quota issue

dear organizers and easa community! as we can all see the quota has really become an issue :)
we feel that there are some things very wrong, and hopefully there’s still time to make them work. first of all, we don’t think that there was a consensus reached, and not even a disscussion held, about the quota being in relation to the number of inhabitants or to the number of schools and students per country, we believe that the number of schools REALLY participating in easa should be relevant. cause it is not really logical to let, for example, a country with 147 millions and 47 schools to have the biggest quota when only 2 schools are participating in easa. just as its not logical to let former easa and incm organizers to have a lot more places than the future easa organizer, while the number of schools participating in easa is the same or even bigger (ireland 2 schools, russia 2, hungary 1).
so we think that the model is wrong, community isn’t equal to the numbers provided on posters on incm (which were pretty superficial and inaccurate). the fact that a country is big and has many schools doesn’t say much about easa community in the certain country, there are many big countries that have only one school attending to easa (germany, france, spain…) and there are some small countries that have 2 or more. so, change something. community also has to do with the tradition of attendence, so it can not happen that for example the netherlands has the same quota as new countries liechtenstein or montenegro (whose starting quota should be not more than 4).
we suggest to redistribute places, according to the excell files we had before and to take into consideration only the number of shools from each country that will attend easa.
if not, then at least reconsider our quota and especially irish quota. just imagine how it is to motivate new and young people to organize easa or incm event without beeing able to attend (just remember that your last years quota without competition winners was 17, so its our and irish quota together).
for the end we suggest, if we don’t solve this now, to have it as an important topic at incm croatia.
further more, this travelling exhibition event is new and we should add new activity points for holding the exhibition, because it’s really a lot of work and it promotes easa really well, 2 activity points should do for holding the exhibition (slovenia 3;).
well, this is it, sorry for a long post, but it was really necessary, love from ana and ivan

posted by ivaan
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:20:00 GMT