1. European Forum for GeoStatistics
For GeoStatisticians
Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President European Forum for GeoStatistics
MSc. landscape ecology and natural resources
Statistics Norway
Otervegen 23
N Kongsvinger
Tel : ++47 /
Fax : ++47 /
EuroStat Working Party on GIS for Statistics
Luxembourg 8th – 9th of March 2010
The Geostat project

2. Background and objectives
EFGS started in 1998 as a Nordic network for cooperation on geostatistics with a foci on developing a common population map
EFGS holds annual conferences, and the first European conference was held in 2008
Aims to harmonise methods and data sets on a European level, by exchanging knowledge and experience

3. Organisation General Assembly Steering Committee and President
Executive Director and office *
Budget *
Membership
Expert groups *

4. General Assembly
The first Ordinary General Assembly is to be held in 2012
Election of members of Steering Committee
Election of President

5. Steering Committee
1 President - NSI Norway, Mr. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
8 Steering committee members - NSI Austria, Mrs. Ingrid Kaminger - NSI Estonia, Mrs. Diana Makareno-Piirsalu - NSI Finland, Mrs. Marja Tamilehto-Luode - NSI France, Mr. Jean-Luc Lipatz - NSI Netherlands, Mr. Niek van Leeuwen - NSI Poland, Mr. Radoslaw Jablonski - NSI Portugal, Mrs. Ana Maria Santos - NSI Slovenia, Mr. Igor Kuzma

6. Executive Director/Office
1 Executive Director - Mr. Lars Henrik Backer
Tasks - Annual report to Steering Committee and General Assembly on EFGS activities and finances - Administrator of EFGS website - Central contact point together with the President

7. Membership Organisational membership Active membership
Associated membership
Personal membership

8. Expert groups/GEOSTAT task forces
EFGS EG 01
Geostatistics and metadata standards
Niek van Leuwen
EFGS EG 05
Land use statistics
and GIS               
Mr/s X ?
EFGS EG 09
Geostatistics
and user needs              
Ingrid Kaminger
EFGS EG 02
Geostatistics
and websolutions
Mr/s X ?
EFGS EG 06
Geostatistics and dissaggregation models  
Jean-Luc Lipatz
EFGS EG 10
Geostatistics and presentations           
Rina Tammisto
EFGS EG 03
Population census
and GIS
Mr/s X
EFGS EG 07
Geostatistics and scientific community
Dave Martin
EFGS EG 11
Geostatistics and database management     
Eileen Oplendskedal Hokaasen ?
EFGS EG 04
Agricultural census
and GIS 
Mr/s X
EFGS EG 08
Geostatistics
and business models
Marja Tammiletho-Luode
EFGS EG 12
Geostatistics and
confidentiality
Vilni Verner Holst Bloch ?