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Appendix to item 9.2
Report for the 24th General Assembly
FIG Working Week in Seoul, 6-11 May 2001
COMMISSION 2 - PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
General
Commission 2 has been working according to the work plan. The planned
symposium has been organised in Rosario and Commission officers have
participated in several other occasions like CLGE seminar in Delft, Malta
Seminar and of course FIG working week in Prague. Two newsletters have been
published and web site updated. Among the Working Groups WG 2 has been the most
active and is currently preparing the next Workshop on Virtual Academy.
Work plan
Commission 2 has followed the accepted work plan without major changes. Minor
changes in responsibilities happened in the development of SEDB where Commission
only took part in the design of the new system but the implementation and
further update was decided to be made by the FIG Office.
Commission meetings
Annual meeting of Commission was held during the FIG working week in Prague
as well as two open meetings were organised, each of them attracting 10-15
participants. Commission Meeting took place on 22nd May, the Open Meeting on
Virtual Academy on 23rd and the Open Meeting for Surveying Students on 24th May.
In the meetings Commission Vice Chair Pedro Cavero informed on the Rosario
(Argentina) Symposium, October 2000, and Esben Munk Sørensen and Henrik
Haggrén introduced the plans for the WG Seminar in Espoo, Otaniemi June 2001.
Working Week and other Seminars and Symposia
During the working week In Prague Commission 2 organised one technical
session with four presentations (Henrik Haggrén and Esben Munk Sørensen, Bela
Markus, Ales Cepek and Josef Hnojil, Jud Rouch and Svato Michalcak).
FIG Commission 2 organised a Symposium "Surveying in the Third
Millennium: Universitary Formation and Professional Development" in
Rosario, Argentina, 18-20 October 2000. Vice Chair Pedro Cavero was the main
organiser together with the local organisers, Schools of Agrimensura of Rosario
and Santiago del Estero National Universities. In the Symposium there were 128
participants from 10 different countries and 18 papers. Three round table
meetings were also held. Pedro Cavero and Stig Enemark gave presentations. Pedro
Cavero outlined the future plans for Commission 2.
In addition to the Prague Working week and the Rosario Symposium, Commission
officers took part in the ACCO meeting in Copenhagen in January 2000 (Cavero,
Virrantaus) and Malta Seminar (Cavero, Enemark, Virrantaus gave presentations)
as well as the CLGE Seminar in Delft.
Working Groups
- Working Group 1: Management skills, professional competencies and CPD
policies
Contributions are somehow overlapping with the Task Force on Mutual
Recognition. The WG will finish its work and give the final report in
Washington Congress.
- Working Group 2: Virtual academy - distance learning
WG Chair Henrik Haggrén and Esben Munk Sørensen are organising a Workshop
and Seminar on Virtual Academy. More information about it in Chapter 6.
- Working Group 3: University curricula - content competencies, trends and
assessment
Jud Rouch is chairing the WG. The main goal has been to collect information
on various approaches and models in surveyors' education. Presentations have
been given on curricula in USA, Europe, Asia and Latin America (presentations
in Wuhan seminar, Sun City and Prague Working Weeks, Malta seminar and Rosario
Symposium). The goal is to produce a model which could be used in comparing
and describing various curricula. SEDB will be a part of this approach. Kirsi
Virrantaus is co-working with the chair.
- Working Group 4: Surveying students
Vice Chair Pedro Cavero is in chair. The main goal has been to organise FIG
seminars and symposiums outside Europe and USA, so that as many young
surveyors and students as possible could participate. Another goal is to
develop the SEDB to be more useful also for students when searching for
information about study possibilities abroad.
A new Working Group was established under Commission 9, "Education of
Valuers", chaired by Professor Kauko Viitanen (Finland) on the proposal of
Commission 2.
Forthcoming events
As mentioned WG 2 will organise a Workshop and Seminar on Virtual Academy 5-8
June 2001. The Seminar will be organised at Helsinki University of Technology,
Lifelong Learning Institute, DIPOLI in Espoo, Finland. Further information on
the seminar in available on web site: www.dipoli.hut.fi/geomatiikka.
Commission 2 will organise two technical sessions with ten papers on Virtual
Academy and Surveyors' Curricula during the next working week in Seoul in May
2001. Commission 2 has also co-operated with Commission 9 in getting papers on
Education of Valuers as well as supported with the invited speakers to the
plenary sessions. Commission 2 will also have its annual meeting in Seoul.
Information
SEDB is now available in web. Universities have their passwords for updating.
Academic members have been linked to the site.
Co-operation with sister societies, especially ICA and ISPRS seem to be
important especially on the topic of virtual academy. In the future the Chairs
of Commissions on Education in ICA and ISPRS are invited and encouraged to
participate in the Commissions seminars as well as the working weeks.
Newsletters will be also sent to the corresponding chairs. Newsletters and other
related material are available on Commission 2 web site.
Prof. Kirsi Virrantaus
Chair of FIG Commission 2 (Professional Education)
Email: kirsi.virrantaus@hut.fi
26 February 2001
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