 You already know the title, so we're going to tell you something today about the expectations and motivations of the Geodesy students in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. But first, a quick introduction. Who are we? We are the conference of the Geodesy students from the German-speaking countries. We represent 22 universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We are having a meeting together every semester where we have field trips, lectures, working groups, a general assembly and of course a lot of space for networking. To our personalities, my name is Valentin Fahra, I am the chairman of the Congeals. We also have our wonderful PR manager with us, Joshua, and the DVW, the Association Represident Representative, Adrienne. So a little bit of background, let's have a look on the development of the German labor market in general. And as you can see in the numbers of the German statistical authorities, the workforce in Germany is projected to decline by 9.2% until 2030. I think that's quite a lot of people. And also the activity rate, so the participation in the labor market is also projected to decline by 4%. So even less employees. And the medium age of the average worker is also projected to decline. And that is due to the fact that many of the baby boomer generation people are retiring. So the average worker is actually getting younger while there are being less workers in general. If we look at the file of Geodesy, we have very rare data, but there was a survey conducted already in 2011 in Northwine, Westphalia, where companies got asked how many employees will you lose in the next year, how many employees will you need in the next year, and how many people will graduate from the universities. And as you can see for bachelor and master graduates, there are just not enough people graduating, so we will have less workers. If you look at the numbers for the apprenticeship, you will see that enough people or more than enough people are actually graduating, but this is kind of misleading because many of these people with an apprenticeship will continue to get a master's or a bachelor's degree. Okay, so let's continue with the Geodesy studies at German speaking universities. So in total there's 24 universities, 24 public universities, you might add, that offer a degree typically called Geodesy and Geoinformatics. What's kind of special for Germany is that there are two types of universities. There are not general universities of applied sciences and technical universities, which offer different degrees and study lengths. So universities of applied sciences at most times offer a bachelor or master of engineering with seven or three to four semester study length, whereas technical universities offer a bachelor or master of science after six and four semesters. Universities of applied sciences have a larger focus on practical training and practical exercises. Tactical universities have a greater focus on the theoretical aspects and further specialization, for example in fields such as physical Geodesy, hydrography, geodetic earth observation or industrial metrology. Then let's continue with the research mythology. The first part will be the first semester student numbers, which we acquired by the German Federal Statistical Office, the Statistisches Bundesamt in German. From these the values for a ten year period were selected for bachelor's and master's combined. For the Austrian and Swiss universities we had to obtain the numbers directly from the universities, with the exception that the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland in Mutens only started publishing the numbers for the 2019-2020 winter semester. The second part is our annual Conger survey, which is conducted every semester among the first semester students at our member universities, so 22 out of 24 universities. It's organized by our association by the Congers and carried out by the Congers members, so the universities themselves. The Conger survey is consisting of seven questions regarding the motivations to start Geodesy and as well as the future job plans for the students. And we'll begin with the results. The first semester student numbers reached the highest levels between 2014 and 2016 and have been declining since then. So in the winter semester 2021-2022 roughly 2,000 students started studying Geodesy, 41% at universities or technical universities and 59% at universities of Applied Sciences. In Austria there's only two universities, so no universities of Applied Sciences. They've reached their highest numbers from 2012 to 2014 and have been stagnating since then with roughly 80 new students every year. In Switzerland the numbers at ETH Zurich have been growing since 2015 quite significantly and roughly 70% of the Swiss first semester students start at ETH Zurich, where we are about 30% start at the university in Mutens. So in Germany the numbers have been declining since 2016 and most students start at universities of Applied Sciences. In Austria the numbers have been stagnating since 2014 and in Switzerland the numbers have been growing since 2015. So pretty different results for the different German speaking countries. Yes, as you mentioned we carry out the annual Congere survey and these are the numbers from last year, last winter semester and we brought some nice and good charts from the Congere survey and maybe they are also interesting for you maybe as a company because they are related to the working part of the studies besides their studies and as we can see many of the studies students have already a contract with the company, we divided by dual students or working students but as you see they just start the study and they already have a contract and that's in the universities not normal but for the companies it's really interesting because they can recruit really early some new employers and students and for the students it's also a really good benefit because they can get some money for living and as well for getting some working experience. And next we have a chart where we can see how the new student learn about the field of Geodesy or get know the study of Geodesy and as we can see and we all maybe know how we enter the Geodesy, many of us came into the Geodesy because we have some friends or family background in this kind of field and but we can also see what else is really happening in the public, the classical websites and as we and Malin Rybka also mentioned we have to continue to do online advertisement and social media and this is the future and only this way we can attract new and a lot of students for the future. Here we can see that in this chart that also many of the students work in the field of Geodesy or did an apprenticeship before they start their studies so this is kind of misleading the numbers because not every new student is new in this kind of field in the Geodesy and one more chart is mentioned what the study in which field they feel comfortable and what they want to do after their studies and as we can see the classical surveying is at highest but also it's interesting that there will be GIST, Geoinformatics and Navigation and GPS is also really popular for the student and there are some other stuff which is not that high but we all also carry out a survey for graduating student and there we can see that these these charts are changing over the time after four years they're graduating it's kind of also photogrammetry and reward sensing get a little bit higher but this is another part maybe for next presentation. So to conclude like in many many files also in Geodesy there are difficulties in finding qualified and skilled workers this is mainly due to declining birth rates in Germany there are too few students at universities and universities of applied sciences but the numbers in Austria and Switzerland look quite sustainable to be honest we can also conclude that or we see in the survey that many students have completed a apprenticeship before they start studying Geodesy and most students want to work in the classical surveying file so to conclude in general the profession needs to be brought further into the public eye especially with campaigns like Weltvermesserer so that is also a reason why we as conchiers also proudly support Weltvermesserer of course but you your company or whoever should do so too so if you want to know more about us you could follow our instagram conchiers dach if you want to we also have a booth over there in hall 3.2 it's t3.08 you're very welcome there you can come talk with us whatever you want to if you want to access the crafts from the or the figures from our presentation just type in the title of the paper online you will find it on research gate it was also published in the set of we the magazine of dvw feel free to approach us and in addition to this first semester survey we are now also conducting an alumni survey thank you very much for your attention