1. GEOSTAT 2 – EFGS Conferences
Vienna
Paris
Building Bridges
Suitable, Reliable, Sustainable

2. Organisational setup EFGS 2015 EFGS 2016 Statistics Austria INSEE BEV
Organised by
National Statistical Institute
Statistics Austria
INSEE
National Mapping Agency
BEV
IGN
Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs.
GEOSTAT 2- project team, EFGS, EUROSTAT

3. The main topics were Integration of Geography and Statistics
Cooperation between NMAs and NSIs
INSPIRE, UN-GGIM, UN-SDG
Best Practice: National and Global Use Cases
Spatial Analysis
Earth observation and Big Data
Panel Discussion (“building bridges – the way forward”)

4. Abstracts and presentations
Conference material uploaded to the EFGS website: Including a summary report of EFGS2015 Photo galleries: EFGS2015 and EFGS2016

5. Attendees Number of attendees exceeded expectations!
In both cases over 100 attendees
Mainly Europe, but from all continents!
From statistical community and mapping agencies , various ministries, European stakeholders, research & universities and commercial customers.

6. News & Lessons learned
Lars Backer award 2016 went to Marja Tammilehto-Luode for major contributions to the development of a geospatial foundation for official statistics
Organisational To-do-list  is continuously updated and passed on to future hosts
Further thoughts:
What about a scientific committee
Parallel sessions
Good Luck to future hosts!
Ingrid Kaminger
Vincent Loonis
STAT – EFGS2015
INSEE – EFGS2016