Dear EuNet colleagues,
It was an honour to be elected President of the network recently, and I am looking very much forward to the work over the next three years. I was one of the co-founders of EuNet in 2004, and during that period I have been very active:
on the board and as coordinator for the Committee for Content and Methodology;
in two major projects - EuNet INTI and Waves of Democracy 2007, which have been successful and innovative and will hopefully be further developed and continued.
As President I shall not be as active as before in the committee - but I still believe that project development and the carrying out of projects/activities are at the core of the work in EUNET. Without developing new projects/activities and implementing them the network has no purpose.
That said I know one of the main tasks for the new board will be to consolidate and expand our network. It was uphill for us until we received the operation grant from the EU – without which we shouldn’t have been able to continue. We owe great thanks to our former president and to French members of the European Parliament that we finally succeeded in obtaining this grant, and a major concern will be to convince Brussels that the right decision was taken and secure the grant beyond the year 2010 by expanding the network. To consolidate this basis for our operations, negotiations with Brussels will be a major job for me and the board.
Fortunately we still have a lot of expertise within the board. Thus continuity will be preserved, alongside the very professional input expected from our new board members. All done in close cooperation with our permanent secretary, who is experienced and skilled and runs the organisation efficiently on a daily basis.
I also hope to see member organisations becoming more actively involved, in a variety of activities/projects that we can all benefit from. We rely heavily upon input from our members and shall do everything to make communications better and more efficient - but it also goes the other way round. With our very professional website and newsletters we have good opportunities for keeping in contact between meetings and assemblies, and I hope you will make good use of these and post your activities/meetings here for all of us to benefit from. Also I hope I will have the opportunity to visit a number of your institutions, take part in meetings and conferences to get better acquainted with you and your Houses/Academies etc.
A final thing I want to point to is that I believe we are in sincere lack of a youth committee in our network. Those of you who were in Salzburg met Barbara Lucius, who introduced Youth Moving Europe - and at the next board meeting, in Bonn in December, we shall discuss the possibility of setting up a new committee.
I am looking very much forward to our cooperation in the future.
Sincerely
Nina Norgaard
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