Italian Exhibition Group measures up 2025 International Geodesy Conference

The Italian Exhibition Group has clinched the bid to host the next edition of the quadrennial International Conference of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). The scientific event will host around 500 participants and is set to be held for the first time in Italy, 1-5 September 2025, at the Palacongressi in Rimini. The latest edition took place this year in Beijing, with previous editions held in Japan, Germany, and Argentina. The 2025 bid was presented by the University of Bologna, with particular input from the Department of Physics and Astronomy together with that of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM). Professors Susanna Zerbini and Stefano Gandolfi at the University of Bologna said: “The Palacongressi di Rimini submitted locations and technologies at the highest level, necessary elements for staging this type of international event.” They added: “Everything that the city of Rimini can offer to participants in terms of hospitality, nature and history is of the highest quality. This was definitely a decisive element in the context of the proposal.” Some of the scientific topics to be addressed during the conference are the impact of geodesy to climate change, as well as the anthropic factors affecting the planet. Melting of glaciers, subsidence phenomena, meteorological forecasts through GPS are just some of the issues that will be addressed.