r8 committee meeting venice, 25-26 april 2009 prof. jozef modelski region 8 spring committee meeting...

R8 Committee Meeting VENICE, 25-26 April 2009 Prof. Jozef Modelski

Region 8 Region 8 Spring Committee MeetingSpring Committee Meeting

VENICE, 25-26 April 2009VENICE, 25-26 April 2009

R8 Director Jozef Modelski, IEEE Fellow


MY MY MOTTO:MOTTO:

Activities of local chapters and student branches

are the most important key to membership growth,

improvement of Institute image and realisation of globalisation process


Region 8 Committee at Sections Congress, Quebec, September 2008


Region 8Region 8 - facts- facts

Members 69.04969.049(Jan 2009)

Sections 5656 basically compatible with countries, exceptions: Russia and

Saudi Arabia different history, traditions, size big mosaic of cultures and technical backgrounds

Chapters 448448(April 2009)

Student Branches 305305(April 2009)


CongratulationsCongratulations

to 63 newly elevated63 newly elevated

FellowsFellows

• The most telling evidence behind our Region’s achievements and its high status in the Institute

• I would like to strongly encourage our younger members to follow those prominent examples

Austria Section Helmut Rott Benelux Section Cor Claeys Piet Demeester Jean-Pierre Hermand Jose Pineda-De-

Gyvez Sabine Van Huffel Denmark

Section Ramjee Prasad France Section Jean-Pierre Berenger Claude Berrou Lucian Dascalescu Raymond Quere Finland Section Jorma Nieminen Niilo Saranummi Greece Section Nicholas

Hatziargyriou Nicholas Sidiropoulos

Germany

Section Georg Boeck Aleksander Braginski Manfred Depenbrock Gerhard Fettweis Wolfgang Heinrich Uwe Helmke Arne Jacob Ludger Klinkenbusch Rudolf Koch Ralf Koetter Klaus Petermann Peter Vary Wolfram Wellssow Hans-Joachim

Wunderlich Kuwait Section Mohsen Guizani Israel Section Ron Kimmel

Italy Section Roberto Battiti Pasquale Daponte Paolo Fiorini Andrea Lacaita Matteo Pastorino Dario Petri Sebastiano Serpico Enrico Zanoni Qatar Section Mohamed Alouini Russia (Siberia)

Section Nikolai Voropai Spain Section Francisco Ares Juan Martin-Sanchez Switzerland

Section Helmut Boelcskei Dragan Damjanovic Jean-Pierre Hubaux Peter Steimer

Turkey Section Levent Gurel Levent Sevgi

UK & RI Section Bashir Al-Hashimi Alessandro Astolfi Sheng Chen Alan Clements Rodney Coates Martin Dawson Orla Feely Nicholas Jennings Emil Levi Wayne Luk Steve Young Zi-Qiang Zhu Ukraine Section Konstantin Lukin Felix Yanovsky


CongratulationsCongratulations

to Maurice PapoMaurice Papo

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award (given for outstanding service to IEEE)

to Kurt RichterKurt Richter

IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing

Education

to Adrian PaisAdrian Pais

IEEE MGA GOLD Achievement Award

to Ahmed Osama MikkawiAhmed Osama Mikkawi

IEEE MGA Achievement Award


2009 - a noteworthy year2009 - a noteworthy year

IEEE 125th AnniversaryIEEE 125th Anniversary many celebrations in Region 8

50th Anniversary of our Sections50th Anniversary of our Sections (approved May 13, 1959)

- Benelux Section - Italy Section


My main aims My main aims

On the Region level

building friendly atmosphere within the Region increasing the number of young engineers from the industry encouraging Chapters and Student Branches to enhance their activity intensification of technical activities by the Region (over 40% of members do not belong to any Society) continuation of all our best practices

On the IEEE Board level

intensify the process of transnationalizing, enhacing IEEE globalization increase the number of Region 8 representatives in the compositions of various Committees


General Assumptions for Financial Policy General Assumptions for Financial Policy

due to global economic crisis and decrease in IEEE financial reserves, introduction of new strategy of economizing is required

stronger financial support on concrete projects rather than meetings for meetings sake

introducing guidelines to optimize travel expenditures

face-to-face SubCommittee meetings to be held max. twice/year, joint with R8 Commmittee meeting regular teleconferences are strongly recommended


2009 Coordinators/Representatives2009 Coordinators/Representatives Awards&Recognition Victor Fouad Hanna (France) Industry Relations Benito Palumbo (Italy) Life Members & History Activities Jacob Baal Schem (Israel) R8News Roland Saam (UKRI) Standards David Law (UKRI) Student Representative Pablo Herrero (Spain/Germany) VCF Christine Nora (France)

Chapters Peter Magyar (Germany) Conference Marian Kaźmierkowski (Poland) Educational Activities Joao Costa Freire (Portugal) Electronic Communications Giorgios Mixail (Cyprus) GOLD Joao Figueiras (Denmark) Membership Development Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia) Professional Activities Emine Aydal (UKRI) Women in Engineering Shaimaa Yehia (Egypt)


2009 SubCommittees2009 SubCommittees Awards & Recognitions SubCommittee (A&RSC) Nominations & Appointments SubCommittee (N&ASC) Strategic Planning SubCommittee (SPSC) GOLD Subcommittee Membership Development SubCommittee (MDSC) Chapter Coordination SubCommittee (CCSC) Conference Coordination SubCommittee (ConSC)

Educational Activities SubCommittee (EASC) Industry Relations SubCommittee (IRSC) Student Activites SubCommittee (SASC) Professional Activities SubCommitte (PASC) Operations Review SubCommittee (ORSC)


Past Directors CouncilPast Directors Council

Kurt Richter 1991-1992

Charles Turner 1993-1994

Maurice Papo 1997-1998 Rolf Remshardt 1999-2000 Levent Onural 2001-2002

Tony Davies 2003-2004

Baldomir Zajc 2005-2006

Jean-Gabriel Remy 2007-2008


OpCom meeting in QatarOpCom meeting in Qatar Doha, Qatar, 24-26th January

Summary of 2008 and emerging problems Goals, tasks and plans for 2009 and

beyond Meeting with Qatar Section officers

(Chapters, Student Branches) Technical meetings with Qatar

engineering community (Industry and Universities)

Visit to Qatar Petroleum - Dukhan Oil and Gas


OpCom meeting in QatarOpCom meeting in Qatar Doha, Qatar, 24-26th January

Special thanks to Qatar Section officersSpecial thanks to Qatar Section officers for the excellent preparation of the OpCom visit


Region 10 Meeting Region 10 Meeting Hanoi, 28th Feb -1st March 2009

At Region’s 10 invitation R8 Director participated and gave presentation on the Best Practices in Region 8

Regions 8 and 10 are the largest in the IEEE with about 38% of the total membership; they share many similar problems, activities and initiatives. Some common problems and future plans were discussed

R10 Director is invited to attend the R8 Fall Committee Meeting in Lisbon


IEEE Gulf Countries Council (GCC) ConferenceIEEE Gulf Countries Council (GCC) Conference Kuwait, 17-19th March 2009

main annual conference in the Middle East (previously all were held in Bahrain)

about 400 attendees its prestige was also confirmed by the participation

of the Kuwait Prime Minister and the country’s government

particularly active were the WIE Affinity Groups

Congratulations to the Organisers

and Gulf Countries Sections


Main R8 ConferencesMain R8 Conferences

EuroCon 2009 Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 18-23 May 2009

EuroCon 2011 Lisbon, Portugal, September 2011

EuroCon 2013 Zagreb, Croatia

AfriCon 2009 Nairobi, Kenya, 23-25 September 2009

MeleCon 2010 Valletta, Malta, 26-28 April 2010

SibirCon 2010 Irkutsk, Russia (Siberia), July 2010

EnergyCon 2010 Manama, Bahrain,18-20 December 2010

AfriCon 2011 Zambia / Ghana ??

MeleCon 2012 Tunesia / Cyprus / Italy ??


Main Student Congresses / Main Student Congresses / ConConferencesferences

Middle East Student Branch Congress Amman, Jordan, 11-14th May 2009

International Youth Conference on Energetics Budapest, Hungary, 4-6th June 2009

SBC 2010

Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress

in in 20092009


Other events in 2009Other events in 2009 about 300 local technical conferences and

workshops organized or supported by Sections and Chapters

several leading Societies conferences organized with the help of local Chapters and Sections

4 Chapter Chairs meetings (jointly organized with leading Societies in R8)

many local celebrations of the IEEE 125th Anniversary


R8 Committee Meeting formatR8 Committee Meeting format

More interactive sessions

Less number of reports, all reports much earlier put on the Venice web page

Caucus Session

Meetings of all R8 Subcommittees

Workshops / Tutorials


Special thanksSpecial thanks

Special thanks should go to the Host - Italy Section, OpCom members, Coordinators and Section Chairs for the enormous contribution into the arrangements of the meeting,

particularly to:

Costas StasopoulosCostas Stasopoulos – R8 Secretary

Silvano DonatiSilvano Donati – Italy Section Chair

Brian HarringtonBrian Harrington – R8 Treasurer


I wish to thank I wish to thank all those who have given me all those who have given me

their support, help and advice their support, help and advice during this difficult period during this difficult period

of transition in Region 8of transition in Region 8

THANK YOU !THANK YOU !KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

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