FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education
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Prof. Bela Markus, Chair of FIG Commission 2
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Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: 5 July ,1947
Nationality: Hungarian
Status: Married
Current Position: Head
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Professional Experience
Prof. Bela Markus is a land surveyor, M.Sc., Ph.D.,
Professor of Geoinformatics, and Dean of the Faculty of
Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary. He has 35 years
teaching experience in surveying, 20 years in teaching GIS and 15
years in development and organization of open, distance learning
professional courses for land administration.
Prof Markus has over hundred publications on various aspects of
using computers in surveying, spatial information sciences and
educational developments. He is actively involved in many national
and international academic programmes, chairman of the National
Committee of Association of Hungarian Surveyors and Cartographers,
chairman of the Hungarian UNIGIS Course Board, chairman of the
Agricultural Experts Committee Surveying Session at the Ministry
of Agriculture.
He was the Hungarian national represenative of FIG Commission 3
(1998-2002), chair of the Working Group 2.4 Knowledge Transfer in
Spatial Information Management (2002-2006) and currently member
the Board of Directors of FIG Foundation. He is also member of the
Executive Committee of EUROPACE (Leuven, Belgium).
Prof Markus was a Council member of Association of GI
Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) in 2002-2006. He was advising
Central European land Knowledge Center (Budapest, Hungary) as an
International Expert on Knowledge Transfer in 2003-2004.
Relevant publications
- M?kus, B.: NCGIA Core Curriculum - Hungarian adaptation,
EGIS'93, Genoa, 1993.
- M?kus, B.: GIS education program and courseware development
at College of Surveying and Land Management, JEC '95, The Hague,
1995.
- M?kus, B.: Educating professionals in Land Offices,
Proceedings of the Second Joint European Conference and
Exhibition, JEC `96, Barcelona, 1996.
- M?kus, B.: Lifelong learning - Developments for Land
Offices, Proceedings of Computer Assisted Learning and Achieving
Quality in the Education of Surveyors, Espoo, Finland, 1996, FIG
Commission 2.
- M?kus, B.: GIS OPEN - OPEN GIS EDUCATION IN GIS,
Proceedings of Third Joint European Conference and Exhibition,
JEC `97, Vienna, 1997.
- M?kus B.: Open education to improve land information
services, 3rd EC - GIS workshop, Leuven, 1997.
- M?kus B.: Recent developments in GIS education and research,
GISDATA seminar, Strassbourg, 1997.
- M?kus B. - Niklasz L.: Cadastre - Basic component of the
Hungarian Spatial Data Infrastructure, International seminar on
GIS, FIG Commission 3, Thessaloniki, 1997.
- M?kus, B.: Co-operation in Professional Development for
Land Administration, 4th EC - GIS workshop, Budapest, 1998.
- M?kus B.: Building a knowledge pool for courses in land
information management, First European GIS Education Seminar,
Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 1998.
- M?kus B.: Building Web based Land Information Services in
Hungary, AGILE ?99 Conference on Geographic Information Science
- User-friendly geographic information, Rome, Italy, 1999.
- M?kus B.: Virtual Academy developments in Hungary, FIG
Working Week, Sun City, South Africa, 1999.
- M?kus B. (ed.): Proceedings of FIG Commission 3 Annual
meeting and seminar, Budapest, 1999.
- M?kus B.: GIS Education and Hungarian Spatial Data
Infrastructure, 1st International Seminar on Cadastral System,
Land Administration and Sustainable Development, 2000, Bogota,
Colombia.
- M?kus B.: Educational metadata, FIG Working Week, Prague,
2000.
- M?kus B.(ed.): Proceedings of the Second European GIS
Education Seminar, EUGISES 2000, Budapest, 2000.
- M?kus B.: Networked education in land administration, FIG
Working Week, Seoul, 2001.
- M?kus B.(ed.): Space and Time, Conference proceedings,
Sopron, 2001.
- M?kus B.: Spatial knowledge management in land
administration, FIG Conference, Washington DC., 2002.
- M?kus B.: (Global) spatial knowledge management, GSDI6
conference, Budapest, 2002.
- M?kus B.: Strategy for professional development and
academic responses - a Hungarian case study, ?Land Registration
and Spatial Planning in Transition Countries: Opportunities for
the European Union?? workshop, Wageningen, 2002.
- M?kus B.: Educational portal development, FIG Working Week,
Paris, 2003.
- M?kus B.: Concept, design, development and exploitation of
a GIS project, ECO-GEOWATER Euro Lab Course, ?GIS and Water
Domain?, Genova (I), 2004.
- M?kus B.: Curricula development in Bologna Process, FIG
Working Week, Athens, 2004.
- M?kus B.: GI support for land consolidation, FIG Regional
Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2004.
- M?kus B.: Learning pyramids, FIG Working Week, Cairo, 2005.
- Markus B.: Spatial knowledge infrastructure, Managing &
Investing Knowledge to Support the Process of Decision-Making,
Dubai, 2005.
- Markus B.: Building spatial knowledge infrastructure, ISPRS
Workshop on Services and Applications of Spatial Data
Infrastructure, Hangzhou, China, 2005.
- Markus B. - Suarez, J. (ed.): Shaping the future of
Geographic Information Science in Europe, 9th AGILE Conference
on Geographic Information Science, Visegr?, Hungary, 2006.
- Markus B. (ed.): e-Governance, Knowledge Management and
e-Learning, International FIG Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
- Markus B.: Experiences in and around e-Learning, FIG
Congress, Munich, Germany, 2006.
Contacts
Prof. Bela Markus, Head
Land and GeoInformation Knowledge Center
Faculty of Geoinformatics
University of West Hungary
Pirosalma u. 1-3
P.O. Box 52
H-8000 Szekesfehervar
HUNGARY
Tel. +36-22-516-552
Fax +36-22-516-521
Email: mb@geo.info.hu
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