The 2016 yearly meeting of ESIN was an intensive and fruitful one. Starting with a Board meeting on Monday 26th, it was followed by a conference on the sustainability of the small islands at the EESC building on Tuesday 27th, and ended with an Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 28th.
Here are the presentations from the Sustainability Conference on the 27th:
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Here are the Minutes, the Accounts, the Auditors report from the AGM on the 28th
Here is the Press Release in English, Estonian, Greek and Italian:
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Representatives for 1,600 small islands from 11 European nations elected Camille Dressler from Eigg island, Scotland, as chairwoman of the European Small Islands Federation (ESIN). She succeeds Bengt Almkvist from Sweden, who is the founder of the organisation and has been the chairman for 15 years. Bengt was warmly thanked for his great work by the island organisations of ESIN.
The organisation’s vice presidents are Elefterios Kechagioglou (Greece) and John Walsh (Ireland) and Christian Pleijel from Kokar island, Aland, was appointed General Secretary.
A working plan was adopted and it was decided that next years AGM will be held on Orkney (hence the new header on this homepage).
Minutes, protocols and documents to be published here, soon.
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Registration ESIN members AGM 2016
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