MCAA elections and more
Some time ago I posted this question in the MCFA FB group: "what is the difference between the MCFA and the MCAA?", not any reply.
Now I try to ask it here again, what is the difference between MCFA and MCAA?
What is the need of having a new association of MC if there is already one?
In a previous discussion Panopoulos wrote the MCAA has been created "to support ALL Marie Curie Alumni", what does this mean? MCFA is not doing it (I mean ALL)?
I see that almost all the MCFA board is candidated to the MCAA elections and they are all present to the GA. They are already a group (probably strong) within
many other people not knowing each other (except 300 characters for describing themsleves and their motivations ...), so why not directly migrating all the MCFA board to the MCAA board? How can I vote for someone that I do not know or I have never met? I suggest all the candidates (for all the positions) to post here what they think, what idea they have about the MCAA, what they would like to do and how to act. We have just 1 week for knowing each other.
My idea of international association is a bit different. First of all there should be transparency, then there should be communication and finally all the different
situations must be represented. MC is not just european, it involves people from all around the world and located all around the world, we should give the opportunity to everybody to vote and to be represented. For many people it is difficult to move (for several reasons) and not coming to the GA they do not have the right to vote (online elections?).
In the statute (that we do not know and we must approve ... of course the board can change it, but why discussing it just with a few people of MCFA instead all the MC?) should be clear that in the board must be present people from all the continents (or located in all of them), people part of different actions (IEF, IOF, IIF and whatever ...) and/or coming from different fields otherwise we risk not having a balanced representations especially in a group of people so fragmented! How can EU people know what problems a non-EU must face coming here? That's why international entities have in their boards representatives of all countries.
I'm sure many other issues could be raised discussing with all the MC.
Probably this post will not like to someone, but I think before taking decisions the discussion is fundamental so please post here as much as you can!
... Sorry but I like provoking people :-)
Riccardo