EARMA thanks you for a successful Conference

Dear EARMA members, dear Participants of the 17. Annual Conference in Braganca Portugal,

On behalf of the EARMA Board, The Annual Conference Committee and our Host in Portugal and at IPB I hereby thank you all for your participation and contribution.

The EARMA AC 2011 was held with more than 220 Participants from 31 Countries. From the Pre-conference event 22 June to the EARMA Policy Forum 25 June, members, guests, chairs and speakers made a fantastic effort to contribute to a high level - high gain conference.

A special thanks goes to our International guests, that gave the possibility for networking on a global scale. The Collaboration with NCURA was reinforced, and soon a call for Fellows in the EARMA-NCURA Fellowship Programme will be launched - If your institution wants to become a Host: It is not to late - let us know. Also our other colleagues in sister associations in INORMS: SRA, ARMS, SARIMA and DARMA together with friends from China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries made this EARMA conference a true global event.

A big thanks to the Municipality of Braganca and the IPB for being wonderful hosts of our conference! A new and wonderful picture of Europe has been shown to us, and we take it to our hearts.

Thanks also for the tremendous and outstanding job by speakers and chairs, making this conference to one of the best conferences of EARMA ever, when it comes to high quality presentations, workshops and outcome. We really do appreciate your contribution!
Also a big thanks to our sponsors, that made this event possible.

A new EARMA Board was elected and re-elected on the General Assembly:
Jan Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Chair
Susanne Rahner, Yggdrasil, Berlin, Germany, Board member
David Lauder, York University, UK, Board member
Milly Perry, Open University, Israel, Board member
Ivo Becezny, Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic, Board member
John Donovan, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, Board member

We will work for you!

You are hereby invited to share your own experience and pictures from the conference with your colleagues. A competition for the best pictures is hereby launched: there are 2 categories: 1. Program and 2. Leisure - There will be a prize for the 2 best pictures - selected by the Board at the Board meeting in August - deadline for contribution is 1. August 2011 (please sent to webmaster@earma.org) . Pictures shall be uploaded to www.earma.org

All presentations will be present on the conference website: http://www.earma-braganca2011.org/

 - where you also can find pictures and other relevant information to share with your colleagues.

We also remind you, that the CALL for contribution to the next Annual Conference in Dublin 8. - 11. June 2012 is now open: http://www.earma-dublin-2012.com/
Again, Thank you very much for making EARMA Braganca 2011 an event to remember!

Jan Andersen, EARMA Chair