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FIG President Diane Dumashie visited the local organising committee in Stavanger, Norway together with Director Louise Friis-Hansen. The meeting was two-fold - first of all getting the opportunity to meet with the local organisers and to see propsed venues in Stavanger. Second, a full day workshop was held with the City of Stavanger with a special focus on legacy.
Stavanger is in Norway called "Edge of Norway" due to its location at the south-west coast of Norway. The FIG General Assembly 2024 elected Edge of Norway - Stavanger - as destination for FIG Working Week 2027 (www.fig.net/fig2027)
Legacy in regard to a FIG Conference is close to the heart of FIG. At each Working Week and Congress we would like to leave a legacy locally and to have the city included in the topics of surveying and the related professions. We have several previous examples of legacy projects, such as planting 100 trees outside the city of Kuala Lumpur at the FIG Congress 2014, and the latest example in 2024 was a visit, planned by the FIG Task Force on Diversity, to a primary school in Accra, Ghana where a monument of a Globe was reveiled. This will hopefully inspire young people to get interested in the topics of geography, surveying, geospatial etc.
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The city of Stavanger had organised a legacy workshop, using FIG Working Week 2027 as example on how to work with potential legacy projects that can benefit both FIG, the local organisers and the City of Stavanger. Jane Cunningham, Destinations International, was invited as moderator of this workshop, and she gave a thought-provoking introduction to how to work with legacy both from an association and a destination point of view. Louise Friis-Hansen lined up the background for the yearly FIG conferences (Working Weeks and Congresses) and showed examples of previous legacy projects that FIG has worked with in cooperation with conference destinations. FIG President Diane Dumashie gave her input to the local organisers, who attended the workshop, on the focus areas of FIG Council and what might be areas of interest for FIG when in Norway.
At the following brainstorm sessions and group work a lot of creativity was shown from both the city and the local organisers from Norway coming up with various ideas for legacy projects that can benefit both them, the city and FIG.
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A city tour was organised to finalise the day in the beautiful city of Stavanger.
 At the Edge of Norway - Stavanger City and a greeting from the local organisers at the actual edge... |
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On the following day a meeting was held with the local organising committe who are already in full swing with the preparations for the Working Week. With the potential lecacy projects the conference will cover many topics of interest under the main title of "The Power of Where for the new Generation". Being located right next to the sea several topics such as Blue Ocean and Surveying the Arctic. Further to this Stavanger is working on SmartCity initiatives, Marin base maps in the coastal Zone in Norway and knowledge base for sustainable development of Norwegian coastal communities.
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You can follow the development of the Working Week on the conference site: www.fig.net/fig2027
Louise Friis-Hansen
September 2024
