FIG Commission 2
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REPORT TO THE 22ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN FIG PC -MEETING IN SUN CITY
JUNE 1999
Kirsi Virrantaus
1.General
Commission 2 has been working actively and according to the work
plan. The planned seminar and meetings have been organized and
information on these happenings as well as general news have been
delivered via Newsletters and Web pages. Some minor changes have
happened in the composition of working groups as well as in nominations
of national delegates.
2. Work Plan
Commission 2 has followed the accepted working plan without any major
changes. Working groups have been working as explained in the Chapter 5
of this report.
The chair of Working Group 2 University Curricula will be changing -
professor Jud Rouch will leave the chair to professor David Gibson.
However Jud Rouch will continue as a member of the Working Group.
3. Annual Meeting
Commission 2 organized a successful annual meeting during the
Brighton Congress on the 22nd of July. 22 participants attended the
meeting. The main topics for discussion were the working plan as well as
the new working groups. Four working groups were organized. The next
annual meeting will be organized during the Sun City PC -meeting.
The tradition in Commission 2 is to organize the annual meeting
during the congress or working week. A commission meeting is also held
during the seminars which are organized between the congresses.
4. Other Meetings and Events
Commission 2 had also another meeting for working group chairs during
the Brighton congress. The more detailed plans for working groups were
made.
Working group 2 organized a seminar ?University Curricula, Teaching
Method, Quality Assurance? in October 14.-16. 1998 at Wuhan Technical
University. It was a successful seminar with more than 40 Chinese
participants. Professor Stig Enemark (Com 2), professor John Parker (Com
1) and professor Kirsi Virrantaus (Com 2) participated . The seminar was
organized by professor Liu Yanfang, the co-chair of Working Group 2.
More about the seminar can be read on the web page of Com 2.
Commission 2 had also a minor meeting in Oulu, Finland during
the CLGE general assembly, March 1999. Professor Stig Enemark, professor
Pedro Cavero, professor Kirsi Virrantaus and directror Markku Villikka
met on the 27th of March. The topics dealt were mainly Sun City working
week program, working group news, the situation of Web pages, the
further development of the Educational Data Base and the coming seminar
of Working Group 4 in Madrid in 2000 (?Surveying Curricula and Students
in FIG?).
Kirsi Virrantaus also participated in the CLGE meeting during the
discussion on the Educational report. A joint seminar is going to be
organized, probably on the 17th of September, 1999.
5. Working groups
Working Group 1: Management skills, professional
competencies and CPD policies
Chair: professor Chris Hoogsteden.
Contributions in Wuhan seminar (Stig Enemark) and Sun City working
week (Chris Hoogsteden, Stig Enemark).
Working Group 2: Virtual acadmy - distance learning.
Chair: Professor Henrik Haggrén,
co-chair: Professor Esben Munk Sörensen
Contributions in
Sun City working week (Esben Munk Sörensen, Bela Markus) An expert
seminar/meeting will be organized on virtual academy probably during the
next year.
Working Group 3: University curricula - content competencies,
trends and assessment?
Chair: Professor Jud Rouch will give the chair to
professor David Gibson.Liu Yanfang will continue as the co-chair.
Contributions in Wuhan (Liu Yanfang) and Sun City (Jud Rouch, Liu
Yanfang).
Working Group: Surveying students
Chair: Professor Pedro Cavero.
Working Group has started a program of marketing FIG for students:
already two meetings with students have been organized in which
professor Pedro Cavero has given presentation under the title ?Why to
study surveying - why to join FIG??. The presentations as well as
general FIG-info meetings have been organized in Valencia and in
Helsinki during the academic year 1998-99.
WG 4 will organize a seminar
in 2000 on ?Surveying Curricula and Students in FIG?, the venue will be
in Madrid. We try to activate students to attend that seminar.
6.
Forthcoming events
Previously mentioned joint seminar with CLGE Working
Group 4 in September 1999. Working Group 4 of Commission 2 will organize
the seminar in 2000, Madrid. Working Group 3 of Commission 2 will
organize a meeting/seminar during the next year.
7. Information
Commission 2 Web pages have been moved from Aalborg University to
HelsinkiUniversity of Technology and linked to FIG pages (http://www.hut.fi/Units/Cartography/Fig2/).
All information as well as documents of Commission 2 are now available
there.
Two Newsletters have been sent to the national delegates
(October, February). One more will come before Sun City and the fourth
of this year will be just after Sun City. Newsletter will also be on the
Web pages.
8. Other matters
A manuscript of a report on ?Quality
Assurance in Surveying Education? will be delivered to Bureau to be
accepted in Sun City.
