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	Gala concert to celebrate the 60th volume of Geodetski vestnik  
		2 September 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia
		The Association of Surveyors of 
		Slovenia organized the gala concert to celebrate the 60th 
		Volume of Geodetski vestnik, the professional journal of the 
		Association. The concert was organized under 
		the auspices of the president of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr. Borut 
		Pahor. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Staiger, FIG vice-president, gave a 
		festal speech to the auditorium. In the framework of this visit, prof. 
		dr. Rudolf Staiger met also Irena Majcen, minister of the environment 
		and spatial planning, the representatives of the Slovenian Surveying and 
		Mapping Authority and the representatives of the Faculty of Civil and 
		Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana.
		
		
			
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 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Staiger, FIG vice-president and Irena Majcen, 
				 minister of the environment and spatial planning of the 
				Republic of Slovenia (Souce: ZGS)  | 
  
				 Gregor Budal as a land surveyour Ivan Lisec from the novel of 
				Josip Jurcic (1876) (Foto: Klemen Brumec, ZGS)
 
 
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 Festive speech, prof. dr. Rudolf Staiger, FIG vice-president 
				(Photo: Klemen Brumec, ZGS)  |  
 Blaž Mozetič, the presidentof the Association of Surveyors of 
				Slovenia (Photo: Klemen Brumec)  | 
			
				|  Big Band of the Slovenian Armed Forces Band, in the background 
				prof. dr. Rudolf Staiger (FIG vice--president), Blaž Mozetič 
				(the president of the Association of Surveyors of Slovenia), dr. 
				Anka Lisec (Editor-in-Chief of Geodetski vestnik, Julius Ernst 
				(president of the Austrian Association of Surveyors (Foto: 
				Klemen Brumec, ZGS)  |  
 Big Band of the Slovenian Armed Forces Band with soloist Iva 
				Stanič (Foto: Klemen Brumec, ZGS) 
 
 
 
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		About Geodetski vestnik
		Geodetski vestnik is the official journal of the Association of 
		Surveyors of Slovenia (ZGS). It publishes scientific and professional 
		peer-reviewed papers, professional discussions, reports and reviews, 
		results of higher education or scientific works, terminological 
		professional articles and other similar works. Dr. Anka Lisec, the 
		current Chief-Editor of Geodetski vestnik, pointed out that the articles 
		are printed in English or Slovenian language. As bulletin of the 
		Association of Surveyors of Slovenia it publishes also reports of the 
		state surveying and mapping authority, professional informative 
		articles, polemics, documents of the association, communications to 
		members, memorial and similar records, advertisements and tenders, in 
		short, articles of popular character. In the past decades, Geodetski 
		vestnik has become an important regional and international platform for 
		publications of the newest scientific and professional achievements 
		among the scientists and professionals in the region and at the broader 
		international level, who work in the fields of geodesy, surveying, 
		geoinformatics, spatial planning, and in the other to the aforementioned 
		related fields. The journal is abstracted and indexed in several 
		international bibliographic databases, including in WoS, SSCI, JCR/SSE, 
		GEOBASE(TM), ICONDA, DOAJ, GeoRef, Environmental Sciences.
		
		Meeting with the Association of Surveyors of Slovenia
		
		
		During his stay in Slovenia, FIG Vice President Staiger also had the 
		opportunity to meet members from the Association of Surveyors of 
		Slovenia.
		
		 
		
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		September 2016