Académique Documents
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2007-2008
International Board
October 2007
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Introduction ....................................................................................................... 3
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1.2
What we do .............................................................................................. 4
1.3
1.4
1.5
Financial ..................................................................................................... 14
6.1 Current situation .........................................................................................14
6.2 Support programs ........................................................................................14
6.3 Aims to gain ................................................................................................14
Appendices ................................................................................................. 15
7.1 IB contact information ..................................................................................15
7.2 List of acronyms ..........................................................................................16
7.3 List of (P)AS ................................................................................................17
7.4 EUROAVIA sponsors .....................................................................................18
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Introduction
Dear reader,
Welcome to the detailed version of the EUROAVIA Bussiness Plan 2007-2008. This is the
result of the preparation of the International Board during their term as Designated
International Board. On the Electoral Meeting of EUROAVIA Congress in Ankara in March
2007, we were elected and from then on, our main task has been studying on the
EUROAVIA structure to get familiar with it and observating the actions of the IB. By small
contributions and a lot of questions, the DIB prepared itself for writing a BP. After many
DIB meetings, the writing on this BP finally started. Its mainly a mix of ideas growing
out of own experiences with the international level of EUROAVIA, and the issues and
problems we discovered while following the work of our predecessors.
On the congress in Ankara, only 4 DIB members were elected. Since the DIB preferred to
face the coming working year with a larger team, it was decided to have an ExMEAC just
before the AMEAC in Patras to have the posibility to elect a second Executive Member.
We are delighted that there are different candidates for the empty position and are
looking forward to an interesting election and to start working as a completed team.
EUROAVIA is an association connecting its permanent aerospace goals to temporal
student members. Nevertheless, the internationality of our organisation offers us the
possibility to make CONTINUITY a keyword of our actions. Proactively working on
keeping alive the build up experience in our association is ensuring the quality of our
operations! Whether it is by motivation on our internal level within the organisation of
the association, or by promotion on external level in the cooperation with our supporters
and partners.
The members of the International Board 2007-2008 are grateful for the chances our
team gets in leading EUROAVIA through another promising year. We believe that
ensuring the continuity in our actions is the best way to prepare our association for its
coming 50th anniversary. We hope we can count on the full cooperation of many
enthousiastic EUROAVIAns during this Bussiness Year. Finally we would like to thank the
members of the association and our supporters for the trust they give us.
Patras, 4th October 2007,
The International Board of EUROAVIA
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. The thing is,
continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are
absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. The ability to
change constantly and effectively is made easier by high level continuity.
Michael E. Porter, Professor at Harvard Business School
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1.2 What we do
In order to achieve the objectives mentioned above, we organise a lot of activities. The
background of each event is different but the basis is shared; to bring together students
and the aerospace industry, exchange and communicate knowledge and become aware
of the European spirit and its cultures.
The students are the foundation for the existence of EUROAVIA. Their involvement in the
association is voluntary and shows their willingness and ability to operate in an
international environment. Our company partners are the supporters and sponsors of
EUROAVIA, who have great interest in our members as they represent the future
workforce. The knowledge comes in from all different fields of science, from fundamental
physics and mathematics to satellite orbit determination or aircraft safety operations. The
fun evolves naturally from everyones enthusiasm for the subject and the gathering of
different people and cultures.
Activities already begin on local level with regular meetings of an Affiliated Society,
where social cohesion is created and thoughts are exchanged in an informal environment.
They are continued through Fly-Ins, where a group of international students gathers on
technical and social level and makes visits to the aerospace industry in the region of the
organizing Affiliated Society. Finally they extend to the Design Workshop, a three week
event where motivated students from across Europe work together on a technical
scheme.
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are part of a Local Board or not, should feel free to personally contact the International
Board when they have something on their mind. Communication is a major point of
interest for the International Board, which appreciates the activities of the Affiliated
Societies very much and will always be there to assist.
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Jozef De Moor
Donald Riedeberger
Artur Pkalski
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Executive Member
Executive Member
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3 Affiliated Societies
3.1 Existing AS
The communication between the Local Boards and the International Board is one of the
most important things in establishing a constant flow of information throughout the year.
Therefore we would like to encourage the Affiliated Societies once more to contact us
with every question or suggestion that occurs.
Unfortunately there are some of the AS that are in a critical phase. The duty of the IB
consists to force all possible efforts to support the AS with ideas, suggestions and
activities to help where applicable. Our major concern is strengthening the existing AS,
work on their sustainable future and get the decreasing AS back on the right track.
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Jennifer Go
Artur Pekalski
The NEWS as the official, quarterly published magazine of the association has various
tasks. It presents the achievements of the associations working groups, members and
international events towards all members of every local group as well as it represents our
association towards companies on the level of printed publications.
With the change of the cover appearance this year and ongoing layout changes the
magazine will establish a both more structured and appealing, long-lasting appearance.
Being aware of the fact that the workload of producing the NEWS is extensive, the
motivation of new members joining this Working Group is emphasized. While working
directly on the layout and printing is a task best done at the head of the Working Group
in Delft, editorial tasks can be thought of given to motivated and skilled members joining
this international team. Together with this, motivation has to be done within the Affiliated
Societies so every Local Board manages to support its members in delivering articles
about local and international events as well as about their personal goals in technical
achievements. Especially for articles on technical subjects there is a great need to publish
them in the NEWS and through this keep the magazine on a high standard of content.
Daniele Pratali
Donald Riedeberger
Within the Information Technology Working Group some major tasks of the electronic
appearance of EUROAVIA are set. Keeping the international website online and accessible,
updating link references and watching over the attached servers of the association are
the core tasks. As one of the currently ongoing projects the introduction of euroavia.eu
mail addresses and connected accounts has to be mentioned. This project will continue in
this year of business.
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Now that the Central Archive server is located in Delft the Central Archive will be able to
guarantee higher stability of their services and increased data transfer rates to insure
optimum usability of the document exchange function. After a malfunction in the past
year the archiving function has been fully restored.
With the upcoming 50th anniversary of our association the CA PWG has taken up the
task to coordinate the work on the anniversary book. An enthusiastic group of members
have taken up the task.
The user manuals should be finished at the end of the coming year to provide Working
Groups and Affiliated Societies with manuals and advice on how to run their activities.
Last business year the homepage was finished so that there are now already job offers
available. Furthermore an own foundation was settled to give the EYE a legal status
towards companies.
This years goal is to complete the EYE homepage and its offers. There are already many
interested companies and the cooperation between WG and companies is fine.
Diego Vanelli
Donald Riedeberger
Last year the Bylaws were renewed and changed. The main work is done; still there can
be minor adjustments and corrections concerning the Bylaws which will be presented at
latest at EMEAC 2008. At the moment there are no intentions to change the Statutes.
Pedro Raposo
Artur Pekalski
The International Board believes it is a good idea to establish a real working group
around the EAN that provides to our alumni a solid base to organise their working.
Gathering contacts of graduated members, offering a website, organising their call for
support to proposals, It asks a lot of work and too many efforts from alumni already in
their professional life. Having a WG to organise all those things could mean a big leap
forward. A suggestion could be to ask almost graduated members for this WG, and more
concrete Former International Board members, since they in the first place feel the need
to stay into contact with their EUROAVIA friends.
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5 International Events
EUROAVIA is an association that is widely spread over the European continent. The
international events whether they are part of the organizational, the educational or the
intercultural exchange are the very heart of the experience every individual member of
the association can gain.
5.1 Congresses
IB responsible:
Donald Riedeberger
The congresses of EUROAVIA are the core values of exchange between all members of
the association on official level. A high participation through as much Affiliated Societies
as possible is therefore an essential base.
In the past Business Year major improvements to the minute-taking procedure have
been made. The current IB will follow up with the way of preparing concentrated and
structured minutes. Together with this the clear procedures of applying for Congress
participation will be continued as developed in the years before. Please see also chapter
8 for more information.
Iva Hrgovan
Jozef De Moor
The Formation Workshop 2007 in Zagreb that will take place between December 2nd and
9th of the current Business Year has the aim to ensure the constant goals of this
association: keep the European spirit alive and make work within the IB, WG and AS
more efficient and professional.
Therefore, the reached goals of former workshops will be taken as a base. Like in the
congresses a high participation of members that are active on international or local level
of the association is essential to make this week of workshops a successful event. The
International Board therefore promotes this event actively.
It is another goal of the International Board to keep the level of the Formation Workshop
high and to deliver a successor for the 2008 version of the workshop early enough.
to be announced
Jozef De Moor
After the success of the Design Workshop 2007 at the University Sheffield, United
Kingdom, from July 14th to August 4th hosted together with Rolls Royce the
International Board wants to continue in the line of this outstanding event of the
association with a 2008 version.
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Therefore, a new Working Group will be set up in the beginning of the Business Year
2007-2008 and an accompanied host will be found. The time plan is set to have the
Design Workshop in the fourth quarter of the Business Year.
Vitor Correia
Andrea Mnzing
The Air Cargo Challenge organised by the Affiliated Society Lisboa has become one of the
highly participated events of the association. Bringing together young students from
various European universities to compete on the core engineering task of designing an
aircraft the Air Cargo Challenge has the potential of becoming a long lasting value within
the association.
The International Board will assure to support all efforts of AS Lisboa and every other
Affiliated Society to bring this event on an international scale in long term. The ways of
making use of the potential of the whole association from the very beginning and of
creating continuity in the Air Cargo Challenge will be evaluated during the business year
and the open forums on the congresses.
5.5 Fly-In
IB responsible:
The participation in an international event with members from all over Europe is one of
the intense experiences in EUROAVIA. Having the possibility to show their home city,
university, company contacts and lifestyle to all interested members of the association it
is a unique possibility to present an Affiliated Society. Therefore the International Board
will continue to motivate every Affiliated Society to host such an event during the next
year. Especially for (P)AS that have to host their first international event, as well as for
long lasting Affiliated Societies it is a good way to reassemble the motivated members of
a local board in organizing the event and together with this bring back the European
spirit.
5.6 Symposia
IB responsible:
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As a newly developed way of international event within the association over the last
years a Cultural Exchange is a less formal, less work intense way of bringing the
members of two or more Affiliated Societies into an exchange.
A collection of the most important things to look after in organising will tried to be
assembled with the help of the hosts of former successful CE and made available to all
AS willing to arrange an exchange.
Bernd Bewer
Donald Riedeberger
During the Business Year the association will be present at the Berlin Air Show from May
27th to June 1st 2008. After the success of the presence at the Salon du Bourget 2007
the International Board will put its efforts in presenting the association in an appropriate
level in Berlin too. Aim of the presence in Berlin will be to get in contact with already
established and new company contacts and to make the association more known within
companies, universities and students.
Concerning the other important Air Shows within Europe (FIA in Farnborough, MAKS in
Moskwa) the International Board will continue to motivate members to visit these shows
as individuals and to represent their Affiliated Societies as well.
To arrange the needful things around an individual stand and presence on the Berlin Air
Show the International Board decided to forward the idea of an Air Show Working Group
that will take care of building up the stand, occupy it, coordinate all present members
and spread helpful news. The group will coordinate the application, the stand and the
representatives who will occupy the stand. Furthermore it will look for accommodation
and an evening program for all EUROAVIAns present at the Air Show. All this information
will be made available on a website that will also be made by this group.
Donald Riedeberger
In 2009 EUROAVIA will have its 50th anniversary. Therefore it is planned to produce a
50 Years of EUROAVIA book to show how our association has developed from the
beginning on till today. Furthermore a lustrum for EUROAVIA members and supporting
contacts is planned, most probably during the EMEAC 2009.
It is very important to start early with the organization of such an event. Thus the
current IB knows about its responsibility and will put its efforts in finishing the book and
looking for a possible host for the jubilee event. Since the congress hosting, the lustrum
organising and the making of the book are different initiatives concerning the same 50th
Anniversary, the whole coordination will be done by the IB.
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6 Financial
To keep EUROAVIA as well-build association it requires a healthy financial situation.
Therefore, it will be one of the main goals for the International Board 2007-2008 to
assure the financial status. Our association is a non-profit organization so all income will
be used for proper functioning. The Financial Plan is made to provide guidelines for the IB
within the next business year and it can not be separated from the Business Plan.
Moreover, the bookkeeping will be held at least at the same level as it was during the
former business year as continuity in this topic is important both for this IB and for our
successors.
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7 Appendices
7.1 IB contact information
Kasteel Beyaerdstraat 60
1120 Brussel
Belgium
Jaworznia 6 A
26-065 Piekoszw
Poland
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EUROAVIA
Affiliated Society
Prospective Affiliated Society
Possible Prospective Affiliated Society
IB
DIB
FIB
LB
EM
ICM
IEM
International Board
Designated International Board
Former International Board
Local Board
Executive Member
International Contact Member
International Editor Member
BM
BY
BP
FP
BR
FR
FSP
TSP
Business Meeting
Business Year
Business Plan
Financial Plan
Business Report
Financial Report
Financial Support Program
Travel Support Program
AMEAC
EMEAC
ExMEAC
FoWo
DeWo
ACC
CE
PWG
WG
EYE
CA
IT
EAN
S&B
AC
SM
Associated Company
Supporting Member
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Affiliated Society
Country
IB Responsible
AAC
ANK
ATH
BEG
BRS
BRE
BUC
BUD
DFT
DRE
HAM
HEL
IST
KYI
LEU
LIS
LON
MAD
MIL
MUN
NAP
PAL
PAR
PAT
PIS
RZS
STG
TER
TOR
TOU
WAR
ZAG
Aachen
Ankara
NTUA Athens
Beograd
Braunschweig
Bremen
Bucuresti
Budapest
Delft
Dresden
Hamburg
Helsinki
Istanbul
Kyiv
Leuven
Lisboa
London (PAS)
Madrid
Milano
Mnchen
Napoli
Palermo (PAS)
Paris
Patras
Pisa
Rzeszw
Stuttgart
Terrassa Barcelona (PAS)
Torino
Toulouse
Warszawa
Zagreb
Germany
Turkey
Greece
Serbia
Germany
Germany
Romania
Hungary
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Finland
Turkey
Ukraine
Belgium
Portugal
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Germany
Italy
Italy
France
Greece
Italy
Poland
Germany
Spain
Italy
France
Poland
Croatia
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Andrea Mnzing
Sebastian Rothammel
Sebastian Rothammel
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