ECLAS General Assembly ECLAS conference Hamburg 2013

Apologies for absence Sophia Meeres (University College Dublin) Sirpa Törrönen (Aalto University, Helsinki) Kinga Szilagyi (Corvinus University, Budapest) Eckart Lange (Sheffield University)

ECLAS General Assembly agenda 1.Opening by the President 2.Apologies for absence 3.Approval of the Agenda 4.Adoption of the minutes of the GA Meeting in Warsaw Report of the Executive Committee: –Annual Report –Treasurer’s report 2012 & Scrutinizers report –Approval of standing orders and business plan 6.Elections of members of the Executive Committee 7.ECLAS/IFLA Europe - update 8.LE:NOTRE 3 Project and LE:NOTRE Institute 9.Announcement of election results 10.Calendar 11.AOCB

Minutes of the 2012 General Assembly The minutes of the last GA were issued by the secretary general – Kristine Vugule - by and are also on Up/Download area of the website. We assume you have read them. Any questions or comments on accuracy? If nothing significant to alter we move to a vote –Proposer? –Seconder?

Report of the Executive Committee: The annual report has been sent out by and we assume you have read it. Highlights –Extraordinary GA to accept new standing orders and business plan –Refinement and clarification of membership offer –Le:Notre Instutute founded –First full set of ECLAS awards –JoLA to move to 3 issues per year (following section)

JoLA news We have not added this to GA agenda, but it could fit under report of executive commitee, Karsten will have some slides

Treasurer’s report 2012 & Scrutinizers report

Approval of the standing orders and business plan In January of 2013 we held an online Extraordinary General Meeting in order to give the EC interim approval of the redrafted and expanded Standing Orders and also the new draft Business Plan. Approval was given. These two documents now need formal approval by the GA. Both are available on the website and we assume you have read them. Please use the voting forms provided to approve or not the two documents. Schools unable to be present have had the opportunity to vote by proxy.

Elections of members of the Executive Committee The following committee members are resigning: Jeroen de Vries – to join the LNI board Harlind Libbrecht – to join the LNI board Sirpa Törrönen Karoline Liedtke (coopted for the duration of the conference planning) The term of the following ordinary member of the committee has expired: Erich Buhmann The following coopted members who joined following the 2012 GA are nominated to be elected: Sabine Bouche Pillon Maria Ignatieva Marlies Brinkhuijsen The committee is also open to additional co-opted members and Teresa Andresen has been put forward as one such for planning the Porto conference.

Elections of members of the Executive Committee There have been no further nominations and since the number of candidates standing replaces the number leaving the committee stays the same size. The GA is asked to approve these nominations using the voting forms. Schools unable to be present have had the chance to vote by proxy and these will be added to the votes cast at the GA Please therefore indicate your approval or disapproval of: Erich Buhmann Sabine Bouche Pillon Maria Ignatieva Marlies Brinkhuijsen As ordinary members. Teresa Andresen will be coopted by the committee and anyone else interested in joining can also be coopted and then voted on next year.

LE:NOTRE 3 Project LE:NOTRE Institute Presentation by Richard Stiles

ECLAS/IFLA Europe Discussions between ECLAS and IFLA Europe have been going on since last December with the aim of producing a “Pathway to the profession of landscape architect in Europe” document for approval at this GA but progress has been slow and it is far from ready. An updated agreement on cooperation was signed by the two presidents in April. The ECLAS team includes Erich Buhmann, Sophia Meeres and Richard Stiles.

Calendar –Date of General Assembly in 2014 –Next conferences Porto, Portugal 2014 Tartu, Estonia 2015

Any other business Has anyone anything relevant they would like to raise or communicate?