Annual Meeting and Members Meeting in Rome



Members’ and Candidate members’ meeting in Vienna on March 25-26, 2010
The main topic on the agenda of Fertility Europe will be sharing experiences. For years now we are exchanging ideas and tools for more public awareness, fundraising in new and effective ways, media events, fertility fairs, days, tours, books, posters, questionnaires or other events. These help you to address even more of your target group, people trying to overcome difficulties in conceiving. We are also partners of respected organisations or politicians. We – as one of the few – also concentrate on prevention and risks, ethical issues and international topics. Come and find for yourself the vast number of ideas your organisation can profit from! Become a part of the strong chain of organisations within Fertility Europe and bring more quality and international aspects to your valuable work:

Details of the agenda can be found here. As a candidate member you are also be invited to present your organisation during this meeting.

For your agendas: The presentation of the Candidate members to the Executive Commettee of Fertility Europe will take place at 15.00 on March 25, 2010, the members are expected to start their meeting at 17.00 on the same day. The programme will finish at 17.00 on March 26, 2010.

We are very pleased to inform you that the travel expences both to and from Vienna plus one night stay in the InterCity Hotel Wien at Mariahilfer Strasse 122/Ecke Kaiserstrasse, (see www.intercityhotel.com) will be reimbursed for Fertility Europe full members as well as Candidate members (the number of participants is however limited to maximum of 25 participants) thanks to the support from our partner organisation ESHRE.

What to do to join us in Vienna?

1/ If your organisation is a member of Fertility Europe, memberlist (click to http://www.fertilityeurope.eu/index.php?fe=members) Send a mail by January 30, 2010 with the name of your organisation and the name and e-mail address of the person who will represent your organisation to membership@fertilityeurope.eu. You will receive details about the Vienna meeting in return.

2/ If your organisation is not yet a member but wants to become a member, it will be considered a Candidate member in case if does the following:
Send an e-mail by January 30, 2010 with the name of your organisation, stating that your organisation is a candidate member, and the name and e-mail address of the person who will represent your organisation to membership@fertilityeurope.eu. You will receive details about the Vienna meeting later.

Important for Candidate members:
Please, make sure that you also – as a Candidate member:
Have your questionnaire about your organisation and the regulations in your country filled on our website. Please click (www.fertilityeurope.eu/index.php?fe=faq). When you’re done, simply click submit.
Have sent the scanned copies of the following documents to: membership@fertilityeurope.eu (The subject of your e-mail should be Membership Documents, thank you)

Statutes of your organisation
Financial Report of the organisation (2008 or 2009)
Annual Report of the organisation (2008 or 2009) Please, note that all these documents can be in your own language, there is no need to translate them to English as for now.

Comment nous joindre a la réunion de membres de Fertility Europe a Vienne en mars?

- Premiere réunion Européenne de membres de Fertility Europe a Vienne 25-26/3 2010
- Frais de voyage + 1 nuit d'hôtel a Vienne remboursé pour les membres et membres-candidats de Fertility Europe
- Si votre association est intéressé de nous joindre a Vienne en mars, envoyez-nous un message a membership@fertilityeurope.eu
- Comment devenir membre-candidat en fonction de faire parti de la réunion en Vienne?
- Vous remplissez notre enquete concernant votre association avant 31/1 2010. Vous trouverez cette enquete ici :
http://www.freya.nl/web_enquetes/eia.php Apres l'avoir remplie, vous appuyez sur "submit"
- vous envoyez avant 31/1/2010 a membership@fertilityeurope.eu une copie (pdf ou scanné) des documents suivants de votre association (traduction pas nécessaire):
Statues de votre association
Rapport financier de l’association (2008 ou 2009)
Rapport annuel de l’association (2008 ou 2009)

After the Vienna meeting the Eecutive Committee of Fertility Europe will consider all applications and you will hear from us as soon as possible after sumbiting the e-mail and necessary documents.

We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Our first General Meeting in Amsterdam

The Executive Committee of Fertility Europe with members of WG MORE, COME and PROF are having their meeting in Brussels on November 27 and 28, 2009. Please, find enclosed the Agenda of your meeting.

Please note in your agendas the following date of the Meeting of representatives of the Member Associations of Fertility Europe with some of the potential members. It is going to take place in Vienna on Thursday and Friday March 25 and 26, 2010, on the occasion of the First international Congress on Global reproductive Tourism. Please, visit us again for more information on the Agenda and those you can meet there.

The General Meeting in Amsterdam was the first important meeting of the newly established Fertility Europe. What first was a dream is now a reality. We have an association, which came to exist due to the common needs and co-operation of leaders of various European patient associations and charities involved with fertility and related issues. Amsterdam was the very first meeting, where in accordance with our Statutes, the new Executive Committee was elected and later on those elected held a couple of meetings to formalise the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. We are now pleased to let you know that the following people were elected:

Chair – Clare Lewis-Jones
Vice-Chair – Denisa Priadková
Secretary – Annalisa Malfatti
Treasurer – Conrad Engler
and José van der Schoor-Knijnenburg is the important fifth board member!



We also discussed our plans for 2009 and 2010 and created new working groups with important tasks and attractive futures. They are currently established in line with the priorities of Fertility Europe as follows:
WG 1: MORE (Membership, Outreach, Representativeness)
Members: Conrad Engler, Randi Ramnefjell, Satu Rautakallio-Hokkanen
WG 2: GOVE (Governance)
Members: Filomena Gallo, Peter Priadka, Annalisa Malfatti
WG 3: COMM (Communication)
Members: Denisa Priadková, José van der Schoor-Knijnenburg
WG 4: PROF (Projects and Fundraising)
Members: Ofra Balaban Kasztelanski and Clare Brown, Conrad Engler

More information on specific issues, especially elections, membership, but also the working groups are available below. We are looking forward to your input and please, feel free to e-mail us at info@fertilityeurope.eu or share your views and ideas on our Forum.

Please visit www.fertilityeurope.eu regularly!
Best regards,
Executive Committee

1. Foundation of Fertility Europe
2. Key Goals
3. Founding board
4. Membership
5. Please pay your membership fee
6. Elections
7. Financing Fertility Europe
8. Partnership with ESHRE
9. Next Meeting
10. Join one of the Working Groups