FIG Working Week 2009 in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May

12 February 2009, 8:00pm

Invitation to the FIG Working Week 2009 in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009

Register now – early bird registration closes 26 February 2009

We invite you to the FIG Working Week 2009, which will take place in Eilat, a resort city at the southernmost edge of Israel, on the shores of the Red Sea. The Working Week be held on 3-8 May 2009, at the 5*deluxe Herods & Dan Eilat Hotels. We expect to host more than 600 participants from all over the world.

The professional theme of the Working Week is “Surveyors Key Role in Accelerated Development”, which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. As always, the Working Week will gather international professionals and academia members from the fields of land surveying, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, environmental awareness, and civil engineering. In the technical programme we have more than 250 presentations in about 60 technical sessions, seminars and workshops. Technical programme covers all ten FIG technical commissions (Professional Standards and Practice; Professional Education; Spatial Information Management; Hydrography; Positioning and Measurement; Engineering Surveys; Cadastre and Land Management; Spatial Planning and Development; Valuation and the Management of Real Estate; and Construction Economics and Management. A special seminar on the history of surveying and measurement will be held on Sunday 3 May 2009. The draft technical programme is available at the link below. Some late coming proposals can still be accepted in the programme.

The conference web site and registration are at the links below. Please notice that the early bird registration closes 26 February 2009. When you make your registration, please book your hotel at the same. We recommend booking one of the two conference hotels: Dan Eilat Hotel or Herods Hotel that both offer excellent value for money. Please check the flight information on the web for flights between Tel Aviv and Eilat.

In the conference programme we offer technical tours to the Israel - Egypt and Israel - Jordan boundaries; to the research tunnel at Mount Amram; to the copper mines of Timna; and to the City of Eilat. They will all be most interesting, not only from professional, but also from tourist point of view.

The tours offered before, during and after the conference, will permit the participants to taste the tourist attractions of Israel, many of them important to Christians, Moslems and Jews, from the Northern areas of the country of Accre and Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee and Beit Shaan, through the centre of the three religions in Jerusalem, through the Judean Desert, the Dead Sea, the breathtaking Metzada down to Eilat and to Petra, in Jordan. All the mentioned sites and many others, draw many tourists from all over the world, amongst them the 3 millions who visited Israel in 2008.

The Licensed Surveyors Association in Israel – ALSI, our host association in Israel, has decided to offer three complimentary tickets for the excursion to Petra (on Saturday, 9 May 2008) and three complimentary tickets to the FIG Foundation Dinner (on Thursday 7 May 2009). The lucky winners will be found by drawing lots between those participants who have registered during the early bird registration period. So there is one more reason to register before 26 February 2009.

Any inquiries on registration and requests for invitation letters as well as on pre- and post conference tours, please contact the conference office: FIG WW 2009, ORTRA, 1 Nirim St., P O BOX 9352 , Tel Aviv 61092, Israel, Tel: 972-3-6384444, Fax: 972-3-6384455, E-mail: fig@ortra.com.

FIG Working Week 2009 draft technical programme

Conference web site

Conference registration

Geo: International