Hi everybody! With great sorrow I inform you that today, 3 days before the application's deadline, I have no applications or intentions of participation from any of the people I've been keeping contact with for that purpose. For those who are not familiar with the situation, Portugal doesn't have a strong participation in EASA since a couple of years, neither has a good NC organization/structure... I try my best to cover the spot, but considering that I live out of Portugal since 2 years ago (which means loosing personal contacts with new people) and that all I can do is write enthusiastic e-mails to those who contact me, to my friends whom can forward it through their networks, or to student associations who never reply, I can assume that my best will never be good enough for this cause. We need not only participants but a new NC.

So now I found two options to deal with it for the next EASA 2008:

Nr.1: Glorious Option - I seriously need the help of everybody in this! I need all of you to get your Portuguese friends (there must be loads of Portuguese people doing the Erasmus program around the whole Europe) and convince them to take this brilliant opportunity for experiencing EASA... you have only 3 days left to do it, and those who can find me a Portuguese participant will have a surprise reward!!!! There are 4 places left to fill and complete our quota (we have 5 places in total). So 3 days for filling 4 places with 4 portuguese!!!!

Nr.2: Again Lost Country Option - I'll drop the NC duty even without any replacement and I'll ask permission to the Irish organizers to participate somehow, but not representing any country.

My e-mail address is in the NC's list, but just in case you don't want to bother, here it is again rit_mar@hotmail.com.

Let me hear from you. Really hope someone wins the quest!

Love to all, Rita

I have notified tutors of all accepted and declined workshops, if anyone has not received an email about their workshop proposal contact us asap for verification.

NOTE TO ALL NC'S Accepted tutors (51 in total) will send their application forms directly to EASA Ireland (quotas are for participants only) NC's should also be aware that tutors of declined workshops may want to attend as participants and should give them time to send their application forms.

I will confirm the successful workshops on the blog tomorrow afternoon, and there will be information posted on the website in due course.

Ronan

Hi Everybody

In Motovun, we agreed to significantly raise the overall participation fee with the understanding that the tutor fees would be halved.

The motivation for this was that there would be greater competition for tutor places and a higher standard of workshops. This seems to have worked quite well.

We have received more than 50 proposals, and will have to choose approximately 20 workshops.

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work - there are a lot of great ideas and great variety of approaches - we have a very difficult task choosing the best proposals. The majority of proposals are extremely well-developed with well-researched lists of tools, references, graphics, costs and timetables.

It must be said that some people will be disappointed, we promise that we will make sure each proposal will get a fair hearing.

An example of our difficult task is that there are several excellent and ambitious ideas that we unfortunately would not be able to develop - this is disappointing for us.

We had discussions yesterday evening for 4 hours and only got through 15 or so proposals! It will take us a lot of work to narrow our list down to a long-list and finally a short-list.

We will have some sort of decision made in 1 week and will inform potential tutors then. We most likely will have requests for further information for a number of workshops.

Once again, we would like to thank everybody for their fantastic work.

Ronan

Dear NC's,

Please send all participant application forms to participation(at)easa008.ie

Wotcha Ireland! I just wanted to know when the particpation application form will be ready to download from the website? (If it's just me who can't get it apologies, Im not so technologically minded) Cx

Hi everybody,

We are currently working with an Irish governmental agency to secure funding for EASA Ireland 2008, from the European Commission’s Youth in Action program. In order to apply for this grant we are organising an extraordinary workshop of max. 25 participants, the subject of which relates to the aims of the Youth in Action program. There are several regulations we have to abide by, and must have our application ready for the 31st of January.

We need people to apply for this workshop now, we require participants to commit to this and send us on their name, some details and a travel cost estimate.

Participants will be missing out on the opportunity to apply for the variety of workshops at the assembly. If the workshop is feasible and the grant is received, participants will be refunded up to 70% of their travel expenses – this is the incentive to forego the opportunity to apply to another workshop. As part of this experiment, there will be no established tutors for this workshop but there will be a brief.

The brief and a poster will be available as part of a participants pack on the EASA008 website within the next 24/48 hours. Applicants must declare their interest by the end of the 26th of January (next Saturday).

Theme:

There is a movement of people in Europe - individuals and families relocate from country to country, city to city, in pursuit of their version of happiness - be it climate, security, education, society or material wealth. There is a new culture of movement and migration made possible by open borders, market forces and advances in transportation. There is a population constantly in flux – there is a flux culture.

This seminar/thinktank/workshop aims to deal with an issue that effects people all over greater Europe. The effects of Immigration and Emigration on our nation states are well documented, our seminar aims to deal with the effects of this phenomenon on the built environment: our regions, cities, neighbourhoods and buildings, from the point of view of young academics in the fields of architecture and urbanism.

The brief for the competition is now online! go to the new easa | ireland website & check it out!

General Participant Dates....

Application Deadline - Friday 4th April 2008

Re-distribution of places - Friday 18th April 2008

Deadline for Second Round - Friday 25th April 2008

Payment Deadline - Friday 2nd May 2008

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