The social relevance is reflected, among other things, in the topics of the master's theses that the students deal with. It deals with global and practical areas of application of geoinformatics, for example to predict and visualise the effects of flooding in Bangladesh in order to create disaster plans on this basis. Another example is the monitoring of rainforest deforestation in Brazil through satellite observation, in order to document and combat illegal deforestation, explains Marco Painho, Full Professor at Nova IMS and responsible for this project."