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CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2025 – Winners Announced at INTERGEO
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2025 are as follows:
Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Category:
1. First Prize – María Pedrote Sanz – Analysis of patterns and tendencies of pickpockets in Madrid (UCAM Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)
2. Second Prize – Junior Van der Haegen – From tomb to digital map: digitizing and mapping original archives of an Egyptological site using webGIS and linked data (Catholic University of Leuven, KU Leuven, Belgium)
3. Third Prize – Álvaro Verdú Candela – Determination of the historical ownership of urban plots in Alcoy during the 17th and 18th centuries and publication of a geoportal for its visualization and consultation (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Doctoral Degree Category:
1. First Prize – Laura Crocetti – Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Detection of Spatio-Temporal Patterns linked to Geophysical Phenomena in GNSS Time Series (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland)
2. Second Prize – Randa Natraš – Machine Learning for Modeling and Forecasting the Ionosphere, Including Space Weather Effects and Uncertainty Quantification (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
3. Third Prize – Paweł Trybała – 3D Surveying of Mining Environments using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy)
Video of the Awarding Ceremony 2025
About the Young Surveyors’ Contest 2025
This is the fourth year in a row that we came together at INTERGEO to announce the winners of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest (YSC). The Awarding Ceremony, which was the culmination of the CLGE YSC 2025, took place on 8 October 2025 at INTERGEO in Frankfurt (DE). Thanks to Nele Vanhoutte (BE) the ceremony was well attended, especially by students from Belgium.
We launched this year’s Contest on 28 February 2025 and by the submission deadline of 28 July we had received 30 applications. The Contest Jury selected the six best applications in the combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Category and the six best applications in the Doctoral Degree Category for the online Contest Finals which took place on 22 September. If you are interested to know which applications were selected to compete in the Finals, you can read all the applications here and watch the recordings here. (Please note only the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Category are currently online, the Doctoral Category videos will follow soon).
Jānis Klīve, Chair of the Jury, opened the ceremony, welcomed all the attendees and made a short presentation about the Contest. As Chair of the Jury, he expressed his gratitude to all the participants, the Jury members, and our supporters including: DVW, BDVI, Leica Geosystems, Riegl, GeoWeb, Geofoncier, Teria and EUSPA.
All the winners then made a short overview presentation of their papers based on their studies. Jury member, General Director & CTO of EXAGONE-TERIA, Paul Chambon announced the winners in the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree category and presented their prizes. In the same way, Jury member Bernhard Richter, Vice President Geomatics Product Management, Leica Geosystems AG, announced the winners in the Doctoral Degree category and presented their prizes.
At the conclusion of the ceremony Jānis Klīve congratulated all participants and encouraged young surveyors to get ready for next year’s Contest. After the awarding ceremony everyone was invited to celebrate the event and congratulate the winners.
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