UNIGIS International Association (UAI) has decided for the first time in its history to award the best MSc theses. The winner André Coleman from UNIGIS Amsterdam was invited by UIA and GI_Forum to present his thesis with the topic “Adaptive Classification of Landscape Process and Function: An Integration of Geoinformatics and Self-Organizing Maps”. The second place went to Tobias Fleischmann (UNIGIS Salzburg). The third award went to Christopher Needham (UNIGIS UK) who also presented here in Salzburg.