ICSW Europe General Assembly 2022
2022 General Assembly (GA) took place in Malaga, Spain in the Faculty of Social and Labour Studies of the University of Malaga on 2 December 2022. The venue of the GA was offered to ICSW Europe by the University of Malaga represented by Antonio López Peláez. Those members who could not come in person could join the meeting online via ZOOM platform.
Eleven members of ICSW Europe took part in the meeting. It was a great honour that Dr. Sang-Mok Suh, Global President of ICSW, accepted the invitation and spoke personally at the GA. In his address, he expressed his gratitude for the possibility to meet ICSW Europe participants of the GA in person as the last year activities were hold mostly online thanks to the situation with Covid-19. He said that he hoped that European region would be active in organising such events as the Congress in Malaga in the future just as it used to be in the past.
The agenda of the GA:
- Opening, Approval of the Agenda, Checking of Voting Rights (paid-up members)
- The address of ICSW President – Dr. Sang-Mok Suh
- Approval of the Minutes of the GA held online (ZOOM), 20 January 2022
- Election of ICSW Europe Board members 2022-2024, (for approval and decision) – results of electronic voting (E-mail sent on 24 October 2022)
- Presentation of ICSW Europe Annual Activity Report 2021 (for the records), 2022 (for discussion and approval)
- Report of 2021 from the Treasurer (for adoption and discharging of responsibility, after the auditors have made their comments)
- Statement by Auditors for 2021 accounts (for approval and decision)
- Election of Auditors and Election Committee members (2 year terms)
- Updating of the Budget for 2022 and Budget for 2023
- Any Other Matters Arising
- Closing the General Assembly
Three new Board members were confirmed by the Election Committee for the position of ICSW Europe Board members (after previous electronic voting): Jukka Petteri Haapakoski (Finland), Alina Petrauskiené (Lithuania) and Monika Wabrowetz (Germany).
ICSW Europe Annual Activity Report was presented by the President of ICSW Europe, Ronald Wiman, of the period of 2021 (for the records) and 2022 (for discussion and approval). In his report, Ronald Wiman focused on mission, joint global programme, membership, knowledge creation, events and conferences in 2022, information dissemination, networking and influencing policies, management of ICSW Europe and regional elections 2022.
Ronald Wiman as outgoing President, characterized the years in ICSW Europe Board as extremely nice and useful. He thanked all ICSW Europe members for their fruitful cooperation and the Board with that he cooperated the closest. He congratulated a new ICSW Europe President, Max Rubisch and the members of a new Board and wished them good luck at their work.