[ecrea] [NEWS] Call for Candidacies for ECREA’s Executive Board

Call for Candidacies for ECREA’s Executive Board

At the 4th European Communication Conference, 24-27 October 2012 in 
Istanbul, the new ECREA Executive Board will be elected by the General 
Assembly. ECREA would like to invite its members to put forward their 
candidacies for the new Board. The call for candidacies is now open 
until 24 August 2012.

Candidates for the Executive Board should send the following documents 
to the election committee, consisting of Pertti Hurme 
((pertti.hurme /at/ jyu.fi)) and Claudia Alvares ((claudia.alvares /at/ ulusofona.pt)):

-        A position statement
-        A short CV
-        A copy of ID-card or passport and an official  document 
confirming their residency
-        A statement specifying which position the candidate is running 
for (President, Vice-President, Treasurer,  General-Secretary or regular 
Executive Board Member)

The candidacies will be publicly announced by 24 September 2012. A 
candidate for the Executive Board is elected by simple majority at the 
General Assembly. After the elections, the handover and training for the 
new Board will be organized by the outgoing Board on 28 October 2012 in 
Istanbul. The candidates for the new Board are encouraged to plan their 
trip to the ECC 2012 accordingly.

The election of the Executive Board takes place in two stages. During 
the first phase, which is the subject of this call, a maximum of 12 
members will be elected by the General Assembly in Istanbul. In the 
General Assembly, ECREA members can vote for one candidate from the pool 
of candidates and the 12 candidates who get the highest number of votes 
will be elected. The first phase is organized by the election committee, 
which was nominated by the ECREA Executive Board and, as already 
mentioned above, consists of Pertti Hurme (as a current Executive Board 
member) and Claudia Alvares (as a non-Executive Board member of ECREA).

In the second phase, a new General Assembly will be convened to elect 
the Networks representative, the Sections representative and the 
Temporary Working Groups representative. These three representatives in 
the Executive Board cannot be elected in Istanbul, as the Networks and 
Sections are having their own management staff elections there. The 
second phase of the Executive Board elections will, therefore, be 
organized by the new Executive Board after the ECC 2012.

In accordance with the ECREA Statutes (article 12) and Bylaws (article 
7), a number of current board members cannot run for candidacy at the 
next election, including the current President François Heinderyckx, the 
Vice-President/Treasurer Nico Carpentier and the General Secretary 
Tamara Witschge.

Further information on the election procedure for the ECREA Executive 
Board, including the general timeline, can be found in the ECREA Bylaws 
(http://www.ecrea.eu/about/bylaws)and Statutes 
(http://www.ecrea.eu/about/statutes).



Best regards,



Pertti Hurme
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Claudia Alvares
Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal

The ECREA election committee



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