[Lista-Algas] Announcement

[Ricardo Echenique]

Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE NEW FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETIES (FEPS)



Dear Phycologists,


I am pleased to inform you that the Federation of European Phycological Societies (FEPS) was established on 22 July 2007.  This occurred at the beginning of the 4th European Phycological Congress in Oviedo, Spain.
 
FEPS was established by the signatures of the Presidents, or their delegates, of 7 constituted national Phycological Societies and Algal Groups , namely the Belgian-Dutch, British, German, Greek, Italian, Polish and Spanish.



FEPS welcomes additional national Societies and Groups as members, both throughout Europe and from our adjacent neighbouring states and discussions are in progress in this context.
 
As a European Federation, FEPS has the potential to:
        "provide a forum for all European phycological societies and individuals with an interest in phycology to enable, promote and enhance algal (including cyanobacterial) research, education and other activities, to increase public awareness of the importance of algae and cyanobacteria, and to contribute to public debate and policy issues involving these organisms throughout Europe." (Mission Statement, FEPS Constitution.)
 
Work has begun to form a FEPS website and on the building of activities at the European level. In the meantime, the FEPS Secretary, Elliot Shubert, can be contacted for more information (e.shubert at nhm.ac.uk).  I have been appointed as FEPS President to serve throughout the next 12 months of the "founding phase", as the new Federation consolidates its governance and gets its activities underway.


Geoffrey Codd
                                  President                                  
31 July 2007




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