🌍 ERASMUS+ MECAS: ECOINFORMATICS — A NEW MASTER'S PROGRAM
🌱 MECAS — “Development of Master Curricula in EcoInformatics for the Impact on the Aral Sea Basin” — an international project implemented within the framework of Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE).
🇪🇺 The project is funded with the support of the European Commission and serves to study environmental problems in the Aral Sea basin using modern digital technologies, scientific approaches and international experience.
🎓 NEW ECOINFORMATICS MASTER'S PROGRAM
One of the main goals of the MECAS project is the development and implementation of the modern Ecoinformatics graduate program at partner universities in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
The new graduate program aims to combine ecology and digital technology to give future professionals modern knowledge and practical skills.
📚 The program is planned for 2 years — 120 ECTS, and 17 new courses are planned to be developed within the framework of the project.
💻 Within the framework of Ecoinformatics:
🗺 GIS and Spatial Analysis
🛰 Remote Sensing
🌿 Ecology & Environmental Monitoring
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
📊 Numerical Ecology
💻 R Programming
🌍 Ecosystem Assessment & Management
🛰 Satellite Image Processing
🌊 Aral Sea environmental modeling
🌐 Google Earth Engine
💡 Ecoinformatics Entrepreneurship
modern routes such as are covered.
📣 ATTENTION BACHELOR'S DEGREE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES!
Undergraduate students and graduates interested in the Ecoinformatics Master's program can prepare for future admissions now.
News about admissions, master's programs, new subjects, partner universities and opportunities for students will be published on the official MECAS platforms.
🇵🇹 MECAS TRAINING — PORTUGAL | 7–9 SEPTEMBER 2026
Today, September 7, 2026, the Second Technical Training and Project Meeting of the MECAS project began in Covilhã, Portugal.
📍 Training host — University of Beira Interior (UBI)
📍 Location — UBImedical, Covilhã, Portugal
Representatives of partner organizations from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Italy, and Spain are participating in the three-day international training.
📌 Today is the 1st day of the training.
From the first day's program:
🔹 Numerical Ecology
🔹 Citizen Science Green Application
🔹 Using GIS in Aquatic Ecomonitoring
🔹 R Programming in Ecology
The modules include:
The training is not limited to theoretical knowledge. The program focuses on hands-on training, laboratory work, group projects, and a learning-by-doing approach.
In the following days, trainings will continue on routes such as Remote Sensing, Advanced GIS Spatial Analysis, Ecosystem Assessment, Environmental Monitoring, Geoinformation Systems, and Google Earth Engine.
🤝 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION — NEW KNOWLEDGE — NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Through MECAS, the expertise of European and Central Asian universities has been combined to train a new generation of professionals who can offer modern digital solutions to the environmental problems of the Aral Sea basin.
📌 Project: MECAS
📌 Programme: Erasmus+ CBHE
📌 Project No.: 101127171
📌 Field: Ecoinformatics
📌 Focus: Aral Sea Basin
🔔 Interested in the Ecoinformatics master's program?
Follow MECAS news regularly. Information about the master's program, admission processes, international training, new courses, and opportunities for students will be published gradually.