4 Board Trustees' positions are open for election or re-election in 2024. Find out how to submit your candidature to influence the future of our network here.
We invite each Full member interested in taking an active part in Ecsite to send its candidature before midnight CET 17 March 2024 by email to info@ecsite.eu for the attention of the President.
1. What does the Ecsite Board of Trustees decide?
2. What could being a Board Trustee mean for you and your institution?
3. Which positions are open in 2024?
4. How to submit your candidature for the Board of Trustees of Ecsite
5. Composition of the current Ecsite Board 2023-2024
1. What do the Ecsite President and Ecsite Board of Trustees decide?
The Ecsite Board is composed of 14 members. The composition of the current Board can be found here.
The Ecsite Board meets virtually or in-person at least 3 times a year. Ecsite's Internal Regulations describe the duties of the Board members and of the President.
The decisions taken by the Ecsite Board define our network's future - they are the driving force behind crucial frameworks that underscore everything Ecsite does, oversee all of Ecsite's activities, financial sustainability and strategic objectives. By extension, the future of European science engagement as a whole is influenced by the decisions reached by our Board.
2. What could being Ecsite President or a Board Trustee mean for you and your institution?
Being Ecsite President or on the Board of Trustees will allow you to gain experience of decision-making at a European level; make valuable professional connections; and ensure your opinions shape Ecsite's activities and positions on the most important contemporary issues.
Representing your institution by being Ecsite President or a Board Trustee also means your institution has a place at the top table of European science engagement - your institution's brand is seen by a wide audience of science engagement professionals from across Europe and beyond, and allows your intitution to gain prestige as an important member of the European science engagement community.
3. Which positions are open in 2024?
Four Board Trustees’ positions are open this year.
4. How to submit your candidature for the Board of Trustees
Candidates for the position of Board Trustee need to represent an organisation that is a Full member of Ecsite in 2024.
The duration of the mandate of a Trustee is 2 years, renewable twice, for a maximum of 3 terms (six consecutive years).
The candidature should consist of one document of maximum 5 pages, in Word or PDF, on the letterhead of the organisation, written in English, less than 1 Megabyte and sent to info@ecsite.eu for the attention of the President.
It must include:
- Name of the organisation, city and country
- Description of the organisation
- Name of the candidate, position and short Curriculum vitae
- Motivation for the organisation and its representative to become an Ecsite Board Trustee
5. Composition of the current Ecsite Board 2023-2024
In 2024, Four Board Trustees positions are open (positions 3,5,6,7).
| Organisation | Term | Year Elected | AGM 2024 Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| 1 |
Universcience, France Represented by Bruno Maquart, Chairman and CEO |
Presidency Second Term |
2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 2 |
Universum®, Germany Represented by Herbert Münder, General Manager |
Past Presidency | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 3 |
Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Represented by Maria João Fonseca, Interim Executive Coordinator, Head of Communication and Director of the Hall of Biodiversity |
Vice-President 2nd Term |
2022 |
Term running until 2024 Eligible for re-election |
| 4 |
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, The Netherlands Represented by Amito Haarhuis, Director |
Treasurer 3rd Term |
2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 5 |
Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias, Spain Represented by Miriam Atienza Fernández, Content Manager |
1st Term | 2022 |
Term running until 2024 Eligible for re-election |
| 6 |
Natural History Museum of Toulouse, France Represented by Francis Duranthon, Museum Director |
2nd | 2022 |
Term running until 2024 Eligible for re-election |
| 7 |
NOESIS, Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum, Greece Represented by Thanassis Kontonikolaou, General Manager |
3rd | 2022 |
End of 3 terms, not eligible for re-election |
| 8 |
ESO European Southern Observatory, Germany Represented by Tania Johnston, Head of ESO Supernova |
1st | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 9 |
Hidrodoe Represented by Hilde De Laet, Manager |
1st | 2023 | Term running until 2025 |
| 10 |
The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom Represented by Alex Burch, Director of Public Programmes |
2nd | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 11 |
Psiquadro scarl, Italy Represented by Leonardo Alfonsi, Director |
3rd | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 12 |
Stiftung Neanderthal Museum, Germany Represented by Baerbel Auffermann, Director |
3rd | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 13 |
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden Represented by Lisa Månsson, Director General |
1st | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
| 14 |
Vitenparken, Norway Represented by Solveig Arnesen |
1st | 2023 |
Term running until 2025 |
7. Key Dates and Information
Deadline to send complete candidature by email to info@ecsite.eu for the attention of the President - Midnight, CET, 17 March 2024
All candidatures will be published and sent to the Ecsite Full members in the AGM booklet as they are received. Ecsite will not edit the candidatures.
All candidates to the Board will present their views to the Full members in a 2 minute presentation during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday 7 June 2024, 15:30 – 17:15 CEST, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
