After achieving my BSc in Communication Engineering in Jordan, I came to FH-Kärnten in August 2018 to join the international Master’s program “Spatial Information Management”. Being in this international space paved the way for a great experience. It was a delight to learn, integrate and build relationships with international communities especially in the very nice city of Villach. I have learnt the key principals of GIS science and I was able to translate my gained knowledge when I was granted the Marshallplan Scholarship to do my thesis “Comparison of Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for water fowl detection and classification” at the University of New Mexico, USA from March 2020 to July 2020.