Dear Members,

The ISCA 2009 General Assembly is held the 24 October in connection with the open Congress “MOVE2009 World Congress on Active Cities: Sport, Health and Citizenship”.

With this information we would like to give you a summary of the important information about ISCA 2009 General Assembly. All details of the ISCA General Assembly 2009 can be found at www.isca-web.org/GA2009

It is our sincere hope that many members will join both the General Assembly and the MOVE2009 Congress. Please also consider inviting your collaborating partners, municipality representatives, organisational partners and contacts to join the MOVE2009 Congress. The topic “Active Cities – sport, health and citizenship”, will be of interest for many different stakeholders. Registration to both ISCA General Assembly and MOVE2009 Congress should be done online at www.MOVE2009.org

Overview over MOVE2009 Congress and ISCA General Assembly 2009
   @ Wednesday 21 October - Opening of the MOVE2009 Congress Copenhagen City Hall
   @ Thursday 22 October - MOVE2009 Congress
   @ Friday 23 October- MOVE2009 Congress
   @ Saturday 24 October – ISCA General Assembly and MOVE Congress excursions

General Assembly programme and agenda
The General Assembly agenda and program gives an overview over the General Assembly. Please note that any ISCA member can propose points for the agenda. In case you would like to propose points to the agenda, please send your proposals to the ISCA President.

Election and Nomination of Vice President and Executive Committee members
At the 2009 General Assembly there will be election of one vice president and three members of the Executive Committee.

Nominations
Due to the ISCA Statutes nominations should be announced to the President six weeks before General Assembly (12 September). The President should forward received nominations to members and delegates 4 weeks before the General Assembly (26 September).
Please note that any ISCA member can nominate candidates.

Elections
The following Executive Committee members’ election period ends and therefore stand for election in 2009:

Vice president :
   @ Herbert Hartmann, Deustcher Turnerbund, Germany

Executive Committee members (in order of longest serving):
   @ Sæmundur Runolfsson, Ungmennafelag UMFI, Iceland
   @ Jaap Bisschop, National Sport Alliance, the Netherlands
   @ Liliana Ortiz de La Cruz, Fundacion pro Deporte y Recreacion Para Todos, Colombia

Proposal for two-years elections periods – Statutes change
The Executive Committee proposes that the elections period of President, Vice Presidents and Executive Committee members is changed to two years.
When ISCA was founded it was decided to have four years election periods. There was a need for political stability to ensure a good start of the international organisation. However the Executive Committee propose this is changes to two year election periods. You can find the full proposal and motivation at the ISCA website.

Foundation of ISCA Europe – Nomination of chair and steering group
ISCA general assembly 2008 decided to re-structure the ISCA European Continental cooperation. The aim is to establish the best fitting working, meeting, and communication structure for ISCA Europe - Europe here defined as a pan-European geographical area. The Executive Committee proposes a structure, where ISCA Europe will be governed by a steering group of three persons; one chair and two steering group members.
The ISCA Europe chair and two steering group members will be elected at the General Assembly 2009 among the European members.
Nominations for ISCA Europe chair and nominations for steering group member can be forwarded to ISCA President until the General Assembly, however to have an open process we would like to receive nominations at latest two three weeks before the General Assembly

We welcome you and your collaborating partners to the ISCA General Assembly and MOVE2009 Congress.

Kindest regards,

Mogens Kirkeby, President
Elizabeth Paoliello, Vice President
Herbert Hartmann, Vice President