EFG Events

INDEX

Conference: Defining Quality - The Relevance of Field-specific Approaches to Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Bonn, Germany. 2-3 November 2009 The EFG Parallel Session, 3 November 2009: Euro-AGES - Towards European subject benchmarks in geosciences

Natural Resources Reporting Workshop. Dublin, Ireland. 15th May 2009

3rd International Professional Geological Congress (IPGC) 2008

EFG Workshop on the 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC) 2008

GREEN WEEK 2008

International Conference: Geology and Water Management:  Resources, Risks and Regulations. Athens, Greece. May 2008

TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Palanga, Lithuania - Apr 2008

EUSEW 2008

TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Sibiu, Romania - Oct 2007

GREEN WEEK 2007

International Conference: Towards a European common approach for natural hazards. Proposals to policy-makers. Rome, Italy. May 2007

TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Budapest, Hungary - Nov 2006

GREEN WEEK 2006

TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Brussels, Belgium - Oct 2005

GREEN WEEK 2003

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Conference: Defining Quality - The Relevance of Field-specific Approaches to Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Bonn, Germany.

The EFG Parallel Session, Tuesday 3 November:
Euro-AGES - Towards European subject benchmarks in geosciences

3 November 2009

• EFG presentation (Manuel Regueiro, EFG Past President)
• Euro AGES Project presentation (Manuel Regueiro, ICOG, EuroAges Partners Group)
• Geologists formation and Geology market in Germany (Hans Jürgen Weyer BDG Director)
• European market of Geology, Italian Higher Education in Geology and market of applied geology (Marino Trimboli EFG EU Delegate)
• EurGeol Title: Situation and perspectives (Manuel Regueiro, ICOG, EFG Delegate)

Natural Resources Reporting Workshop - Dublin Castle

15 May 2009

• Workshop Programme
• Session 1
• Why Europe Needs a Mineral Resource´s Policy, Patrice Christmann
• Economic Value of Geoscience in Ireland, Deirdre Lewis
• Resource Reporting-The first Step in Sustainable, John Clifford
• Session 2
• PERC Reporting Code 2008, Wynand Kleingeld
• Russian Code, Grigory Malukhin
• Mapping Russian Code to CRIRSCO, Niall Young
• Petroleum and Mineral Resources Classifications, David McDonald
• Session 3
• Views from Major, Patrick Redmond
• Reserve and Resource Statements- View from a Junior, Colin Andrew
• Industrial Minerals Resources Reporting, Dan Germiquet
• Geological Constraints and Modifying Factors- Cement, Ruth Allington
• Market Regulation for Mineral Companies, Job Langbroek
• Session 4
• PERC Code and the EU Extractive Directive, Jonathan Derham
• Policy to Practice, Garth Earls
  
  

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3rd International Professional Geological Congress (IPGC) 2008

20 - 24 September 2008

• Flagstaff Declaration
• Geothermal Energy in Europe, Gareth Ll. Jones and Herald Ligtenberg
• Geology for the Citizens of Europe, Manuel Regueiro
• Geological Mapping in Spain. Cost-benefit analysis, Manuel Regueiro and Roberto Rodriguez (~7Mb)
• A World Federation of Professional Geologists (WFPG): Why the World needs one?, Manuel Regueiro
• Presentation of the Geotrainet Project, Isabel Fernandez, Herald Ligtenberg and Gareth Ll. Jones
• Proceedings (~16Mb)

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EFG Workshop on the 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC) 2008

6 - 14 August 2008

• Agenda
• Geology for the citizens of Europe. EurGeol Mr. Manuel Regueiro, EFG President.
• The importance of professional titles: an update. Mr Dirk de Coster, EFG Vice President.
• EFG advice to European Institutions: EFG Panels of Experts documents. EurGeol Dr. Isabel Fernandez, EFG Office Director. (~9 Mb)
  
• Mineral Resources in Modern World: is there enough geological information for secure supply? Dr. Slavko V. Šolar, Geological Survey of Slovenia, Slovenia and Mrs. Deborah Shields, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, USA
• Role of the early hydrogeology investigations in providing water supply on Ljubljana Field Aquifer. Mrs. Branka Bračič Zeleznik, Public Water Supply Company, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• A World Federation of Professional Geologists: Why the world needs one. EFG Board

Green Week 2008

3 - 6 June 2008

• Conference
• Speakers in front of IYPE stand
  
• With Commissioner for Environment Stravos Dimas 1
  
• With Commissioner for Environment Stravos Dimas 2
  

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TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Palanga, Lithuania - Apr 2008

7 - 9 April 2008

• Agenda
• The Dutch coast and responses to the IPCC scenarios - an overview of sealevel rise and coastal management over the last centuries and government measures planned to counter-act expected changes. Mr. Albert Pieter Oost, Deltares & University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Climate change adaptation in Denmark, past and future coastal zone management. Mr. Per Sørensen, Head of Coastal Research, Danish Coastal Authority, Denmark
• The German coast and responses to the IPCC scenarios - an overview of sea-level rise and coastal management over the last centuries and government measures planned to counter-act expected changes. Mr. Jacobus Hofstede, Deputy Head of Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Coastal setting and problems expected in Estonia. Mr. Valter Petersell, Geological Survey of Estonia, Estonia
• Coastal setting and problems expected in Latvia. Mr. Laimdota Kalnina, University of Latvia , Latvia
• Coastal setting, problems expected in Lithuania. Mr. Albertas Bitinas, Lithuanian Geological Survey, Lithuania
• Coastal setting and problems expected in Poland. Mr. Szymon Uscinowicz, Institute of Oceanography, Poland
• Coastal setting and problems expected in Russia. Mr. Vladimir Zhamoida and Ms. Darya Ryabchuk, All-Russia Geological Research Institute, Department of Regional Geoecology and Marine Ecology, Russia
• Ecological effects of foreshore and beach nourishment in relation to the conservation of coastal habitats (Natura 2000). Mr. Gerard Janssen, Senior Expert, RWS Centre for Water Management / Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Dune development and management, geomorphologic processes and patterns, possible responses to sea level rise and climate change. Mr. Pieter Dirk Jungerius, Professor, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• River development, water management and nature development related to sea-level rise and climate change. Mr. Henk Wolfert, Research Institute Alterra, the Netherlands
• Administration of coastal issues in England, and adaptation to climate change. Mr. Brian Marker, Commission of Geosciences for Environmental Management, the United Kingdom
• Presentation of the Encora Database / Coastal WIKI / DIVA tool Practical Tools for Coastal Management by Mr. Albert Oost, Deltares & University Utrecht
• The techniques of foreshore and beach nourishment, costs and effectiveness. Mr. Albert Oost, Deltares & University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
• The Submerged Palaeoenvironments of the Southern North Sea. Mr. Vince Gaffney, University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom
• ICZM, Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Germany, a best practice from Germany, and the role of EUCC in Germany. Mr. Jacobus Hofstede, Deputy Head of Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• The organization of polder management in the Netherlands future responses planned and collaboration with Baltic States on water management. Mr. Johann de Bondt, Chairman, Water Board, Amsterdam Region, the Netherlands
• Role of EUCC – The Coastal Union for promoting integrated coastal zone management in European Union. Mr. Ramunas Povilanskas, Director, Baltic Office, EUCC – The Coastal Union, Lithuania
• Ground motion observations in the European Lowland Areas based on satellite interferometry methods – TerraFirma and MELA projects. Mr. Marek Graniczny, Professor, Polish Geological Institute, Poland
• Coastal change a chance for creating sustainable economics, geo-, cultural and natural heritage for tourism - examples from the past. The role of the European Federation of Geologists. Ms. Johanna van den Ancker, Coordinator, Expert group on soil protection and geological heritage, EFG / Geoheritage NL, The Netherlands

EUSEW 2008 - European Union Sustainable Energy Week

28 January - 1 February 2008

• EFG Stand: Geology and Sustainable Energy
• Press release Directive
• Position paper. Carbon Capture and geological Storage
  
• Poster: Geothermal Resources in Europe
• Poster: CO₂ Capture and Storage

GREEN WEEK 2007

12 - 15 June 2007

• The role fo Geology in Environmental Change
  
• Stand: "Geology and Enviromental Change"
• Green Week Presentation

Posters:

• The impact of Sea-level changes on the belgian continental shelf: The Quaternary geological evolution - Belgium
• Sustainable use of groundwater, and groundwater pumping in a dynamic environment - Finland
• Mining, mining waste and related environmental issues: problems and solutions in Central and Eastern European candidate countries - Hungary
• Options for compiling an inventory of mining waste sites throughout Europe - Hungary
• Use of remote sensing for mapping and evaluation of mining waste anomalies at national to multi-country scale - Hungary
• South Atlantic island record reveals Holocene climate bipolar seesaw - Sweden
• Reconstruction of ancient climates-clues to the future - Sweden
• The evolution of climatic conditions in Alpine regions - Switzerland

TAIEX & EFG Workshop - Budapest, Hungary - Nov 2006

• Agenda
• Geology and the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: Isabel Fernandez, Director, EFG Office, Brussels, Belgium
• The Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection and the Groundwater Directive: Luca Marmo, DG Environment, European Commission, DG Environment
• Subsidiarity in geological authority systems, and a review of geo-related “acquis communautaire”: Tamás Hámor, Head of Division, Hungarian Geological Survey, Budapest, Hungary
• Promoting sustainable development of the EU non-energy extractive industry: Tom Simpson, European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry
• Applying sustainability to aggregates and industrial minerals: Slavko Solar, Geologist, EFG, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Sustainable use of mineral resources for geologists: John Clifford, Managing DirectorEFG/Consultant, Athlone, Republic of Ireland
• Contamination risk assessment of mining waste: models and approaches: Győző Jordán, Senior Researcher, Geological Institute of Hungary, MAFI, Budapest
• Implementation of Groundwater Directive for Geologists: Patrice Christmann, Secretary-General, EuroGeoSurvey, Brussels, Belgium
• Underground space management, Groundwater: Umberto Puppini, Treasurer, EFG, Milan, Italy
• Development and Sustainable use of water resource: Carlo Enrico Bravi, GSF, Italy
• Soil Protection and Geodiversity: Hanneke van den Ancker, EFG PE Coordinator, the Netherlands
• Creation of a Research Centre in Earth Sciences for a sustainable economy. Belgian Orientation: Yves Vanbrabant, Belgium Geological Survey Research Assistant, Brussels, Belgium
• Global/EU perspectives on mineral resources, especially fossils, and public awareness on geosciences: István Bérczi ,EFG/MOL
• Geothermal resources for electricity, heating and cooling: bottlenecks, best geological practises and recommendations: Antics Miklos, DAFORA France / GPC IP, Roissy, France
• Unconventional geothermal reservoirs in Europe for producing electricity: challenges and perspectives of the ENGINE project: Albert Genter, Head of Unit, Geo-Energy, BRGM, Orleans, France

GREEN WEEK 2006

30 May - 2 June 2006

• Caves and Bats - Slovakia
• Active drift sands - Netherlands
• Karst sinkholes and waterplants - Lithuania
• Maars transforming to moors - Germany
• Malvern Hills - United Kingdom
• Vegetation patterns in the Oppdal - Norway
• The Ar du Tsan marsh - Switzerland
• Tufa dams in the Teme Valley - United Kingdom

GREEN WEEK 2003

• The EFG stand in the Green Week

Posters:

• Member Countries

• Mission and Objective

• Why Society needs Geologists

• Geology and Water [1]

• Geology and Water [2]

• Geology and Natural Hazards [1]

• Geology and Natural Hazards [2]

• Geology and Climate Change [1]

• Geology and Climate Change [2]

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