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Appendix to item 29.1
Report for the 24th General Assembly
FIG Working Week in Seoul, 6-11 May 2001
REPORT OF THE FIG FOUNDATION
General
The FIG Education Foundation had its Annual Meeting and
meeting of the Board of Directors during the FIG Working Week 2000 in Prague. At
this meeting it was decided to propose to the General Assembly that it decides
to establish an FIG Foundation under FIG administration by transferring the FIG
Education Foundation from Australia to Denmark and making the necessary legal
actions and commitments and by keeping the goals and principles of the FIG
Education Foundation as long as possible. This decision was then confirmed by
the General Assembly.
Administration
The preparations to transfer the administration of the
Foundation from Australia to Denmark started immediately after the General
Assembly although the adoption of the new statutes and rules for the FIG
Foundation was postponed to the next Annual Meeting and the meeting of the Board
of Directors and the FIG General Assembly. These meetings took place in Seoul,
Korea in May, 2001. The Statutes of the FIG Foundation were adopted at the
Annual Meeting in Seoul and then confirmed by the FIG General Assembly 11 May
2001. At the same time the FIG Education Foundation was formally closed.
No legal actions were needed in Denmark to transfer the
Foundation to Copenhagen when it was established under the FIG umbrella.
The Foundation activities have already been started and the funds from Australia
have been transferred to the new bank account in Denmark. The administration is
now fully operated from the FIG office. The Foundation has its own bank account
and accounting system but its result is included in the overall accounts of the
Federation. The process to close the FIG Education Foundation in Australia is
still under way.
As the Foundation is part of FIG there will be no special
membership to the Foundation and therefore no membership fees will be charged
for 2001.
Goals, activities and new statutes
The Board of Directors and the Annual Meeting of the
Education Foundation were held in Seoul and this meeting made its recommendation
on the General Assembly for the statutes of the FIG Foundation.
The statutes were prepared in a working group whose members
were Iain Greenway and Stig Enemark, both Directors of the
Education Foundation and the Director of FIG office. The preliminary ideas were
also discussed at the FIG Bureau meeting in Providence in December 2000 and
finalised at the Annual Meeting of the Foundation in Seoul..
The basic ideas include:
- To maintain the goals of the Education Foundation as much as possible
however there shall be a clear split between the responsibilities of the
Foundation and the Federation
- Grants from the Foundation could be given e.g. as scholarships or/and
grants to projects developing curricula for surveying education, capacity
building in developing countries etc.
- Grants should not be used in sponsoring FIG representatives to participate
congresses of member associations (these shall be financed from the FIG
budget), visits of representatives from member associations to participate
FIG meetings, congresses etc (this funding should be arranged either through
aid-programmes or be included in the congress budget)
- To start collect money from FIG events by including a certain sum in the
registration fee (it is already agreed that in Washington this will be US$ 5
per delegate and later US$ 10)
- Voluntary contributions to the Foundation directly and in conjunction with
registering to the events shall be continued.
- To start giving grants as soon as possible e.g. so that in 2001-2002 funds
can be used so that the total assets do not fall below Swiss francs 40,000
and thereafter use 50 per cent of annual income.
- The administration of the Foundation should consist of a Board of
Directors which is nominated by the Council. The chair of the Board of
Directors shall be one of the Vice Presidents (the one responsible for fund
raising and finances) and the majority of the Directors shall
have expertise in education in surveying disciplines and be familiar with
FIG.
Accounts 2000
The income of the FIG Foundation in 2000 include:
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Income Swiss
francs |
| Transfer from Australia AU$ 35,000 |
32,295 |
| Contribution, Working Week 1999 US$2,200 |
3,601 |
| Contribution, FIG/UN Conference Melbourne 1999 US$5,000 |
8,955 |
| Contribution, Working Week 2000 US$ 1,200 |
2,088 |
| Bank interest |
14 |
| Total
income |
46,953 |
The total assets of the Foundation 31st December
2000 were Swiss frs 43,339. Contribution from the working week 1999 from Sun
City arrived in February 2001.
34 people registering for the Working Week in Prague each
contributed US$ 25 and 6 persons US$50 to the Foundation through check-off on
their registrations for a total of US$9501,150.
28 people contributed US$ 25 each and 5 people US$ 50 each to
the FIG Foundation in conjunction to the working week in Seoul in 2001. The
total amount of voluntary contributions through registrations was thus US$ 950.
For the future Congresses and Working Weeks registrants will
be invited to contribute to the Foundation by voluntary mark-off on their
registration forms. At the Washington Congress there will be both option for the
voluntary contribution but in addition in the budget US$ 5 is budgeted for the
Foundation in the directly in the Congress budget.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors that was elected in Prague include: Holger
Magel, Chair, Stig Enemark (Denmark) and Iain Greenway (UK) appointed by FIG
and John Curdie and John Medbury appointed by the Institute of
Surveyors of Australia (ISA).
In Seoul a new Board of Directors was appointed by the FIG
Council. The Directors for period May 2001 - December 2002 are:
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Prof. Holger Magel, Germany, President
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Prof. Stig Enemark, Denmark, Director
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Iain Greenway, United Kingdom, Director
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John Hohol, U.S.A., Director
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Prof. Ian Williamson, Australia, Director.
Prof. Holger
Magel
President of the FIG Foundation
Email: [email protected]
19 May 2001
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