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APPENDIX TO ITEM 11.2 Report for the 23rd General AssemblyFIG Working Week in Prague, 22-26 May 2000Commission 2: Professional EducationWorking GroupsThe Working groups of Commission 2 have had the following activities since Sun City: Work done for the Working Week in Prague
We have prepared the following meetings which will take place in Prague:
Surveying Education DatabaseSome work has been done for the development of the FIG Surveying Education Database. Finally the FIG office took the responsibility of the practical efforts to get the SEDB to Internet use. The SEDB is now available on the FIG home page (http://www.ddl.org/figtree). The SEDB will be presented at the General Assembly in Prague and the universities and institutions on the database will receive their access code and password to update their information during the spring. Newsletters and other mediaTwo newsletters have been distributed after Sun City (September 1999 and February 2000). Newsletters are also available on Commission 2 Web site as well as other information about Commission 2. The web site of Commission 2 has been updated in March 2000. Address to the web site is http://www.hut.fi/Units/Cartography/fig2.html. Workshops in Argentina and MaltaCommission work was discussed during the ACCO meeting in Copenhagen by Commission Chair Kirsi Virrantaus and Vice-Chair Pedro Cavero. After the Working Week in Prague the next big effort is the realization of Commission 2 Workshop in Rosario, Argentina. This Workshop will take place 18-20 October 2000. The call for papers is delivered for the workshop. The main organizers come from Argentina, but all papers go through Commission. Commission 2 has also been preparing some presentations for the Seminar in Malta, 18-21 September 2000. PublicationsMorgan, P. , Hodgkinson, R. , Enemark, S., Quality Assurance in Surveying Education, FIG Commission 2 Working Group on Quality Assurance, FIG Publication no 19, September 1999. Prof. Kirsi Virrantaus 3 March 2000 |