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Dear Colleagues,</p>
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Informatics Europe requests your help in recruiting candidates for its Board of Directors. Our organisation needs individuals who have time, energy, initiative, and resources to work on Informatics Europe issues on behalf of our membership. We seek European research leaders who are willing to actively engage in Informatics Europe's activities and to contribute to setting its strategy for development. Candidates must be affiliated with a regular member of Informatics Europe.</p>
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At the 2019 Annual General Assembly, around 5 new candidates will be proposed for election. Their term of 2 years will start in January 2020 and they can be re-elected for another 2 years.</p>
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The Board is responsible for overseeing the operations and finances of Informatics Europe (see more details on the <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/about/bylaws.html">Informatics Europe Bylaws</a>). It meets as a whole to discuss current activities and strategic issues once a month via a 1 hour conference call, and three times per year for full day face-to-face meetings. Of these, one is in conjunction with our annual ECSS conference. Board members are expected to self-support travel expenses incurred through their role.<br>
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Board members are expected to take an active role in membership drive initiatives in addition to contributing actively to working groups and high-level activities. Often a Board member is responsible for a specific activity.</p>
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Working groups can be permanent, such as on Education or WIRE (Women in Informatics Research and Education); others have a special focus and are normally expected to provide shorter term results (e.g., specific reports, recommendations, or policy setting documents).</p>
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High-level activities are core domains strategically important for the development of the organization and strengthening its membership. Examples include Increasing Membership, EU Visibility, Improving Networking, Data Collection and Reporting.</p>
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The <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/about/nominating-committee.html" moz-do-not-send="true">Nomination Committee</a> will carefully consider all nominations. Important criteria considered by the committee include: <b>geographical distribution, gender balance, research area diversity, distribution of member institutions</b><b> sizes</b><b>, </b><b>balance between academic and industrial representation, </b><b>seniority, evidence of leadership and previous contributions to the Informatics community.</b></p>
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<b>Important dates and events:</b></p>
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<b>March 18, 2019, </b><b>deadline for receipt of nominations. </b></li>
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On May 24, 2019, the Informatics Europe Board will vote to approve the slate of candidates recommended by the Nomination Committee.</li>
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On September 20, 2019, the approved slate of candidates will be presented to member representatives with the invitation to the 2019 Annual General Assembly.</li>
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On October 29, 2019 elections will be held at the 2019 Annual General Assembly in Rome, during the ECSS 2019.</li>
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<b>Questions can be sent to Lynda Hardman (<span class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lynda.hardman@informatics-europe.org" moz-do-not-send="true">lynda.hardman@informatics-europe.org</a></span>) Chair of the Board Nomination Committee. </b></p>
<b>Current and past Board members can be found on: </b><b><a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/about/board.html" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.informatics-europe.org/about/board.html</a></b>
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With best regards,</p>
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<i>Lynda Hardman, Manuel Hermenegildo, Hannes Werthner</i></p>
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<i>Informatics Europe Board Nomination Committee</i></p>
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