President Magel visits Consiglio Nazionale Geometri in Rome
Rome, Italy, February 20-23, 2005
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![Click picture for bigger format](http://vwwv.fig.net/news/archive/news_2005/italy_2005/cng_2_250.jpg) President
Holger Magel, FIG and President Piero Panunzi
at
the CNG Headquarters in Rome during the visit of the FIG President. |
Following a long lasting invitation of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG)
FIG President Holger Magel visited the Rome headquarter of the
Italian FIG member association, which even belongs to the FIG founding
members in the year 1878. Prof. Magel had a very fruitful discussion with
all members of the national council of CNG under the chair of President Piero Panunzi. President Magel thanked the Italian colleagues for their
long membership and loyalty to FIG and requested than to intensify their
commitments and contributions by showing a strong presence at the FIG events
and especially by actively taking over functions and responsibilities within
the commissions. Thus it is best guaranteed that the expertise and
experience of practitioners can play a more crucial role additionally to the
more academic or scientific contributions. Magel agreed with President
Panunzi that FIG should take care of a good balance between theory and
practice. Both aspects, theory and practice, characterise the attractiveness
and efficiency of FIG as “mother of all surveying and all surveyors”.
He further welcomed the Italian attitude to support via EGOS the exchange of
experiences in education between mainly the Mediterranean countries and
encouraged CNG to bring non FIG member countries of this region to FIG.
Finally FIG President Magel expressed his hope that CNG should apply for
future FIG events thus showing its interest to strengthen its active role as
member association with the most single individual members.
![](http://vwwv.fig.net/news/archive/news_2005/italy_2005/cng_lunch_500.jpg) President and Mrs
Ansi Magel at a lunch with the National Council of
CNG. |