As announced at the last Steering Group meeting on February 16, elections for the Management Committee members will take place during the next General Assembly on April 5.

Which position to run for? The current Management Committee has completed its two year term. You can therefore nominate candidates for the positions of:

• one president
• two Vice-Presidents
• one Treasurer
• and three Ordinary Members

Application documents: nomination must include the following documents in order to be valid:

• nomination letter of your organization
• motivation letter by the candidate (indicating for which position/s do you apply)
• candidate’s CV

Gender balance requirement and suggested criteria: When nominating a candidate, the last Steering Group reminded all members to take into account the following:

• Article 17 of our internal rules requires gender balance in the composition of the Management Committee. Therefore men and women should be nominated for position in the MC.
• It was suggested to try to balance representation in the MC between candidates from user/service providers, from the different strands (social inclusion, Fundamental Rights and Equality, services (SGI and SSGI)), from different geographic areas (in particular new member states) and from Brussels based/or not organizations.

Deadline: application should be sent to Ariella by March 15.

Process:

• All the received and receivable applications will be sent to members of Steering Group on March 22
• At the GA, there will be:

We are looking forwards receiving your application!

Let us remind you that you can register for the General Assembly until March 7, and that full members are invited to send up to two delegates and Associate members may attend at their own expense, and have speaking but no voting rights.