FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education

 

"The focus of FIG Commission 2 is on innovative and effective professional education and training for surveyors. The commission is focusing on developing academic networks for knowledge sharing, Innovative learning and teaching / "Curriculum on the Move" and Learning styles in surveying education"

 

What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 2 will be working on:

PDF: Work plan
VIDEO: Chair of the Commission Dimo Todorovski takes you through the work plan

Chair of FIG Commission 2:
Dimo
Todorovski, The Netherlands

 

Learn more about how Commission 2 is working with the SDGs


News

EVENTS


FIG Congress 2026

24-29 May 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa

www.fig.net/fig2026


Commission 2 at FIG Working Week 2025

The FIG Working Week 2025 was held from 6-10 April in Brisbane, Australia. During the conference, Commission 2 had organised severaly sessions in the tehcnical programme and conducted its annual meeting. Additionally, the progress of all commissions was presented at the General Assembly.

> Commission 2 annual report to General Assembly
> Minutes - General Assembly
> Report - General Assembly 
> Proceedings/Technical programme
> Conference Website

 

Newsletter

January 2025

 

Commission 2 at FIG Working Week 2024

 The FIG Working Week 2024 was held from 19-24 May in Accra, Ghana. During the conference, Commission 2 had organised severaly sessions in the tehcnical programme and conducted its annual meeting. Additionally, the progress of all commissions was presented at the General Assembly.

> Annual report to General Assembly
> Minutes General Assembly
> Proceedings/Technical programme
> Report Annual Meeting
> Conference Website

 

More News from FIG Commission 2

 

Publications

 

Work Plans

   

Proceedings

 

Working Groups

 

Key Documents

Events


Meet the officers

Commission Chair

Dr. Dimo Todorovski, The Netherlands
Contact: FIGCommission2@fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Vice Chair of Administration FIG Commission 2
Rosario Casanova, Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay casanova@fing.edu.uy

Chair of Working Group 2.1
Developing and strengthening academic networks

Francis Roy, Laval University, Canada francis.roy@scg.ulaval.ca

Chair of Working Group 2.2
Innovation in curriculum development implementation

William Kelly, University of Glasgow, Scotland, william.kelly@glasgow.ac.uk

Chair of Working Group 2.3
Young Surveyors in Education

Dimo Todorovski, University of Twente, the Netherlands d.todorovski@utwente.nl

Chair of Working Group 2.4
Land Administration Education

Simon Hull, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa, simon.hull@uct.ac.za

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Commission Delegates and correspondents

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.


Achievements

“E-learning is a learning process created by interaction with digitally delivered content, network-based services and tutoring support." 
The report aims to bring together the experiences and viewpoints within FIG on the role of e-learning in surveying education. Read the Publication

The FIG Foundation raises funds to secure a sustainable future for surveyors. It provides significant grants to support life-long learning and career paths of surveyors, and has been instrumental in bringing young surveyors into the FIG Community. Commission 2 has been represented in the Board in the current term by the Commission 2 chair David Mitchell. More information  

 

It became clear that disaster risk reduction is a knowledge domain of its own. Disaster risk reduction has its own particular issues, own approaches and own technologies. To include disaster risk reduction in the curriculum of the surveyor and land professional means allocating enough quality time and think carefully about the set-up and content of the program and the teaching approaches. More information

   
 

Working Groups

Term 2023-2026: Work Plan

WG 2.1 - Developing and strengthening academic networks
WG 2.2 - Innovation in curriculum development implementation
WG 2.3 - Young Surveyors in Education - Learning styles in surveying education
WG 2.4 - Land Administration Education with WG 7.7

Previous terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

FIG Academic Members

List of members
How to become a member

Newsletters

Newsletter January 2025
Newsletter 2020
Newsletter 2019
Newsletter 2017

FIG Publications

FIG Pub. no. 49: Enhancing Surveying Education through e-Learning

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Events

All Commission 2 events

Reports to General Assembly

All Commission 2 reports