EMS Handbook: EMS Structure
2.3 Standing committees and their tasks
The role of EMS standing committees is to support the EMS in general in their activities. Each standing committee is assigned a member of the Executive Committee (EC) as a liaison. The liaison is to be invited to every committee meeting and is supposed to participate in the meeting as observer to keep up the communication with the EC. The reports of the committee and possible difficulties in the committee work should be discussed with the liaison officer who will also represent the committee at the EC meeting in case that the chair of the committee is not present.
Each committee shall prepare a report in cooperation with the corresponding liaison person and submit it to the EMS Secretary 11 days before the EC meeting to be included in the EC meeting papers. This report should contain the information on the committee activities and other related business, including information on the committee membership (see Section 2.3.1).
The membership of the EMS standing committees is subject to the following rules (By-laws 24):
- Each member serves a four-year term, with the possibility to extend the service for one more term of four years.
- Each committee chair serves a four-year term, with the possibility to extend the service for one more term of two years.
- Cases in which a member becomes a committee chair are handled individually, with the intention that no one should serve more than eight years in total in whatever role in the same committee.
- Each committee member must be an individual member of the EMS in good standing (By-laws 24), i.e., he/she has paid the membership fees for the years, during which committee service takes place.
2.3.1 Committee renewals procedure
2.3.2 Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations
2.3.8 Mathematics Outreach and Engagement