News in 2019
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FIG Young Surveyors Regional Events
During the second half of 2019 two Young Surveyors regional events
were held - in Europe and in Africa.
6th YSEM - 11-12 October 2019 in Porto, Portugal
The success of previous FIG Young Surveyors events have paved
the road to yet another collaboration of Young Surveying Students
and Young Professionals.
The 6th Young Surveyors European Meeting was held in the
beautiful city of Porto, Portugal on the 11th and 12th of October 2019.
About 40 keen young professionals and students from 15
countries gathered together to share and explore new ideas, address
pressing issues and focus on the future development for the European
YS Network.
The future of Young Surveyors, as professionals as well as
individuals, in mapping the path to sustainability was the focus of this
meeting.
To continue the charity purposes of these kind of events we organized
a charity Walking tour where the funds reverted to FIG Foundation and
Forestis, a local non-profit.
2nd YSAM - 25-26 November 2019 in Dakar, Senegal
Following the successful 6th FIG Young Surveyor’s European meeting,
the FIG Young Surveyors Africa held its second meeting together with the
newly formed Federation of Francophone Surveyors’ (FGF) Young Surveyors
Network. The bilingual meeting successfully brought together over 50
young surveyors from about 20 countries in the francophone and
anglophone world.
With 10 years to meet the SDGs, the meeting held under the theme,
“Connecting the Generations for Our Common Future”, highlighted the
continued link between the young and seasoned surveyors, as well as the
contribution of young surveyors to meeting the global sustainable
development agenda through the SDGs. There were presentations from a
cross section of young surveyors and FIG partners, as well as group
activities that, not only served to brainstorm the young surveyor’s role
in the global development agenda within the African context and on the
Global scale, but also served as an environment for Young Surveyors from
different countries and cultures, with different academic and
professional backgrounds to discuss issues facing the region, and plan
for a more resilient future. All this took place in the warm atmosphere
of Dakar, Senegal, where young surveyors enjoyed the legendary
Senegalese hospitality, Teranga.
Dakar Senegal
December 2019
