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 2019-2022 FIG Commission 2 will be working on:

For the full work plan, please visit Work Plan 2019-2022
(Original work plan .pdf-format )

 

Learn more about how Commission 2 is working with the SDG's

News

Commission 2, Chair Elect

August 2021

The General Assembly elected Mr. Dimo Todorovski from the Netherlands, GIN, as the Chair Elect of Commission 2, the elected Chair Elect term as the Chair of the Commission will be initiated at the FIG Congress 2022 for the period 2023-2026.

Commission 2 at FIG Congress 2022

October 2022

The Congress took place 11-15 September in Warsaw, Poland. Commission 2 held its annual meeting with outset in their prepared Report and Agenda. Commission 2 was also involved in sessions covering Commission 2 areas within the theme of Smart Surveyors for Volunteering for the future Geospatial excellence for a better living. Read more

 

Academic Forum

October 2022

Each year the Academic Members meet at the Academic Forum held in conjunction with the FIG Working Week.

This year the Forum was held in conjunchtion with FAO. More details and concept note

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIG Working Week 2023

28 June-1 July 2023 in Orlando, USA

www.fig.net/fig2023

 

September 2021

FIG Commission 2,Virtual 2021 seminar and meeting

August 2021

Commission 1 at FIG Working Week 2021

October 2020

FIG Commission 2 Newsletter
 
 

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 [at] fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Developing academic networks for knowledge sharing (WG 2.1)
Dimo Todorovski, the Netherlands

Curriculum on the Move (WG 2.2)
Mohsen Kalantari, Australia

Learning styles in surveying education (Joint WG with YSN)
Melissa Harrington, United States
Chethna Ben, Fiji
Franka Grubisic, Croatia
Mudit Kapoor, India

List of all officers

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.

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  

 

Each year the Academic Members meet at the Academic Forum held in conjunction with the FIG Working Week. The latest years the Forum has been held in cooperation with UN FAO. To be updated.

...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
 

Terms

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

Working Groups

Term 2019-2022 
WG2.1: Developing academic networks for knowledge sharing
WG2.2: Innovative learning and teaching / "Curriculum on the Move"
WG2.3: Learning styles in surveying education (Joint WG with YSN)

All working groups

 

FIG Academic Members

List of members
How to become a member

Newsletters

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 events

Reports to General Assembly

All reports