EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION of RESEARCH MANAGERS and ADMINISTRATORS

Announcement

EARMA “Free Trial Institutional Membership” for Research Institutions from Accession Countries 2002

 

EARMA set out to bring our colleagues from the Accession Countries to the EARMA Annual Conference 2002 in Budapest in order to cultivate the networking between professional colleagues from East, Center and West of Europe and enhance the professional standing for all of us. 

To amplify this idea the EARMA Executive Committee decided to announce a Free Trial Institutional Membership for 2002 for research institutions from these countries, that intend to send one or more delegates to the EARMA Annual Conference 2002, subject to the rules set out below..

EARMA, as the leading association of research managers and administrators across Europe, which sets the highest standards for research management and administration, is convinced that with this step it will contribute to the cohesion of Europe in general and to the cohesion between Europe’s research managers and administrators in particular.

If you qualify, EARMA invites you now to profit from this offer by applying for this Free Trial Institutional Membership. 

Here is how interested, qualified institutions should proceed: 

Register as a new Institutional Member via the EARMA Website www.earma.org. Click “About EARMA”, go to “Membership” and click the button “Application”. 

On the online registration form, applicants should use the field “Institution“ to enter the name of the organization followed by the text “Free Trial IM Accession Countries 2002”

Please do all you can to publicise this offer among your contacts with regional and national research institutions from the defined geographic area. 

Questions on this offer may be addressed to the following e-mail-address: pbuettner@swissonline.ch.

We are looking forward to welcoming many qualified institutions to EARMA and Budapest! 

Peter BüttnerHeikki Mäkipää

Member EARMA Executive Committee and                             Member EARMA Executive Committee and 

Announcement-Rules 

EARMA announces a Free Trial EARMA Institutional Membership for universities and research organisations from the Accession Countries, subject to the rules spelled out below.

Background: 

At its Berlin Meeting on 27 Oct 2001 the EARMA Executive Committee agreed to offer a Free Trial Institutional Membership for one year to universities and research organisations from the Accession Countries. This offer is a part of EARMAs programme “Go East” and the promotional campaign related to the EARMA Budapest annual conference 2002 to reach its goal of 50% participants from the Accession Countries.

This offer is subject to the following RULES: 

1.Eligibility: Eligible are Universities and research organisations from the Accession Countries that formally requested it AND register/send one or more delegates to the EARMA Budapest 2002 annual conference. 

2.Under this offer, delegates from such Free Trial EARMA Institutional Members will be accepted to the EARMA Budapest 2002 annual conference at the membership rate.

3.The time-window of opportunity for applications to this EARMA programme opens on the day of the Second Call of the EARMA Annual Conference 2002 and closes on the close of the businessday when the Budapest conference registration closes.

4.This Free Trial EARMA Institutional Members lasts for the calendar year 2002. At the beginning of 2003, Free Trial EARMA Institutional Members are invited to become “regular” EARMA Institutional Members by paying the regular fee for such membership for 2003 (currently € 500.-).

5.Free Trial EARMA Institutional Members have the same rights and duties as any other EARMA Institutional Member.

6.An “ad hoc board“ accepts/rejects applications within ten working days after submission. The ad hoc board is composed of the following members of the EARMA Executive Committee: Heikki Mäkipää (Head of the EARMA “Go East” Working Group), Peter Büttner (EARMA Liaison Officer to the Budapest Organisers and International Vicepresident of the Budapest Programme Committee). Acting as secretary is Monica Gonzales, Manager of the EARMA Main Office in Brussels. 

7.The “ad hoc board” has the authority to decide on justified exceptions to these rules. 

8.If, within ten days after the acceptance of the application, there is no registration for the EARMA Budapest conference 2002, the affected Free Trial EARMA Institutional Member will be reminded by e-mail and if no appropriate action occurs within another ten days the Free Trial EARMA Institutional Membership will be terminated. 

9.In case of disagreement with a decision of the ad hoc board the affected institution can bring it before the bureau of the EARMA Executive Committee (President, Vicepresidents, Treasurer, Secretary) for final decision within a reasonable time. 

Application:

Please register for this EARMA programme by registering normally as a new Institutional Member via the EARMA Website www.earma.org, click “About EARMA”, go to “Membership” and click the button “Application”. 

On the online registration form, applicants should use the field “Institution“ to enter the name of the organization followed by the text “free trial IM Accession Countries 2002”