After opening of the General Assembly by Prof. Gion Calzaferri, a short review over the activities in the past year was
given by Christian Königstein. In March 1998 a very successful 10 th Workshop on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion
"QUANTSOL '98" was held in Badhofgastein in Austria. The Workshop with about 35 participants was organized by
Wolfgang Kautek. The on-line proceedings are available on this home-page. Afterwards, a short
overview over future activities was given:
The European Summer school on Solar Energy in Hirschegg (Austria) that takes place the week after the IPS-12 conference
and is organized by Prof. Peter Würfel (on-line program).
The European Conference on Organic Solar Cells (ECOS'98)
in Cadarache (France) that will take place in December is organized by Dieter Meissner.
The 11th Winterworkshop QUANTSOL '99 will take place in Wildhaus (Switzerland) and is
organized by Jens Gobrecht.
Further acitivities (1999 and 2000) are planed by Claude Levy-Clement, Emond Amouyal and Alex Kokorin.
After the activities overview, Hubert Cachet presented the financial situation which is
healthy. Then, the present Executive Board was released and a new Executive Board was
elected unanimously :
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The new Executive Board:
Das neue Executive Board:
Le nouveau bureau executif: |
Prof. Dr. Mary ARCHER
Cambridge, Great Britain
Dr. Hubert CACHET
Paris, France
Prof. Dr. Gion CALZAFERRI
Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Christian KÖNIGSTEIN
Den Haag, The Netherlands
Prof.Dr. N. Serdar SARICIFTCI
Linz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Tjeerd SCHAAFSMA
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Daniel VANMAEKELBERGH
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Peter WÜRFEL
Karlsruhe, Germany |
The next point on the agenda was to fix the annual membership fee. It was agreed to
use the new EURO as base currency. The membership fees for full members have been
fixed to 15,- Euros and the reduced membership fee (for students etc.) has been fixed to 8,-
Euros. Furthermore, it was agreed that members who are not able to pay their membership
fess can apply for exemption. The decision will then be taken by the President of the Society.
Before the session was closed by Gion Calzaferri, a short discussion arose about the
abbreviation and the logo of our Society. It was decided to held a competition for the logo of
our Society with proposals published on our home-page and the winner to be elected by our
members. The announcement for the competition will follow soon.
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