AGM Wednesday March 12 2014

APUL – The Association of Professors of the University of Luxembourg

Minutes from the Annual General Meeting 2014

Wednesday, 12th March 2014, room BS 0.01 CL

Present: I. Behrmann, R. Bisdorff, J.-L. Bueb, P. Bouvry, O. Francis, M. Hesse, J. Lagerwall, R. Leboutte, M. Pauly, T. Schilling, U. Sorger, E. Weydert
Excused: L. Blessing, S. Mauw, P. Ryan, F. N. Teferle, L. Van der Torre, J. Van der Walt,T. Van Dam, A. Fickers

The meeting starts at: 17h08

Agenda

A. Reporting the past APUL activities

  1. Monthly posts on the APUL website
  2. 6 APUL Committee Meetings: 10/4/13, 29/4/13, 22/5/13, 12/6/13, 21/10/13, 18/12/13
  3. Official Delegations
    • 27th June 2013: official invitation in front of the Parliament Commission on Higher Education and Research (see CDL minutes)
    • 28th February 2014: APUL chair meets with Marc Jaeger
  4. Official Letters

The report, presented by RB, is discussed and unanimously accepted by the audience.

B. Formal submission of nominations for the APUL executive offices

  • APUL chair: Johan VAN DER WALT, nominated by M. Pauly, seconded by T. Schilling;
  • FSTC vice-chair: Tanja SCHILLING, nominated by I. Behrmann, seconded by O. Francis;
  • FLSHASE vice-chair: Andreas FICKERS, nominated by M. Pauly, seconded by R. Leboutte;
  • Secretary: Raymond BISDORFF, nominated by T. Schilling, seconded by U. Sorger;
  • Treasurer: Olivier FRANCIS, nominated by U. Sorger, seconded by J.-L. Bueb.

C. Presentation of the candidates

In turn all nominated candidates were presented or presented themselves:
J. Van Der Walt (by R. Bisdorff), T. Schilling, A. Fickers (by M. Pauly), R. Bisdorff and O. Francis.

D. Electing the next APUL executive officers

No secret ballots nor individual elections were asked by the audience. Followed a unanimous voting in favour of all the nominated candidates.

The leaving FLSHASE-vice-chair, M. Pauly, now replaced by A. Fickers, proposes to continue assisting the new APUL executive in the UL law revision procedure.

All leaving and new officers were thanked for their past, respectively  present, academic engagement.

As JVDW, the new APUL chair, is unfortunately not present, RB , the past chair and new secretary, is asked to continue chairing the ongoing AGM.

E. Preparing the forthcoming EGM on Monday 7th April with Prof. Rainer Klump, the UL rector elect

The important forthcoming extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is discussed in detail. A meeting time from 16:00-17:30 is already arranged with R. Klump and room BS 2.01 on campus Limpertsberg (an auditorium with 120 seats) is booked accordingly.  Around 50 to 80 persons are expected to attend. The EGM will be open to all the UL personnel.

Decisions:

  1. RB will send asap a first announcement and invitation to the academics with a request for collecting until March 22, their questions and concerns to be forwarded, the case given,  beforehand to R. Klump;
  2. JVDW will formally welcome and introduce R. Klump before his presentation of around 60 minutes. The remaining time will be devoted to questions and answers from the audience,
  3. TS organises a drink after the meeting.

F. Discussion of and response to Prof. Tarrach’s letter from the 20th of November 2013

Decision: Due to lack of time as well as the unfortunate absence of JVDW, this agenda item is postponed to a next APUL meeting.

The AGM ends at: 18h35

Minutes prepared by R. Bisdorff,
Luxembourg, 13th March 2014.