originality of the achieved results and the quality of the complete work will be considered as evaluation criteria.

The two winners (1 MSc and 1 PhD) will be invited to orally present their works during the next ISPRS TC II Mid-term Symposium, which will be held in Riva Del Garda (Italy) from the 4th to 7th of June, 2018.

At the end of the oral presentation, a sum of €500 will be granted by the CIPA-HD President. The two selected papers will be published in the ISPRS Annals.

Please send all material to Fulvio Rinaudo by latest 15th January 2018.

The results of the selections will be communicated at the end of February 2018.

More information about this award and the instructions according to which you can enter this competition can be found in this document.