Last News before General Assembly FSUE
Dear Caving Friends / Chers Amis Speleo,
Summertime has come and the time for camps and expeditions too ! This message to give you some lastest news before our General Assembly meeting (GAM) on next 14th of August in Visby-Sweden during the Baltic Speleological Congress (BSC) “EuroSpeleo Forum 2007″. I’ve been told that it’s a fantastic kartic island, very charmful and a middleage atmosphere … It is still time to register on http://www.speleo.se/bsc/ , and please note that the participation to the GAM and FSUE public meeting on the day before are completly free of access for European cavers.
FSUE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING :
You’ll find here ( http://fsue.org/main3/papers/gam/gam2007/AgendaGAM-AG-FSUE2007-11.pdf ) the updated agenda for the GAM, where 4 topics indicated by (*) were added during last Bureau meeting in the points 9 and 10. The most important added topic is of course the compulsary change of headquarters from Brussels for the FSUE. As a matter of fact the European Commission (EC) informed us recently that we have to register outside of the EC in a member-state. So we’ll need to have a debate to decide if we keep our headquarters in Belgium (Namur for exemple), or if we move to other places, like Luxembourg where we have our postal box and bank account, Lyon where we have our archives and internet website, Madrid from where we add several invitations before, or another member-state. Of course your remarks on this issue are welcome. You can see previous remarks and give yours on :
http://fsue.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=313#p313
The other important point is the FSUE delegates representation in Sweden. Please inform us asap if you will be present at the GAM or who will represent you. If you need a proxy form to be represented, you can find it on :
http://fsue.org/main3/papers/gam/fsue_gam_proxy.doc
You can scan it and send it back by email to contact@eurospeleo.org
COMING SOON :
* Baltic Speleological Congress (BSC) “EuroSpeleo Forum 2007″, avec AG, Débat Publique et Stand FSUE&Vercors 2008, more info on : http://www.speleo.se/bsc/
* 11th European Bat Night (All over Europe on 25-26 August) & British Bat Conference 2007 in Yorkshire end of August. See : http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main4/agenda-2007.html#2007-08-25
* 12th Swiss Speleological Congress on 15-17 Sept in the Vallée de Joux where there will be FSUE&Vercors2008 stand and Public meeting. Information & Registration on : http://congres2007.speleo.ch/
* Hidden Earth 2007, the famous British meeting, on 21-23 Sept in the West Middlands also with a FSUE&Vercors2008 stand and Public meeting. More info on : http://www.hidden-earth.org.uk/
* and thanks to our European webwaster BTH, you can now find more than 75 events on the European FSUE Agenda on : http://fsue.org/main4/agenda-2007.html
If you want to publish new events for 2007, 2008 or 2009 please send us the details at : contact@eurospeleo.org
IN LIVE WITH BRUSSELS :
Despite our disapointment not to be anymore able to be hosted at the EC in Brussels, here are some fresh news from the EU :
A 2-days training about the European financial aids for sports activities have been held in Paris end of May, organised by the CNOSF (French Olympic Comitee). We were present there and if you intend to make a financial request to the EC we can now help you better and advise you on the mounting of your file. The whole information is on :
http://fsue.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=310#p310
As you know, the FSUE Bureau have participated to several meetings in Brussels about the White paper on Sports prepared by the Sport Unit of the European Commission. We want to announce you that the European Commission adopted the White Paper on Sport on the 11th of July. All details on : http://fsue.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=311#p311
EXPLORATION :
A Roumanian and Swiss expedition including cavers from Hungary, Norway, UK, France, Austria and Portugal is going to organise end of July the second European survey camp in Tabara Humpleu to remap the 2nd largest Roumanian cave. They have received the EuroSpeleo Projects label. All the details are on :
http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main6/eurospeleo-projects.html#esp-4
DID YOU KNOW ?
During next Public meeting in Sweden on 13th of August at 16h30, there will be a presentation/debate by the German Federation representives about “Cave Tourism”. As a matter of fact, together with the Swiss and Austrian federations, the VdHK has established standards for “Cave Trekkings” and “Show Caves”, and it would be interesting to see how it can be usefull for other European countries, and decide if the FSUE needs to have an official position on this topic. The work on it could be included inside the workgroup “Caves Protection” and “European Regulations”. In order to open the debate the reference texts are available in English, German and French on :
http://fsue.org/main6/projects/cavetourism/
You can post you remarks on the forum on http://fsue.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=312#p312 or send them to : contact@eurospeleo.org , and if you are interested to participate to this work, even if you can not attend the public debate please let us know also by email.
About the EuroSpeleo newsletter you also access to the articles of the digital version of it on :
http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main3/papers.html#section4 , and by scrolling down up to the bottom, you’ll discover the latest articles.
THE DELEGATES’ CORNER :
Dear delegates, can you please confirm asap by email your presence at next GAM in Sweden at contact@eurospeleo.org
Also we invite every delegate to print and bring the following documents to the GAM in Sweden :
Updated Agenda, Proposals for Statutes, Proposals for Internal Regulations and Annex Simulation Fees. They are available on :
http://fsue.org/main3/papers/gam/gam2007/
And if you still need it with you, eventually the last Kalamos GAM report that will be submitted to your approval and that was sent to you by post-mail during last winter. It’s also available on : http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main3/papers.html#section3
We wish you nice expeditions and “premiere” during this summer, if you wish you can send us your results on contact@eurospeleo.org to be published in our EuroSpeleo newsletter, See you in Visby,
For the Bureau FSUE,
Olivier Vidal
Secr. General FSUE
+33 / 6 81 61 16 70Email : contact@eurospeleo.org
Website : www.fsue.org
Forums : http://fsue.org/forums/
European Congress : http://vercors2008.eu