Minutes of ENBES Steering Committee (SC) Meeting – 11 October 2013
Present:Boris Lorenc, Shirley Coleman (minutes), MojcaBavdaž,WimKloek, Daniel Assoulin
1)Adoption of Agenda and Other Formalities
Agenda for the meeting proposed by Boris (E-mail 4 October) was adopted.Minutes of the August 22ndmeeting were adopted by the SC.
2)Renewing the SC and the WGs (the former by invitation, the latter by general call and invitation); coordination of the WGs
Borisnoted discussions during a meeting at lunchtime in the 3rd day at Nuremburg to reconsider SC membership. Boris now invited suggestions for people to invite to join the SC. Shirley reported that she would like to stand down due to her work currently focusing more on utilities data analysis and lecturing. The SC thanked her for her contributions over the last 2 years. The SC agreed to invite the following people to join the SC:
Paul-AndréSalamin (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
Deirdre Giesen (CBS)
JacekKowalewski(Statistical Office in Poznan)
Li-Chun Zhang (U Southampton/SSB)
Ria Sanderson (ONS)
And Paul Smith as first reserve to represent UK interests if Li-Chun or Ria areunavailable.
Jacek and Deirdre are prospective local organisers for the next workshop, EESW2015.
3) Reflections on and evaluation of the EESW2013 workshop
Wim informed that feedback so far received was very positive. He will be conducting a Gap Analysis to check the range of topics covered, for example he wondered whether Business Registers should have more exposure; and also to look at the spread of participants in terms of their geographical location and expertise/interests. Boris asked Wim for a final report on the feedback so that Boris can include it in the next Newsletter to ENBES membership. Wim agreed to send this.
4) Reflections and first thoughts on actions regarding the stations' summaries
Boris circulated the station summaries with the agenda. They were acknowledged as very interesting and will be good on the ENBES website.
5) Communication towards the participants and/or to general ENBES list.
There is now enough material and enough need to send out a new Newsletter to the ENBES list. The newsletter will inform about the workshop (item (3) above), material available on enbes.org from it, invite to join further ENBES activities (WGs and other activities, item (2) above), and include other news. Boris will send a first draft to the SC by about 20th October.
6) Other matter (next regional seminar(s); the Bielefeld conference; other)
Boris mentioned that he is organising a seminar in Stockholm for January 2014. It will focus on Business Statistics. Shirley expressed an interest in attending.
7) Next call
This will be mid November. Boris will send a doodle.