https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2025-2026/AB_1088For the GI Research Assignment you will be following an internship at a company, a governmental institute (e.g. a municipality, province or water board) or a research institution. The GI Research Assignment allows you to put your GIS skills and analytical approach to spatial challenges into practice. Furthermore you will experience how it is to work as a GIS researcher in a professional environment. After this course you are capable ofsetting up and structure spatial oriented researchformulate clear research aims and translate these into research questionsperform a literature study on a spatial issuetranslate a spatial research questions to adequate spatial methods and techniquesinterpret research results of spatially oriented research in an analytical and academic mannerreport and present research resultsThis course is part of the Geo Information minor and has as hard pre-requisites the courses Geo data (AB_1086) and Geographic Analysis and Visualisation (AB_1107). The GI research assignment is supervised by one of the GI mentors (either from Utrecht University or the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, depending on the topic). Although a list of hosts will be provided by the coordinator of the course, it always remains the student´s own responsibility to find a suitable host. You will be trained in research methods, setting up a research question, study design, spatial analysis and reporting.Individual assignments/internship with individual supervision.The Research Assignment assessment includes:Research plan (15%)Presentation (10%)Final report (75%)Third year bachelor students that participate in the Geo Information Minor.This course is part of the Geo Information minor and can not be followed without knowledge from the courses Geo data (AB_1086) and Geographic Analysis and Visualisation (AB_1107)