EU-Coordinators Network Annual Meeting
The EU Co-ordinators Network's annual meeting
was organised in Aalborg on 17-18 June 2002. It was the
sixth gathering since the network's founding. At the meeting
there was a clear aim at how to develop the network internally
by focusing on its composition and its future activities.
It was agreed that the overall objective
of the EU Co-ordinator network would be to strengthen the
accession cities and EU member cities by acting as a catalyst
for making joint projects between UBC members of the network.
Also, participation in projects implies that partner cities
are actively involved and commit themselves in order to
gain from other members' experiences. Synergy is expected
from a joint co-operation, and new approaches to be developed.
In order to further develop the EU coordinators
network it was agreed to set up a steering group, which
should act as an active body aiming at revitalizing the
network and including more active members. The focal point
will be to assist in bringing more partners together in
order to elaborate joint projects, with emphasis on EU funding
programmes.
Tasks for the members of the Steering group
will be distributed with the aim to help the network in
coping with the overall objective.
The steering group was partly established
and composed by four members and the chair (presently Aalborg).
At least one of these members should origin from the CEEC.
The following members were chosen: Nykebing Falster, Denmark;
Pori, Finland; Juhan Janusson, UBC . From the CEEC no decision
was taken yet and volunteers are welcome!
The tasks of the Steering group will be to
maintain and develop the infrastructure of communication
within the network to serve the members needs. This implies
setting up a Group Care on the Internet. Three steering
group meetings will be organised yearly. In combination
herewith there will be two annual meetings for the entire
EU co-ordinator network. One of the important tasks of the
Steering group is to keep an updated list of available funds
with relevance for the network participants. This list should
entail both publicised possible EU funding programmes, dates
for submission, and more importantly indications of upcoming
calls for proposals etc.
The next annual meeting will take place November
21st, 22nd and 23rd November.
If there is no proposal from members in the CEEC to host
the meeting, the next meeting will be held in Brussels.
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