REPORT
TO THE 22ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
IN
FIG PC -MEETING IN SUN CITY JUNE 1999
Kirsi
Virrantaus
1.General
Commission
2 has been working actively and according to the work plan. The planned
seminar and meetings have been organized and information on these happenings
as well as general news have been delivered via Newsletters and Web pages.
Some minor changes have happened in the composition of working groups as
well as in nominations of national delegates.
2.
Work plan
Commission
2 has followed the accepted working plan without any major changes. Working
groups have been working as explained in the Chapter 5 of this report.
The
chair of Working Group 2 University Curricula will be changing - professor
Jud Rouch will leave the chair to professor David Gibson. However Jud Rouch
will continue as a member of the Working Group.
3.
Annual meeting
Commission
2 organized a successful annual meeting during the Brighton Congress on
the 22nd of July. 22 participants attended the meeting. The
main topics for discussion were the working plan as well as the new working
groups. Four working groups were organized. The next annual meeting will
be organized during the Sun City PC -meeting.
The
tradition in Commission 2 is to organize the annual meeting during the
congress or working week. A commission meeting is also held during the
seminars which are organized between the congresses.
4.
Other meetings and events
Commission
2 had also another meeting for working group chairs during the Brighton
congress. The more detailed plans for working groups were made.
Working
group 2 organized a seminar “University Curricula, Teaching Method, Quality
Assurance” in October 14.-16. 1998 at Wuhan Technical University. It was
a successful seminar with more than 40 Chinese participants. Professor
Stig Enemark (Com 2), professor John Parker (Com 1) and professor Kirsi
Virrantaus (Com 2) participated . The seminar was organized by professor
Liu Yanfang, the co-chair of Working Group 2. More about the seminar can
be read on the web page of Com 2.
Commission
2 had also a minor meeting in Oulu, Finland during the CLGE general assembly,
March 1999. Professor Stig Enemark, professor Pedro Cavero, professor Kirsi
Virrantaus and directror Markku Villikka met on the 27th of
March. The topics dealt were mainly Sun City working week program, working
group news, the situation of Web pages, the further development of the
Educational Data Base and the coming seminar of Working Group 4 in Madrid
in 2000 (“Surveying Curricula and Students in FIG”).
Kirsi
Virrantaus also participated in the CLGE meeting during the discussion
on the Educational report. A joint seminar is going to be organized, probably
on the 17th of September, 1999.
5.
Working groups
Working
Group 1: Management skills, professional competencies and CPD policies
Chair:
professor Chris Hoogsteden.
Contributions
in Wuhan seminar (Stig Enemark) and Sun City working week (Chris Hoogsteden,
Stig Enemark).
Working
Group 2: Virtual acadmy - distance learning.
Chair:
professor Henrik Haggrén, co-chair professor Esben Munk Sörensen
Contributions
in Sun City working week (Esben Munk Sörensen, Bela Markus)
An
expert seminar/meeting will be organized on virtual academy probably during
the next year.
Working
Group 3: University curricula - content competencies, trends and assessment”
Chair:
professor Jud Rouch will give the chair to professor David Gibson.Liu
Yanfang will continue as the co-chair.
Contributions
in Wuhan (Liu Yanfang) and Sun City (Jud Rouch, Liu Yanfang).
Working
Group: Surveying students
Chair:
professor Pedro Cavero.
Working
Group has started a program of marketing FIG for students: already two
meetings with students have been organized in which professor Pedro Cavero
has given presentation under the title “Why to study surveying - why to
join FIG?”. The presentations as well as general FIG-info meetings have
been organized in Valencia and in Helsinki during the academic year 1998-99.
WG
4 will organize a seminar in 2000 on “Surveying Curricula and Students
in FIG”, the venue will be in Madrid. We try to activate students to attend
that seminar.
6.
Forthcoming events
Previously
mentioned joint seminar with CLGE Working Group 4 in September 1999. Working
Group 4 of Commission 2 will organize the seminar in 2000, Madrid. Working
Group 3 of Commission 2 will organize a meeting/seminar during the next
year.
7.
Information
Commission
2 Web pages have been moved from Aalborg University to HelsinkiUniversity
of Technology and linked to FIG pages (http://www.hut.fi/Units/Cartography/Fig2/).
All information as well as documents of Commission 2 are now available
there.
Two
Newsletters have been sent to the national delegates (October, February).
One more will come before Sun City and the fourth of this year will be
just after Sun City. Newsletter will also be on the Web pages.
8.
Other matters
A
manuscript of a report on “Quality Assurance in Surveying Education” will
be delivered to Bureau to be accepted in Sun City.