Executive Committee Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria
The EPS Executive Committee travelled to Sofia over 20-21 May, to meet with representatives from the Balkan Physical Union and the Union of Bulgarian Physicists.
Our Bulgarian colleagues demonstrated impressive levels of activity; with the organisation of various schools, publications and workshops – in spite of their struggles with a very tight context for research and teaching. An extremely low level of funding, falling numbers of physics students and the decreasing emphasis on physics in schools are among their major worries.
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| The National Theatre in Sofia, where the May meeting of the EPS Executive Committee was held. |
Also present at the meeting were the Directors of International Relations from the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the Institute Of Physics (IOP)1; common initiatives for Physics for Development were discussed. Following the example of the IOP, the EPS is planning a campaign to finance specific projects within African countries.
In March 2012 the council will vote for incoming Executive Committee members in a new distribution: by category. In this modified context, four members of the existing Executive Committee will have the possibility to stand for re-election.
The full executive summary is available on MyPhys.
- Amy Flatten, Karl-Heinz Meier and Stuart Palmer, respectively. [↩]
