FIG Foundation - Building a Sustainable Future
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Report from Eva Maria Unger
In the role of FIG Young Surveyors Network chair - elect, Eva Maria Unger
was funded to attend -
- FIG Pacific Small Island Developing States Symposium, Suva, Fiji
Island
- STDM – An Introduction to a pro-poor land information system, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
- LADM2013 Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- CLGE General Assembly, Chisinau, Moldova
- 1st FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
“First of all I want to say a big
Thank you to the board of the FIG Foundation. It is remarkable
and outstanding how supportive you are towards the FIG Young
Surveyors Network. All the things we are doing and in which we
are successful have always the stamp of the FIG Foundation on
it. What I want to say by that is that it would not be possible
to have this success and this angle in addressing Young
Surveyors all over the world without you.”
I, personally, of course also want to say a big big
thank you. By making it possible for me to travel to all
this events and through that making it possible to be an
ambassador of the FIG Young Surveyors Network is. I
really think it is important to talk to people and be
present and represent the Network and the idea behind
it. By showing the ability to handle challenges, events
and showing responsibility makes the Network an
important partner for organizations, professional bodies
and companies for future cooperation’s. I am proud to
represent the FIG Young Surveyors Network and I am
thankful for everything and everybody who is supporting
this idea of including YS/YP by giving them a voice.
Many many thanks again.
Below I want to give you an overview of the events I was able attend
through your support in the year 2013 and what I am thinking why it was
important for me being there.
FIG Pacific Small Island Developing States Symposium
18 – 20 September 2013, Suva, Fiki Island
Attending the FIG Pacific Small Island Developing States Symposium –
Policies and Practices for Responsible Governance organized by FIG and World
Bank gave me an insight to the multiple cooperations FIG is working on with
World Bank, UN-Habitat GLTN and UN-GGIM. Around …. People attended this
Symposium from all over the Pacific Region. Main purpose of this Symposium
was to outline the work and research in the Pacific Region is done. A big
focus was also on climate change and natural disasters they are threatening
by and discussions on a way to go. The Symposium resulted in a Fiji
Declaration, which you can find attached in the Annex. The Symposium was
scheduled in plenary sessions in the start of the morning and afternoon and
always after, two groups have been working on different aspects, one was
organized by UN-Habitat and the World Bank the other one by UN-GGIM. For
Kate and me the focus was also to identify Young Surveyors or people who can
connect us with Young Surveyors in this region. And we have been successful
and are already in e-mail contact with some of them. And of course we hope
to intense the cooperation also in this region and hopefully see some of
them in KL2014.
Also as I was arriving one day earlier I had the honor delegated by the
FIG Office to take care if everything is in place and to check if everything
is organized by the local organization. Although it was quite stressful it
was also fun and I really appreciate all the work the FIG Office is doing
now even more.
Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) – An Introduction to a pro-poor land
information system
23 September 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Organizing and Attending the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) – An
Introduction to a pro-poor land information system – was a very good
experience. After a successful training event in Abuja Peter van Oosterom
(organizer of LADM2013) addressed me asking if the FIG Young Surveyors
Network would be interested to organize such an event in conjunction with
the LADM 2013. And of course we took over the challenge. The organizer team
was including various institutions and people as you can see listed in the
Flyer attached. The Introduction to STDM was a big success with around 30
participants including young surveyors/professionals, students but also
people working in national agencies and from different regions of Malaysia.
By having such a beautiful mixture of bunch of people fruitful and intense
discussions took place. People are now keen to learn more about it and are
looking forward to probably have the possibility to take part in an extended
version of this kind of training.
LADM2013 Workshop
24 – 25 September 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Attending the LADM2013 – was again a very good experience. I attended all
the sessions related to LADM and enjoyed the atmosphere being under
high-qualified researchers and professionals. The sessions were quite
intense as all sessions included discussions on improving and extending
LADM. From the FIG Young Surveyors Network perspective it was important as
future involvement in the research and implementation of LADM could be one
chance for YS/YP to be involved also already with the perspective for KL2014
a lot organizational work could already be done directly in KL as e.g.
attending the venue, drafting the framework to include the YSC into the
congress and start working on the program.
CLGE General Assembly
3th – 5th October 2013, Chisinau, Moldova
Attending the CLGE General Assembly – was successful in every matter. And
I have great news. By presenting and being present at CLGE for the last 1 ½
years the board finally decided to have one YS/YP on their board. I think
this is great and this is exactly what we are aiming to have in all regions.
Being recognized and now even involved in one of the European professional
body shows us the success and that we are on the right way. The board of
CLGE proposed to include me for the next half a year in the board. But as
soon as possible I want to give over this position to a European Young
Surveyor. Therefore the European Meeting in Lisbon will be used to identify
the bright stars on the European sky and after they are showing their
involvement and commitment to shape the European future somebody will be
selected. About the selection process nothing is fixed yet, the only real
requirement is that the YS/YP has to be supported by their national
association and of course has to be committed and involved in the FIG Young
Surveyors Network to ensure the future cooperation.
1st FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting
16 – 18 October 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
This was the Kick-off event of the Young Surveyors European Network.
Basically the Portuguese association, Paula Dijkstra and me organized it
from scratch and put in a lot of effort to make it happen. The event was a
great success with over 150 YS/YP attending from all over Europe. We created
the event interactive and used a lot of ideas to make it memorable event.
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