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This selection lists events and conferences organised, sponsored or co-sponsored by FIG, its commissions and its member associations.
Since 1878 FIG has organised events for surveyors with representation from all over the world. The first FIG congress took place in Paris, France, when FIG was founded. The second in 1910 in Brussels, Belgium and the third again in Paris, France in 1926. Since then there has been a meeting/conference each year only interrupted by the second World War and in 2020 the Working Week that should have been held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands had to be cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic and was substituted by 26 articles. In 2021 the first ever virtual event, the FIG e-Working Week, took place in cooperation with the Dutch local organisers.
FIG organises international congresses, held every four years, and annual
working weeks, held in the intervening years. Congresses and Working Weeks
are hosted by FIG together with its local member association. The last
congresses were held in Brighton (UK) in 1998, in Washington, DC (USA) in
2002, in Munich, Germany in 2006, in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010, in Malaysia in June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 6-11 May 2018
and Warsaw, Poland in September 2022.
The next Congress will be held in
Cape Town, South Africa, 24-29
May 2026.
Congresses attract several thousand participants from all over the world and are the most important events in the FIG calendar. The technical programme, which marks the culmination of the 10 commissions’ four-year programme of work, is complemented by a major international exhibition.
Working Weeks combine meetings of FIG’s administrative bodies with technical seminars organised by the commissions and the host member associations and as such provide the opportunity for commissions to develop their work programmes and for FIG to network at a more regional level.
In the later years the Working Weeks have taken place in
In addition to their involvement with FIG congresses and working weeks, commissions and their working groups organise or co-sponsor a wide range of seminars and workshops, usually in collaboration with member associations or other international professional bodies. See events on the 10 Commissions websites:
