EAA Communities

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EAA Communities are designed to focus the knowledge and experience of our broad membership. They are created bottom-up, by the Members, and the Communities select their own officers. An EAA Community is formally created by EAA Executive Board action, either as a result of a proposal being accepted by the Annual Membership Business Meeting or on its own initiative.

Current Communities

There are currently more than twenty Communities in the EAA.

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EAA financial support to Communities in 2025

In view of the importance of the EAA Communities to the EAA membership, the EAA Executive Board has decided to repeat the project to support the activity of EAA Communities in 2025.

Applications must be submitted by an existing EAA Community Chair / Co-Chair and clearly show how the project aligns with the Community goals. The application must demonstrate the project’s benefits for the EAA and its Members. Supported projects need to contribute to the fulfilment of EAA’s aims and its strategic plan (available upon signing in at Member's Area > Strategic Plans). External co-funding of the project is required and will be assessed on case-by-case basis by the EAA Executive Board. Received financial support must be used by the Community before the end of 2025 at the latest. One application can receive financial support amounting to a maximum of 1000 EUR.

Applications must be submitted at https://e-a-a.questionpro.com/2025Communities by the following deadlines:

  • 10 March 2025
  • 9 June 2025
  • 29 September 2025

The applications will be evaluated by the ExB and the results will be announced within 30 days of the application submission deadline.

Creation

An EAA Community or Task Force is created by EAA Executive Board action, either as a result of a proposal being accepted by the Annual Membership Business Meeting or on its own initiative. The proposal must contain a statement that articulates the proposed Communities' or Task Forces' area of concern, the needs it will address, the products, services or activities it will deliver, the resources required to do so and the way these will be obtained, as well as a proposal for a chairperson of the Community or Task Force respectively or a procedure for selecting and for rotating the chair of a Community. A new Community proposal must be submitted for the consideration by the EAA Executive Board through this form before 1 February each year.

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Conditions

The following conditions apply to approved Communities and Task forces:

  • Community chairpersons, members, and advisors must maintain current EAA membership. Communities may consult with non-members for their special expertise, but such non-members may not formally be part of the Community.
  • Individuals who are regular Community members or chairpersons (not ex officio) are limited to simultaneous service on two communities.
  • The usual terms of Community chairs are three years, starting and ending at Annual Meetings. The Board can appoint chairs to shorter or longer terms as circumstances warrant, and chairs may be appointed to more than one term.
  • A Community's composition is typically spelled out in its terms of reference. Under special circumstances (such as a temporary increase in the community's workload or the need for sitting members to withdraw from the community's deliberations), the President, in consultation with the community chair, may appoint additional members not to exceed half the number specified in the charge.
  • The community chair is ordinarily appointed from existing community members to serve a term starting and ending at Annual Meetings. The usual term of a community chair is three years.
  • Terms of Community’s chairpersons and members are normally coextensive with that of the Community.
  • A Community chair may resign at any time or be removed for cause by the President with the approval of the Board. Should a vacancy occur during a term, a replacement appointment is made to complete the vacated term.
  • Any Board member who serves on a Community does so as an ex officio member, with voice but without vote, including the Board liaison position.
  • No new chairpersons or members will be appointed to Communities that will terminate by the next Annual Meeting.