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by Christoph Raudonat, Director of European Society of Association Executives ( ESAE)
Change of perception. For a long time, associations have been the repository of information on best practice, common grounds for ideas and influencing professional bodies to advance civil society interaction with decision makers and society at large. Associations’ agendas are formulated and directed by their members and members’ needs. Despite a prevailing sentiment that this may have changed, it isn’t so.
The current perception is that while associations attempt to adapt to a more client-oriented approach in order to counteract drops in membership, looking at their members as customers, we cannot forget that it should indeed be exactly these customers that steer the strategic direction of associations.
How did this change of perception arrive?
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| | | | | Pioneers of change
EAS 2015. The European Association Summit (EAS) in Brussels from 5 to 7 May 2015 is open for registration. This year’s focus will be on how associations can be “pioneers of change” within society.
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Brussels. The UIA Round Table Europe 2015 will take place on 13 November at the Crowne Plaza Brussels. The UIA Associations Round Table is an opportunity to learn through networking and through practice. Please join us!
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| | | | | Invitation to IMEX
Association Day. UIA and IMEX, the international meetings show, are inviting association executives to join the IMEX Association Day 2015 on 18 May at the Kap Europa Congress Centre, Frankfurt. For registration, please click here: from Europe, from Asia.
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| | | | | | Open calendar
Free service. The Open Calendar is a free service of the Union of International Associations' subscription-based International Congress Calendar Online (ICCO) with more than 350,000 meetings. Its open version includes 7,000 international meetings.
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| |  | | | | | Cécile Mairaville, Congress Director, Paris Convention Bureau
Did you know, that ...?
+ Paris is a small city: it can be crossed by foot in less than 2 hours!
+ 1,055 congresses were hosted in Paris in 2013?
+ The British were the first “frog eaters” before the French! It has been scientifically proved!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | "Promote a global vision of European clinical research as a dynamic economic sector" |
Yoani Matsakis, Conference Chair of the EUCROF Conference 2015, Board member of AFCROs (French Clinical Research Association)
Your 2nd European Conference on Clinical Research has just kicked off. Why did you choose the theme: “Regulations, technologies, risk management, data sources, patients' role ... Will reality match expectations?”
The new EU Clinical Trials Regulation will come into effect in 2016. The European Agency has also released a reflexion paper on risk based approach quality management. New perspectives for clinical research in children are also emerging and patients become actors...
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| | | | | | Important conferences | | | | European Association Summit | | 5-7/5/2015 Brussels | | More |
| |  | | | UIA RT Europe | | 13/11/2015 Brussels | | More |
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| Important shows | | | | Meetings Africa | | 23-25/2/2015 Johannesburg | | More |
| | | | | IMEX | | 19-21/5/2015 Frankfurt | | More |
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Languages. Almost 90% of the people holding key positions in international associations speak English, according to this year’s edition of the Yearbook of International Organizations, Volume 6, followed by almost 53% speaking French and 27% speaking German.
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