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The FIG Education Foundation was established in 1996 as a
public company under the Corporation Laws of Australia. In
2000 the administration of the FIG Education Foundation was
transferred to the FIG permanent office in Copenhagen. The
General Assembly of FIG adopted the new Statutes for the FIG
Foundation at its meeting in Seoul 11 May 2001. At the same
time the original FIG Education Foundation was closed and the
new FIG Foundation officially opened under the FIG umbrella.
The purpose of the Foundation is the funding of educational
and capacity building projects and scholarships. For the over
100 years of its existence FIG has experienced a shortage of
funds to finance education projects, even though education is
vital to the surveying profession and is relevant to all the
organisational members of FIG.
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