PR - Chris Rizos and Linlin Ge have been awarded prestigious E.U. funded Erasmus Mundus scholarships, to visit partner universities of the consortium that has established a cross-european MSc programme in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM). The visits, to take place between September 2008 and April 2010, are intended to facilitate research and teaching collaboration between the GEM consortium and UNSW. (The GEM consortium comprises: The International Institute for Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands; The Lund University, Lund, Sweden; The University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.; The University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.)