Members of the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation (IPI) successfully participated at the ISPRS Midterm Symposium of the Commission V "Education and Outreach", held in Manila in August 2024: For his paper entitled Studying Geodesy and Geoinformatics - a German university perspective, co-authored by Prof. Steffen Schön, Prof Christian Heipke was honoured with the Best Paper Award, while Jojene R. Santillan, M.Sc., who is a PhD candidate at IPI, received the Best Presentation Award for his paper Visualising the Philippines' SDG 11.3.1 Status and Progress Using Open-Source Geospatial Software and Earth Observation Datasets.