News

Monsieur Bernard BOUR 1952 – 2019

It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing, on 8 November 2019 at the age of 67 years, of our dear friend, colleague and former CLGE President Monsieur Bernard Bour.

A service of thanksgiving will take place at 14:00 on Thursday 14 November in the Ecumenical Chapel of Metz Crematorium which is located at 1 impasse des Hauts Peupliers. The formal announcement in French is available here.

CLGE President Maurice Barbieri wish to expresses his condolences to Bernard’s family and friends on behalf of all of at CLGE.

The ‘Istanbul Declaration’

The Istanbul Declaration on ethical principles for the profession of geodetic surveying was signed by CLGE President Maurice Barbieri and President of the Chamber of Survey and Cadastre Engineers Orhan Kasap on 28 September 2019 in Istanbul (TR).

FIG Working Week 2020 – save the date

The FIG Working Week 2020 will take place in Amsterdam (NL) from Sunday 10th, to Thursday 14th May 2020. Please save the date in your calendar.

Results of the CLGE Students’ Contest 2019

The CLGE Students’ Contest Awarding ceremony took place on 18 September 2019 in Stuttgart, (DE).

GISCAD-OV Accepted in Horizon 2020

After many years of fruitful cooperation with the GSA (since the CLGE Seminar in Umeå – 2011) CLGE managed to submit a successful bid at the European Commission. Together with a strong consortium led by the Italian GeoWeb and SOGEI, the GISCAD-OV project was approved by the European Commission on 14 August 2019 within the H2020 Programme.

CLGE gets fair with our Atmosphere

In Dublin, the CLGE Ex-Board has decided to compensate the Carbon Offset of its meetings from now on. This is done in cooperation with www.atmosfair.de

The certificate can be read here.

Professional ethics, a landmark for geodetic surveyors

On 26 September 2019, CLGE and the Turkish Chamber of Survey and Cadastre Engineers organizes a the VI CLGE Conference of the European Surveyor at the Grand Cevahir Hotel and Convention Center in Istanbul.