Annual Meeting and Webinar on 5th of February 2026

How the use of Geosynthetics has evolved in Nordic countries? Arnstein Watn has been involved already several decades in Geosynthetics and he has collected the history into the Keynote lecture presented in EuroGeo8 conference in Lille 2025. This lecture Geosynthetics in the Northern countries: geotechnical and environmental challenges   will be represented in the IGS Nordic webinar in March 2026.

In addition to the keynote lecture, the webinar consists of two other presentations:

Arnstein Watn: New NorGeoSpec classification for filter geotextiles in drainage (new version of NorGeoSpec Guidelines is available on the website https://www.norgeospec.org/)

Saara Perikangas: Quantities of applied geosynthetics in Finland – results of questionnaire

Join the webinar on 5th of February starting at 13 am CET!

Webinar is free and open for all! Register through this LINK.

The Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic is organised straight after the webinar, about 15 am ECT.

Invitation to the Educate the Educators event in Lund, Sweden

IGS Nordic is organizing the Educate the Educators event in Lund on 7th of May. The event is free and specially targeted to the lecturers in Nordic universities, but is open for everyone interested. Link to join before 29th of April.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to geosynthetic products, their manufacturing, and properties
  • Supporting steep slopes and retaining walls with geosynthetics
  • Geosynthetics in landfill structures
  • Geotextiles for filtration, separation, and drainage

The second part of the training will be held in the fall, focusing on other applications.

Note! On the previous day, May 6th, the NorGeoSpec seminar will be held in Lund, and its program is available here.

Read more about Educate the Educators -program here.

Invitation to the IGS Nordic EtE 5_2025Download

Annual Meeting and Webinar on 6th of March 2025

How to choose the proper Geosynthetic product into exceptional environmental conditions, such as high or low pH? Or how you can increase the Circular Economy and decrease the cost by use of local, low quality soils?

Join the webinar on 6th of March starting at 9 am CET and learn about possibilities.

The webinar consists of two presentations:

  • Catrin Tarnowski, Solmax: Environmental Conditions to be Considered in Design and Choice of Geosynthetics
  • Viktor Poberezhnyi, Huesker: Landslide Embankment with Geosynthetics on Project E10 Hålogalandsvegen, by using in-situ infill (Moraine)

Webinar is free and open for all! Register through this LINK.

The Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic is organised straight after the webinar, about 10 am ECT.

IGS Students Awards to EuroGEO8

IGS Student Award Program has been establised to support the participation of young professionals in IGS conferences. Aim is to disseminate knowledge and to improve
communication and understanding of geotextiles, geomembranes, and associated technologies among young geotechnical and geoenvironmental student engineers around the world. Program has been succesfull, and now is already 9th award period of 2022-2025.

The Award will be assigned for Europe in the year 2024 and all successful candidates will be invited to attend EuroGeo8 in Lille, France, 15-18 September 2025. Each chapter in the European Region of the IGS is invited to nominate one student of their chapter that has submitted a paper to the conference for the award.

The IGS student award will consist of up to USD 1,000 to be used to cover travel expenses of each winner to attend the EuroGeo8 conference. Each Award Winner will also receive complimentary registration to the conference and the gala dinner. Award Winners will present their work during the regular technical sessions and will be recognised for their achievements during the closing ceremony of the conference.

To qualify for the award the student needs to be

  1. nominated by their chapter;
  2. have been an undergraduate, M.Sc. or Ph.D. student during the period 2022-2025; and
  3. present a full paper at the conference.

Also IGS Nordic is nomininating a student. To apply, prepare and abstract and contact the chair of board Minna Leppänen before the end of October 2024.

Call for abstracts: EuroGEO8

Next European Geosynthetic Conference will be organized in Lille, France, from 15th to 18th September 2025.

The main theme of the Conference is “Technical Challenges and Environmental Imperatives for the 21st Century”. The new challenges facing construction professionals, environmental concerns, innovation and risk management will be at the heart of the discussions and presentations.

Call for Abstracts is open, and deadline for submission of abstracts is August 22th 2024.

Call for Abstracts
https://eurogeo8.org/call-for-abstracts

Annual Meeting and webinar on 9th of April 2024

How the Geosynthetics can increase sustainability?

Join the webinar on 9th of April starting at 13 CET and learn about alternative, less carbon intensive structures in walls, bridge abutments, load transfer platforms, etc. The final program will be added soon.

Webinar is open for all! Register through this LINK.

The Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic is organised straight after the webinar.

Save the date: Invitation to the Winter Webinar and Annual General Meeting

IGS Nordic Chapter is organizing a Winter Webinar on 19.1.2023 focusing on Microplastics and Sustainability. John Kraus and Nathalie Touze will give 30 min presentations based on their lectures on Italia Bologna October 2022.

The Annual General Meeting will be organized after the webinar. The agenda of the General Meeting consist of topics based on Bylaws.

Both the webinar and the Annual Meeting will be organized in Zoom. Please, register: bit.ly/3PHsj4P

Presentations:

Nathalie Touze: Role of geosynthetics in sustainable development and the circular economy 2023_01_19Download
John Kraus: Microplastics and geosynthetics 20230119Download

Invitation to the Webinar on Sustainability of Geosynthetics

IGS Nordic Chapter is proud to invite all interested to the First Geosynthetic Webinar!

Webinar is organised on Thursday 10th of March 2022 in connection with the First Annual Meeting of the IGS Nordic Chapter. The webinar starts at 13 pm CET.

The keynote lecture on Sustainability of Geosyntetics will be presented by Henning Ehrenberg from NAUE.

Preliminary program:

Webinar is free of charge and open for all interested. It’s organised virtually in Zoom. Pre-register here to get the access link! Sign up for the webinar and the annual meeting

Invitation to the First Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic Chapter

The first annual meeting will be on 10th of March 2022 after the webinar at 16:15 CET. The meeting is open for all interested. Meeting in organized virtually in Zoom.

Meeting agenda

  1. Opening the meeting
  2. Listing the Attendances
  3. Choosing the chairperson, secretary, scrutinizers of minutes (2) and tellers (2) of the meeting
  4. Confirming the lawfulness and validity of the meeting
  5. Approving of the agenda
  6. Minutes of the constitutive meeting of IGS Nordic Chapter
  7. Approving the strategy, budget and the subscription of the year 2022
  8. Annual general meeting in 2023
  9. Other business
  10. Closing the meeting

Pre-registrate here to get the access link! Sign up for the annual meeting and the webinar

IGS Nordic Chapter has been establised!

Joint Chapter of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland was established on 26th of October 2021. The aim is to increase the activites and peoples involved by joining the forces.

The Finnish and Norwegian Chapters have been operating already more than decade, but in Sweden, Iceland and Denmark there hasn’t been a IGS Chapter yet. However, the number of the active members and resourses of the Norwgian and Finnish Chapters has been rather limited and the idea about co-operation and a joint Nordic Chapter has been discussed.

The aim of this new Chapter is to promote and spread technical reasonable and sustainable use of geosynthetics and foster the knowledge of geosynthetics
Focus on Nordic conditions and practices, specially focucing on Nordic conditions, typical aggregates and soils, and construction practices.

The first annual meeting will be on 10th of March, together with a webinar.