Due to the current COVID-19 situation and knowing that it might be difficult to meet in the Netherlands in June 2021, the FIG Working Week has been transformed into the FIG e-Working Week – in other words a virtual conference.
We are all coming to terms with and learning to adapt to our new, digital lifestyles and striving to maintain a semblance of normality, but the desire to see and hear from colleagues and friends becomes even more powerful when we are forced to be apart. FIG is determined to bring our global community together. Our world might be changing, but we still crave experiences and our desire to connect has never been stronger.
FIG and the local organisers from the Netherlands have started the process to transform the FIG Working Week to a virtual experience fitting with the needs of the FIG community. And we promise FIG e-Working Week 2021 will
In other words: After attending FIG e-Working Week 2021 you will be: inspired, (re)connected, energized, gained knowledge and feel part of a community.
The FIG Working Week 2021 has been transformed into a virtual e-Working Week. This means that the conference format will be different from a “normal” Working Week since it is not possible to meet in person; however, this will open for new online opportunities. A virtual attendance gives possibility for many to attend, who will not have the option to travel, so we hope to meet many at the e-Working Week.
The e-Working Week will be a mixture of sessions within the overall theme and topics and related to the work of the ten FIG Commissions and Networks and other activities following our overall aims that FIG Conferences shall provide: learning, connections and networking. The e-Working Week will therefore be composed both by sessions – plenary, high level, commission and also other activities that have the aim to bring participants together in the FIG Community.
As attendee of the FIG e-Working Week we will offer you five days of intensive learning, exchanging and experiences and being part of the FIG Community. A fee will give you full access to the live and on demand sessions, meeting rooms, discussion boards, various networking possibilities and the proceedings. Since the event will be virtual, the fees will be significantly lower than our regular FIG Working Weeks, allowing the whole FIG Community with over 250.000 members from 120 countries to join in this event.
You are encouraged to submit an abstract. The procedure will be different for this e-Working Week. Abstracts will be reviewed and if you abstract is approved, you will be asked to submit a full paper and a video presentation. The video presentation must not be longer than 4 minutes. All abstracts, papers, presentation handouts and videos will be included in the final proceedings. Papers and video presentations will be included in sessions as background material and will be available before the e-Working Week starts. A selection of authors from the open call for papers will be invited as presenter / panelist directly in sessions.
We look forward to meeting you online to a different and exciting event.
Yours sincerely,
| Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
FIG Director/ Co-Conference Director |
Ms. Paula Dijkstra
Co-conference Director |
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