1. Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies (in Austria)? Reinfried MANSBERGER Gert STEINKELLNER

2. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Content of the Presentation Introduction State of the Art Reasons for Decreased Interest of Surveying Studies Strategy to Improve Interest for Surveying Studies Summary & Conclusions

3. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Introduction “Official Warning: Don’t study Surveying” Background information:  increasing number of students  limitation of available jobs  dismal situation of employment in the field of surveying Alfred Gromann (President of Austrian Federal Office of Surveying) Letter addressed to rectors at Universities of Technology in Vienna and Graz published in the Journal of the Austrian Association for Surveying, 1932 (!)

4. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Messages  “Job possibilities of graduates in surveying are nowadays good to excellent” (Geofuture, 2007)  “Graduates of surveying are objects of desire” (Geoinfo, 2007)  “Specialist with international highly recognised academic qualification” (Geoinfo, 2007)  “Nearly all students of surveying will find a well-paid job after having finished their studies” (Geoinfo, 2007)

5. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) State of the Art in Austria Professional Fields Fields not integrated in surveying education:  urban and rural planning,  land valuation, and  real estate management Consequence:  professional activities in these fields are normally not part of the portfolio of an Austrian surveyor

6. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) State of the Art in Austria Number of Incoming Students Incoming students in Surveying at the University of Technology in Vienna and at the University of Technology in Graz (since 2004)

7. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) State of the Art in Austria Wrong Motivation of Students „ … to do field working by land surveying and to have close contact to people” But the reality is:  Management duties  ITC-activities  Consulting tasks  Planning activities  ……..

8. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) State of the Art in Austria Wrong Public View of a Surveyor in Austria Pure technician with an excellent knowledge in mathematics and geometry Person needed for the procedure of buying or selling land Archivist of parcels and boundary lines Mathematician and sometimes pedantic person with a specific liking of high-accurate surveying instruments Person providing geometrical information for civil engineers, spatial planners and other engineering professionals and Male person

9. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) State of the Art in Austria Pros & Cons for Employment of Surveyors GPS-technology WebGIS applications Risk management Global change ….  Modern surveying instruments and computers  Simplification and Automation of surveying processes  Outsourcing (Central Europe to low-wage countries) ……

10. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Reality of Surveying Activities The professional and educational profile of surveyors is a combination of the areas of measurement science and land administration, supported by and embedded in a broad multidisciplinary paradigm of spatial information management. (Stig ENEMARK, 2000)

11. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Reasons for Decreased Interest Inadequate Education & Wrong Marketing Restrictions in the maximum of lecture hours (due to Bologna Process) ? Name of study courses (Geomatics, Geoinformatics, …) ? Image of Technical Universities ?  focus to much on technical and natural sciences ?  missing information of new contents (social and human sciences) ?  disincentive to many potential students - especially to female students!

12. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategy to Enhance Interest Raising Questions How to attract surveying courses for young people and how to improve the role of surveyors in society? Who are the potential players to promote our profession and the appropriate education? Should promotion of profession be done on a local, national or global level? Which measures have to be done or have to be enhanced to bring students to the lecture halls of surveying institutes?

13. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategies to Enhance Interest Promotion of Role of Surveyors Stabiliser of public order and the work of surveyors as a precondition of a flourishing economy Guardian of rights of property and user as well as Guardian for a safe system of records in land administration systems Producer, Administrator and Distributor of local, national and global spatial data infrastructure Manager of land, water and other natural resources Enabler, Mediator and Advisor for urban and rural planning and development, including conflict resolution Hinge (Interfaces) in global, national and local early warning systems for disaster prevention and risk management Active partner in the development and use of e.g. global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and high resolution imaging systems (Holger MAGEL, 2006)

14. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategies to Enhance Interest Extension of Professional Activities Strengthen the cooperation with related professional bodies on national and international level Take leadership in all described professional activities Enter strategic partnerships with local, national and international authorities and to increase their self-confidence in the cooperation with politicians and other professions Think about new fields of profession and new value-added products and to enter new alliances with other professions

15. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategies to Enhance Interest Promotion & Marketing (1) To make the profession more attractive and to motivate young people to study surveying, the surveyors and the surveying associations have to organize concerted actions on national and international level for making the real occasional area of surveying profession popular to communicate the important contributions of the surveying profession for the society, the economy, and the environment to the public to intensify the participation in the public discussion to all land-related issues to communicate the broad field of profession and the manifold activities of surveyors to young people (potential students)

16. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategies to Enhance Interest Promotion & Marketing (2) To make the profession more attractive and to motivate young people to study surveying, the surveyors and the surveying associations have to inform incoming students about all different branches in surveying studies (measuring sciences, land management) to promote the surveying profession in the primary and secondary education to support colleagues in countries or region with lacking or missing surveying education in their efforts to improve the situation and to encourage women and other underrepresented groups in the surveying profession to enrol study courses in surveying

17. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Skills in Fields of Sciences Needed for Specific Branches in Surveying

18. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Strategies to Enhance Interest Adaptation and Modernisation of Curricula The surveyors and the surveying associations have: to adapt furthermore curricula to the new challenges of profession to provide up-to-date teaching and learning technologies to the students to intensify the mutual cooperation between all institutions involved in surveying education on a national and international level to create new inter-university study courses on national and international level to provide CPD (continuous-professional-development)/ LLL (life-long- learning) to all academics in the profession

19. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Summary & Conclusions (1) Stakeholders have to  develop sustainable strategies to enhance the interest  improve the marketing for the profession itself  improve the marketing for products and services  accord and supervise the promotion on international level Central Europe: necessary to extend activity fields  planning issues  real estate management

20. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Summary & Conclusions (2) Surveyors have to  increase self-confidence in the public discussion of all land- and environmental-related topics  comment all political or legal decisions in the context of land  point out their valuable contributions to meet the challenges of global mega-topics (e.g. global change, achievement of millenniums goals)

21. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) e n d (Thank You)

22. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) Ass.Prof. Dr. Reinfried MANSBERGER Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information (IVFL) University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU Wien) A-1190 Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, Austria Email: mansberger@boku.ac.at Dipl.-Ing. Gert STEINKELLNER Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV) A-1025 Vienna, Schiffamtsgasse 1-3, Austria Email: gert.steinkellner@bev.gv.at Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG) www.ovg.at

23. Scientia Est Potentia – Knowledge is Power How to Enhance the Interest for Surveying Studies Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2007 Reinfried MANSBERGER & Gert STEINKELLNER Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG)