Report of the general assembly

As the result of discussions in Firenze, specific actions will be envisaged based upon the main points made in each of the discussion groups:

  1. Establishment of a Website (see also the report of M. Lazaridou and L. Lewan)
  2. European Ph.D. network (see the report of G. Van de Vijver )
  3. Quality assessment: possible test case in 6 or 7 universities
  4. Continuous education (see the report of H. Epton)
  5. European dimensions: data bank of European diplomas, of Modular courses, of field stations (to be included in Website)
  6. ECTS: data bank (to be included in Website)

Statutes
After the presentation of the statutes in which C. Susanne strongly suggested maintaining a high degree of flexibility, the proposed statutes (attached) were adopted by the assembly. Comments on the responsibilities of Eurobio for a thematic network should be however included.
The council will be elected every 2 years by the general assembly and will consist of one member for each E.U. state. An executive committee, consisting of a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, will be elected by each new council.

Council
In the absence of a formal, advanced notice for this GA and due to the fact no formal membership has been organised, C. Susanne asked the assembly for permission to continue in 97-98 with the organising committee on condition that

The assembly agreed with this arrangement.

Executive committee
For the current year, and for one year only, the committee would be as follows
President: C. Susanne (Brussels)
Vice-President: C. Kastritsis (Thessaloniki); L. Lewan (Lund)
Secretary: P. Gahan (London)
Treasurer: J. Parnell (Dublin)

Next meeting
For the next meeting (June 98) the executive committee will consider the possibilities of organising a meeting in either Brussels or Madrid (or also, eventually, in Paris) and will make a choice as a function of the lowest cost.

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