1. LESI Education Committee Meeting Chicago, May 4, 2008
Chair: Ada C. Nielsen LES USA/Canada
Vice-Chair: Christi Mitchell LES Britain/Ireland
Vice-Chair: Beesan Babieh LES Arab Countries
Executive Committee Liaison: Stephen Powell

2. Outlook: Current Year Activities - 2008
EU sponsored “CERTIFIED TRANS-NATIONAL TT MANAGER" - Building up a framework to qualify TT- Managers on a trans-national level and with mutual recognition"
Christi Mitchell is our representative – and one of our links to USA-Canada certification development plan
Offerings:
Fundamentals -
Britain & Ireland – England, April 2008
Scheduled for
India, July 2008
Columbia, September 2008
National Licensing Course, Germany, Modules I, II, III, IV – February, April, September, November
Awareness and licensing course – India, January 2008
Licensing of IP Media – Russia – June 2008
International Symposium – Japan – January 2008

3. Outlook: End of Year Activities - 2007
Tech Transfer Course, Switzerland, October 2007
Licensing Course, Japan, November 2007
Stephanie Silverstein conducted a survey of all societies, asking for their educational offers. The complete list for 2007 and 2008 will be posted on the website and includes a list of many of the meetings
Open question today about how we can encourage
More educational offers – e.g., Britain and Ireland’s success
Stronger responses to request for information

4. New Course Offered: 1-day
Licensed from LES South Africa; will require sub-licenses
Used multiple times there to build demand for Fundamentals
Offered in Hong Kong in January 2008 – Yvonne Chua was successful in attracting 70 attendees
Ideal for newer societies – and Chapters in USA-Canada will offer it
Will now be added to course offers only on the condition that a prospective instructor attends a 2-day train-the-trainer course
Attending TTT also will also qualify in part for teaching Fundamentals (instructors have to attend a Fundamentals course before teaching)
Chicago – May 9-10 – expect between attendees
Paris – September 24-25

5. Miscellaneous
Stephanie Silverstein maintains the list of qualified instructors
We have had a few telecons but they are difficult to schedule for the range of time zones; we will continue them
Lessons learned: sustained commitment to Education tends to strengthen the membership base and broaden it towards more business-commercial members
We are having a co-committee meeting with USA-Canada Education Committee on Monday, May 8

6. Other needs
Website SPA (Single Point of Accountability) – Beesan Babieh
Regular teleconferences
Call – toll free in US and Canada
Enter the conference code #
Toll-free numbers available for other countries
Need to find preferred time