CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite you to submit an abstract for FIG Working Week 2025 in Brisbane, Australia.

The theme of the FIG Working Week 2025 is to Champion what is unquestionably a Digital Generation. But for surveyors to remain relevant, and maintain our international impact while providing services not only to our members but also our global partners we will need to be collaborative, Innovative and our actions be sustainable in the face of the climate imperative.

In the context of International trends, Conference discussions will focus on the foundational issues across Political, Economic, Social, and Technological environmental trends


The Call for Papers is announced for both peer review papers and non-peer review papers.


The Theme

Collaboration, Innovation and Resilience: Championing a Digital Generation

In recent years, several transformative forces have converged, compelling our profession to redefine how we create, deliver, and communicate value within the context of sustainability. Awareness of trends and megatrends fosters preparedness and is the first step towards resilience; however, the next and immediate step in this decade demands action. The digital age will propel us forward, underscoring the urgency to act now.

The theme of the FIG Working Week 2025 is to Champion what is unquestionably a Digital Generation. But for surveyors to remain relevant, and maintain our international impact while providing services not only to our members but also our global partners we will need to be collaborative, Innovative and our actions be sustainable in the face of the climate imperative.

In the context of International trends, Conference discussions will focus on the foundational issues across Political, Economic, Social, and Technological environmental trends. The survey and geospatial profession have a significant role to play in addressing these trends, and in particular the trends in:

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Specific topics of FIG Working Week 2025

FIG Working Week is the main global event of the year, and it covers themes within all ten FIG technical Commissions, Networks, Task Forces and Permanent Institutions. Many topics are multi-disciplinary and relevant in both developing and developed world contexts. We encourage submissions of cross-disciplinary nature cutting across many disciplines/subject areas.

Proposals for papers non-peer review and peer review are requested in all topics of interest.

Sub themes/topics

The following sub themes will be central to the programme and are reflected by the four current task forces in FIG:

Each task force works closely together with all the FIG Commissions and their topics and agenda are embedded in many commission areas and in the sessions.

The FIG Climate agenda

Climate resilience is central to the future of people, the planet and our prosperity. Surveyors need to innovate in the way we serve people to achieve global and our national environmental goals for 2030. This has to be done through collaboration and partnerships – whether it be public-private partnerships, surveyors working with climate scientists, concerned corporates and with civil society. Digital innovation can help us achieve these high-level goals through increased efficiency, reduced costs and a more effective work force.

The Climate Compass Task Force will cooperate with all the FIG Commissions, Working Groups and Task Forces to mainstream climate into their areas of focus, such as ethics related to the environment (Commission 1), surveying education and the environment (Commission 2), sustainable natural resource management (Commission 3), water governance, coastal erosion and sustainable oceans (Commission 4), mitigating the impact of disaster and climate (Commission 5), disaster management and risk management (Commission 6), land administration linked to increasing security of tenure for land restoration, carbon offsets and protecting biodiversity (Commission 7), climate goals, spatial planning and climate crisis prevention (Commission 8), valuation of sustainable development actions (Commission 9), smart and green technology and the promotion of environmental responsibility (Commission 10).

COMMISSION SPECIFIC TOPICS

Professional Standards and Practice – FIG Commission 1

Geospatial Data infrastructure; Policy, Standards and Practices

Professional Education – FIG Commission 2

Frontiers in Education and Training: Keeping pace with the radically changing technological landscape through targeted professional educational interventions.

Spatial Information Management – FIG Commission 3

Spatial Information Management - Addressing global challenges and leveraging modern technological advancements

Hydrography – FIG Commission 4

Safeguarding the Blue Economy in the face of changing climate and environmental degradation

Positioning and Measurement – FIG Commission 5


Building Capacity and Competence Together in the Science and Application of Where

Engineering Surveys – FIG Commission 6

Structural Digital Twinning frameworks, applications and technologies in Engineering Surveying

Cadastre and Land Management – FIG Commission 7

Sustainable land administration for inclusive development

Spatial Planning and Development – FIG Commission 8

Leveraging land and marine spatial planning for greater resilience

Valuation and the Management of Real Estate – FIG Commission 9

Financing Local Government services through mass appraisal and land-based taxation

Construction Economics and Management – FIG Commission 10

Digitalization as the Future Vision of the Construction Industry

FIG Permanent Institutions

The Permanent Institution of History for Surveying and Measurement invites contributions on the history of surveying and measurement, and the techniques and instrumentation involved.

FIG Networks

FIG Young Surveyors Network would like to see contributions from young surveyors in all 10 Commissions.

Papers are also invited on the areas of the FIG Networks:

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

This Call for Papers is announced both for peer review papers and non-peer review papers. The submission of abstracts will be in English.  

 

SUBMIT REGULAR ABSTRACT

 

SUBMIT PEER- REVIEW ABSTRACT
(closed)

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Scientific Committee of the Technical Programme:
The Scientific Committee of the Peer Review Papers:
  • Mr. Timothy Burch, United States
  • Mr. Dimo Todorovski, Netherlands
  • Mr. Sagi Dalyot, Israel
  • Dr. Malavige Don Eranda Kanchana Gunathilaka, Sri Lanka
  • Dr. Ryan Keenan, Australia
  • Prof. Dr. Werner Lienhart, Austria
  • Dr. Rohan Bennett, Australia
  • Mr. Kwabena Asiama, Ghana
  • Mr. Peter R. Ache, Germany
  • Ms. Mercy Iortyer, Nigeria
  • Representatives from the local organisers in australia

Chief Editor:

  • Volker Schwieger, Germany

Members:

  • Timothy Burch, United States
  • Dimo Todorovski, the Netherlands
  • Werner Lienhart, Austria
  • Hartmut Müller, Germany
  • Ryan Keenan, Australia
  • Rohan Bennett, Australia
  • Adrianna Czarnecka, Poland
  • Eranda Gunathilaka, Sri Lanka
  • Heidi Falkenbach, Finland

Review team of more than 100 reviewers. For the list of reviewers, please visit: fig.net/resources/publications/prj/index.asp

HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR

1 SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

If you would like to have your paper included in the proceedings, start by submitting an abstract. You will need the following: title, abstract, keywords and biographical information.  

View our Step-by-Step Guide to submitting an abstract.

Submit your abstract here.

2 GET ACCEPTED

After we receive your abstract, it moves to the evaluation step. We welcome the submission of abstracts until 1 November. Abstracts will be reviewed by the beginning of December.

See important deadlines here.

3 REGISTER

Once your abstract is accepted, you must register to ensure that your paper will be included in the proceedings.  

Submit your registration here.

4 SUBMIT FULL PAPER & VIDEO PRESENTATION

Once your abstract is accepted, you must submit your max. 15 pages paper to TBA

View our Paper Guidelines

View our Guide to prepare a video presentation

5 PUBLICATION OF PROGRAMME

Your paper and video presentation will be included in a session as background material and will be available before the Working Week starts.

6 ATTEND THE WORKING WEEK

Enjoy the Working Week and connect with fellow participants.

A selection of authors from the open call will be invited as presenter/panelist in sessions.

 

 

SUBMIT REGULAR ABSTRACT

 

SUBMIT PEER- REVIEW ABSTRACT
(closed)

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Non Peer Reviewed /Regular Papers

Peer Reviewed Papers

19 December 2024
1 December 2024
  Deadline for authors to submit non peer reviewed/regular abstracts.   Deadline for authors to submit abstract and full papers for peer review.
24 January 2025
15 December 2024
 

Confirmation to authors of acceptance of non peer reviewed abstracts.

  First notification to authors of acceptance of peer reviewed papers to be included in the peer review process.
Authors of papers not accepted for peer review will be offered to convert the paper to the non peer review process.
1 February 2025
  Deadline for authors to submit revised full paper for 2nd round of peer review (depending on proposed corrections from reviewers).
24 February 2025
      Second notification to authors of acceptance of peer reviewed papers with the possibility of further modifications from the 2nd round of peer review.

All Papers (peer reviewed and non peer reviewed)

03 February 2025
  Deadline early bird
Deadline for non-peer review authors to register.
Deadline for all authors to submit Full Papers (not peer review).
03 March 2025
  Deadline for normal registration.
Deadline for peer review authors to register
16 March 2025
  Notification to authors with session info
Technical programme will be published on the web.
6-10 April 2025
  FIG WORKING WEEK - BRISBANE AUSTRALIA

 

 

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