CLGE

15/10/2026

This week, I travelled to Sicily, first to attend the CNG (Italian Consiglio Nazionale Geometri e Geometri Lauerati) Presidents’ meeting in Catania. Then I took part in the FIG Commission 9 conference in Ragusa on the topic ‘The new era of real estate modelling: From AI to Intelligence – Towards Resilient and Transparent Property Systems'.
This was an opportunity for me to promote CLGE and talk about our latest news, to exchange views with my European colleagues and to promote collaboration with the FIG - International Federation of Surveyors, our members and other associations representing the profession, such as EGOS - European Group of Surveyors, with whom we have agreed to work on joint projects in the near future.
I kindly thank the hosts, especialy Maria Grazia Scorza, Enrico Rispoli, Daniele Brancato, Cromwell Manaloto, Peter Ache and Diane Dumashie for the quality of the organisation and very interesting topics and discusions during those days.
Nicolas Smith, CLGE President

04/10/2026

During 2 days, CLGE had its 2nd general assembly 2026 co-organised by our Czech and Slovack colleagues. The Board elected 2 years ago presented the wrap up of 2 years news about projects, actions and supports to our members. At the end, a new board was elected.
From left to right :
Peter Repáñ (Slovakia), VP
Jean-Yves Pirlot (Belgium), Director general
Hamidreza Ostadabbas (Germany), young surveyors representative
Marinelly Dancheva (Bulgaria), young surbeyors representative
Julian Ismaili (Albania), Treasurer
Nicolas Smith (France), President
Frederic Mortier (Belgium), VP
Duncan Moss (UK), Secretary General
Thomas Jacubeit (Germany), Chair of IG-Parls
Ali Ipek (Türkiye), VP
Nele Vanhoutte (Belgium), Vice Chair of IG-Parls
Eric Hagemans (The Netherlands), VP
Cora Stöger (Austria), VP

01/10/2026

This morning marks the start of the 2026 Geomatics Conference, co-organised by our colleagues from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Today, we will be discussing the utility cadastre, the future of Mapping and the challenges facing professional organisations.
The conference is being streamed live and we’ll try to share a link so you can watch it later.

05/06/2026

The CLGE congratulates Kalogiannakis Michalis, our former Secretary General, on his election as President of the FIG. We extend our best wishes to the newly elected team, as well as to Diane Dumashie’s team as their term comes to an end in September 2026.

CLGE warmly congratulates Michalis Kalogiannakis on his election as the next President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). His appointment marks an important moment for the Federation and the wider surveying community. This year’s election brought forward two highly committed candi...

10/05/2026

On 8 and 9 May, we held our first General Assembly of 2026 in Tartu, Estonia.
We had excellent discussions with our Estonian hosts, who explained to us how the profession is organised in Estonia.
We reviewed our activities since our previous General Assembly in Dublin.
We organised workshops on:
- the CLGE’s theme for the year: AI
- the future of property monumentation, which resulted in the Tartu Declaration
- our EGS-act project, finalising the questionnaire that will be sent out shortly.
During this meeting, we unanimously decided to elect two new honorary members: Matjaž Grilc and Vladimir Krupa, who have contributed greatly to the CLGE through their work as delegates, President of IG-PARLS and-or President of the CLGE. Through their work and loyalty, they have successfully carried out major projects for our association and helped to preserve the friendly atmosphere that characterises our organisation.
We paid particular attention to the upcoming elections for the FIG President and Vice-President: all European candidates were invited to this General Assembly, all attended, and we thank them warmly. They were able to present their respective programmes and discuss matters with our members: Michalis Kalogiannakis (GR), Mikael Lijle (SE), Peter Ache (DE) and Angel Collado (SP).
We also had time to visit , its university and the observatory used by , the 2012 European Surveyor of the Year, who carried out the measurements for the Struve Arc between Norway and the Black Sea between 1816 and 1855 (2,820 kilometres!).