Dear member of the “E&N” Working group,

At the beginning of February I introduced our working group at the General Assembly of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. It has been a great event and it was nice to see that people are still extremely enthusiastic in pursuing the objectives of the association. I also had the opportunity to meet some of you and to discuss about the future work.

I prepared this document because I need the collaboration of all the members of this Working Group because there is an important deadline: the 8th May 2015. By this date we need to spend all the remaining money allocated for our Working group. The money available should be slightly more than 4000.00 €.

I hope you understand we need to collaborate URGENTLY! And your collaboration is indispensable!!!

Please, read below about our future work. There will be a poll to ask your availability to discuss about it and to organize the two/three subchapters by the end of the coming week! We have two months time!

Thank you,

Francesco 

 

Aim of the proposal

The Events and Networking Working Group (“E&N” WG) wants to organize two or three events in two or three different countries where there are no available chapters. Around 15 people are asked to collaborate and they will divided into 3 groups, called Sub-chapters. Each person has a different task

Which are the subchapters?

The first question we should ask ourselves is where we want to spread the voice of MCAA. To make a decision, there are two main constraints:

1. Where there are no chapters (regional working group)
2. Where the number of MC alumni is higher

Table 1 replies to the first question, listing all the chapters of the Association.

Table 1. Current MCAA chapters.

African chapter Argentina chapter Austrian chapter Balear chapter BeNeLux chapter South Africa Chapter

Croatian Chapter Israeli Chapter Nordic Chapter Northern Italy Chapter German Chapter Russian Chapter

Paris & Ile de France Chapter Sicily chapter Spain-Portugal Chapter United Kingdom Chapter California Chapter

Table 1 shows that the, except the Russian chapter, the Association is not present in the Eastern Europe. It is therefore important to proceed in organizing the networking events there.

To respect the second constraint, Table 2 provides all the important information.

Table 2. Information about the countries and their fellows.

Country	Current Country	Host Country	Nationality
Greece	48	57	267
Poland	30	35	191
Hungary	20	21	70
Czech Republic	24	17	38
Romania	15	10	90
Bulgaria	16	7	58
Estonia	3	6	9
Slovakia	4	2	21
Lithuania	1	2	10
Latvia	1	2	1
Belarus	1	-	13

 

The three countries with the highest number of people are Greece, Poland and Hungary. We will go there! 

Organization proposed

Each person who has decided to collaborate will join one specific sub-chapter.

Table 3. Number of people indispensable for each sub-chapter.

	Country 1	Country 2	Country 3
Total number of members
Responsible	Francesco Sanna	Francesco Sanna	Francesco Sanna
Treasurer	1	1	1
Contact for members	1	1	2
Contact national point	1	1	1
Pubblicità	1	1	1

 

Future Work

1) ORganize the three subchapters

2) Organize meeting for each subchapter