FIG Working Week 2012 to Be Held in Partnership with FAO -
FIG Delegation Visits Rome to Prepare the Working Week Programme
Rome, Italy, 8-9 April 2011
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Mika Törhönen, FAO, President
CheeHai
Teo, Chryssy Potsiou, Maria Scorza, Markku
Villikka, President Fausto Savoldi, CNGGL, Bruno Razza
and Enrico Rispoli at the roof of CNGGL Headquarters in
Piazza Colonna. |
FIG Working Week 2012 will be held at the Rome Cavalieri Hotel in Rome
6-11 May 2012. The conference is hosted jointly by FIG and the Consiglio
Nazuionale Geometri e Geometri Laureati, CNGGL. The main themes of the
conference will be "Knowing to: ● Manage the
territory ● Protect the environment
● Evaluate the cultural heritage. These themes
that will guide the three days of the technical conference were endorsed
during the visit of the FIG delegation to Rome on April 8 and 9, 2011. The
visit was at the same time the first official visit of President CheeHai
Teo to a FIG member association. President Teo accompanied by Vice
President Chryssy Potsiou and FIG Director met with President Fausto Savoldi, CNGGL and his board members.
The visit included discussions also with representatives of UN FAO and it
was confirmed that FAO will be partnering FIG at the 2012 Working Week in
Rome.
In discussions with CNGGL it was further confirmed that the first FIG
Young Surveyors Conference will be held back-to-back with the Working Week,
on 4-5 May 2011 in Rome. This new initiative in the Council is targeted at
young surveying professionals to assist them to participate in FIG's
international conferences at affordable costs. The conference is aimed at
young professionals under 35 years including students. The programme will be
planned jointly between FIG, its Young Surveyors Network and CNGGL.
The delegation visited also the conference venue Rome Cavalieri that
offers excellent facilities for all meetings and a marvellous view over
historical Rome. The programme of the Working Week will introduce among
others a first class opening ceremony with a concert at the Auditorium Parco
della Musica designed by Renzo Piano.
President
Fausto Savoldi. Mika Törhönen, President
CheeHai Teo, Chryssy Potsiou and Maria Scorza in
CNGGL. |
Organisers of FIG 2012 at the roof of Rome Cavalieri with view over
Rome.
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17 April 2011
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