EAPC Board meets in Stockholm
September 2005 • Stockholm, Sweden

It´s already a good tradition that the EAPC Board meets once a year to discuss all upcoming matters of the Association. Since 2002 the Board meets a year in advance at the site of the EAPC Conference to check local conditions. The traditional dates for the Board Meeting have been changed from January to September to enable a better organization of the annual EAPC Conferences. So this year it was up to Pär Lönegård, the Conference Chair of the EAPC Conference 2007 in Stockholm to host the Board meeting. The agenda was very extensive and therefore the program intense but the EAPC Board may draw a good balance. In the following please find all important results of the meeting:

Vilnius Conference 2006 - “European Culture in Political Campaigning”
The preparations for the upcoming conference in Vilnius are running smoothly. During the next weeks Program Chair, Pär Lönegård and Conference Chair, Rasa Alisauskiene, will present a first detailed program draft as well as hotel and travel information.The conference will take place from May 4 to 6, 2006 in the new Convention Centre of Vilnius.
Thursday, May 4: Masterclass in cooperation with the university of Vilnius
Friday, May 5: 1. Conference Day: Baltic politics, general theme: “Differences in elections between the different European countries” – Comparison of Europe with other continents
Saturday, May 6: 2. Conference Day: Report on campaigns (case studies) as well as new techniques and trends in European campaigns

10 Years of EAPC
The anniversary of the Association will be celebrated with some great activities. Different projects as the development of a special logo for the anniversary year or a solemn gala in the frame of the EAPC Conference are already in organization process and will be presented in more detail in the course of the year. The EAPC membership is also asked to present further ideas or proposals.

Conference Site 2008
A first decision is taken on the conference site for 2008 – Liechtenstein at the invitation of Board member Gerlinde Manz-Christ. Last week Sepp Hartinger and Gerlinde Manz-Christ already met in Vaduz for a first location check and found perfect conditions for an EAPC meeting.

Further activities
The next Board meeting will be held in the course of the IAPC meeting in Berlin where the EAPC will also organize some activities for its membership. In addition a special sales and information counter will be installed in Berlin also selling the annual yearbook for political campaigning “Election Time”.
The next edition of Election Time including all important European campaigns of 2005 will be presented to the public in January.
A new project will be started this fall in cooperation with Helios Media GmbH – The EAPC Certificate for Political Consultants Trainings. The first training seminar will start shortly in Berlin organized by Helios Media GmbH. Updated information will follow in the course of the semester.

For further information about the EAPC Board meeting please contact EAPC Executive Secretary Susanne Hartinger or EAPC President Mehmet Ural.