EFS Executive Committee
Date: Wednesday25May 2016
Valamar Lacroma hotel, Dubrovnik
Time: - 15:00 – 18:00
Present / Chiara Simonelli (CS), Moshe Mock (MM), Mehmet Sungur (MS), Francesca Tripodi (FT), Filippo Maria Nimbi (FN), Elsa Almas (EA), Goran Arbanas (GA), Beatrice Cuzin (BC), Trudy Griffioen (TG), Sandra Vilarinho (SV)
Apologies / Miren Larrazabal (ML), Kevan Wylie (KW), Antonio Palha (AP)
Minutes / Filippo Maria Nimbi (FN)
ITEM / Notes
1.Approval Minutes of the Away day Rome, January 2016 / Minutes of Rome approved jointly
2.Opening by President and Presidents report / Chiara welcomes al participants and expresses her regret for the apologies of ML, KW and AP. She thanks the group for the hard work for the 2016 congress. We will have more than 400 attendees expected.
After a look at the list of attending counties, (most from Italy, Turkey and Israel) Chiara suggest to think about new strategies to include new east countries and improve the participation from west countries.
One of the main point of this meeting is about the situation of Kevan and the next presidency of EFS
3.Vice President report
3a.Relation with WAS, WHO, Flasses
3b.Report East Europe Meetings
3c. Presidency 2017-2020; 2020-2024 / Kevan asked to wait until 1st September 2016 before take any decision on the future of the presidency. Moshe is a candidate to substitute Kevan if is medical condition won’t permit his position. The away-day will be anticipated in autumn if Kevan is not ready to work for September
4.General Secretary Report
Financial Report 2014-2015
Budget 2016
Collecting membership fee and approval of fees for 2017-2018 / Prepare and send a letter to Miren to understand if she is still interested to be involved in the EC board
Proposal of 3 different fees (from 2017):
- Small societies (less than 100 people) 150€
- Medium societies (between 100 and 400 people) 300 €
- Big societies (More than 400 people) 450€
Woet Gianotten will be asked to be the president of the GA
MM shares the financial report and explain that, due the financial loss of this congress, there are some changes on the 2016 budget. In accordance with AIM, some elements of the congress are paid by EFS. Fortunately we have saved some money with the away-day in Rome, which was under the budget expectances
5.Gold medal report / The gold medals are still not arrived. We will give a bottle of wine as a price during the opening. The Gold medal will be given during the president dinner
6.Committee reports:
6a.Educational Committee
6b.New members Committee
6c.Scientific Committee
6d.Website, social and Youth Group
6e.Statues committee / 6a. They are going to have a symposium on educational proposal (Friday 27)
6b. All new candidates have been approved by EC and will be presented to the GA
6c. We have one of the best program of ever, even if we have to face some last minute problem. For the first time we are going to give 7 different prizes to young attendees.
6d. We are growing up as social network impact. The youth group had their first meeting in the morning and they shared a lot of new ideas and the willing to be more active in the federation for the future.
6e. Elsa shows some minor revisions of the status before the GA approval / WPA symposium: Sandra will substitute Antonio
7.New PCO, Bids and presentations for 2018 congress / No informal proposal at the moment. The GA will be asked to make some proposal for both PCO and new venue (2018 congress)
Dekon PCO will be asked to make a different proposal (up to 400 attendees)
8.Any other business
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