nickwilliams
Well-known member
This edition from the European Speleological Federation is available online on http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/forums/viewtopic.php?id=255
Dear Caving Friends / Chers Amis Speleo,
Before a summer full of caving explorations around Europe and overseas, we are happy to give you some speleological news from all over Europe.
First of all we want to warmly thank the SSI and the Sardinian organisers of the IVth EuroSpeleo Forum that took place in Urzulzei-Italy early May and that have gathered more than 1700 cavers including nearly 300 European cavers coming from outside of Italy. It was a great success in spite of the difficulty to organise such a big event on a Mediterranean island. The fascinating Sardinian caves and the traditional SpeleoBar have been very much appreciated by all those who made the trip there.
FSE' GAM AT HIDDEN EARTH :
The European Speleological Federation will be present during next British caving conference Hidden Earth 2009, end of September, with the FSE General Assembly Meeting (GAM) that will be held on the congress site on the Saturday 26th of September 2009 at 2pm. The gathering will be held from the 25th to the 27th of September in Churchill, England at 10km from Bristol international airport. It will be the opportunity to meet cavers from all over Europe. The agenda of the FSE GAM is available on : http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fsue_gam_agendas/fse-2009_convocation-agenda-gam-ag.pdf
And all the details about Hidden Earth are on : http://www.Hidden-Earth.org.uk
FSE ROUND TABLES ON INSPIRE & EXPEDITIONS :
On one hand, after numerous requests it is proposed to organise at Hidden Earth a Round Table on the subject of "Speleology & European Environmental GIS Standards INSPIRE". All the details about INSPIRE are available on the official site on : http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ or on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_for_Spatial_Information_in_the_European_Community
On the other hand, in the frame of the "International Caving Expeditions Database" project held by the FSE and the UIS, it is also proposed to have a round table around this project. Manuel Freire, project leader, will chair the meeting.
The persons interested to take part to one of these round-tables should send us an email to <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org before the 10th of July indicating the round-table name and the schedule they would prefer for the Round Table on September (Saturday 26th morning, Saturday 26th evening or Sunday 27th morning - choice1 & choice2).
ICS 2009 IN TEXAS :
With already more than 1250 pre-registered participants including nearly 400 non-US cavers, the next International Congress of Speleology 2009, end of July in Texas, is to be a very nice event where it will be possible to meet with speleologists from all over the world. The European Speleological Federation will be represented there by its president, secretary and treasurer. There will be a meeting between the members of the UIS Bureau and the FSE Bureau. If you have a proposal of a specific issue you would like to be dealt during this meeting, please send it to us at <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org before the 3rd of July.
Since, according to the tradition, next International Congress should be held on 2013 in Europe, we encourage every European cavers going to Texas to take contact with the FSE Bureau members in order to coordinate our efforts for that. And if, for this event, you want to wear a European' Caver T-shirt, please send us asap an email to contact [at] eurospeleo.org . The cost is 10 euros for short sleeves and 15 euros for long sleeves (+3 euros for postage).
All the information about next ICS is on : http://www.ics2009.us
FSE : THE LATEST NEWS
FSE counts now 23 full members with 2 new countries : Norway (full member) and Croatia (in finalization of membership).
We wish them a warm welcome among the big European speleological family and will ask them to bring nice beverages from their home country at Hidden Earth in order to commemorate their entry in the European Federation. The list of FSE members is available on last GAM report (point 7) on :
http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf
FSE CAVE PROTECTION :
The ECPC will hold its official meeting during the Balkan Cavers Camp 2009 from 24th-28th June in Olimpos, Antalia, Turkey. The meeting will be chaired by Viorel Lascu and Ioana Meleg from the ECPC board and Alexey Zhalov from the FSE Bureau. The agenda will include the following topics :
1. European Cave Day
2. EuroSpeleo Protection Label
3. Priorities regarding Cave protection in Balkans
If you are interested to receive the news about this ECPC meeting, please send an email to the FSE Protection Commission : mailto
rotection [at] eurospeleo.org
More info on the Balkan Cavers Camp 2009 on : http://www.tumab.org/
EUROSPELEO FORUM 2010, 2011 & 2012 :
A call open to every European country has been made for the organisation of next EuroSpeleo Forums for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The EuroSpeleo Forum is a European label that can be given for one of your important national speleological event where you want to invite all the European cavers to gather and exchange in your country. The deadlines to apply are the following :
EuroSpeleo Forum 2010 : 20th of July 2009
EuroSpeleo Forum 2011 & 2012 : 20th of September 2009
The call text and the application form are available on :
http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/forum/call-for-euro-speleo-forums-2010-2012-01.rtf
and you can send your questions about EuroSpeleo Forums at : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
DELEGATES' CORNER :
* The report of the last FSE Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting in Vercors is available on :
<http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf>http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf
* The 2008-2009 membership fees have to paid before 30th of June, if you haven't receive the paper invoice or haven't paid it yet, please contact asap our Treasurer, Manuel Freire, at : <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org
* The paper convocation for next GAM in September have been sent to every delegate early June, if you don't have received it by the end of June, please contact us.
* The updated statutes and internal regulations of the FSE are now available on :http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/statutes/fse_statutes_aug2008.pdf
and http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/statutes/fse_regulations_aug2008.pdf
CONGRESSES IN EUROPE :
Several other important congresses are to happen soon :
* The Portuguese and Spanish Speleological Federations organise in partnership with the Natural History Museum of Valencia (Spain) the First Iberian Meeting of Subterranean Biology on the 10-12 July 2009. All the information is on www.naturamuseo.org Email contact : Sofia Reboleira at protection [at] eurospeleo.org
* The 13th European Bat Night will take place all over Europe on the 29-30 August 2009. More info on http://www.eurobats.org/news_events/european_bat_night.htm
Email contact : eurobats [at] eurobats.org
INCREASE OF EUROSPELEO PROJECTS FUND :
Since the beginning of 2009, the FSE has given the EuroSpeleo Projects (ESP) label to 6 new speleological projects that have gathered at least 5 European countries (expeditions, camps, workshops, symposiums, trainings, scientific experiments, publications, etc). A presentation of these projects will be made at Hidden Earth by the FSE Vice-Secretary, Alexey Zhalov.
A good news is that, following last European congress in France, the FFS has donated to the FSE for the ESP fund the amount of 8500 euros, resulting from the participants fees in Vercors and the positive balance. On its meeting of the 2nd of May 2009, the FSE Bureau has decided to increase the minimum grant level from 100 euros to 400 euros and to nearly double the general budget relative to the ESP funding. For the next EuroSpeleo Forums we encourage the organisers to do the same and to collect 1 euro per day and per participant (ie. 3 euros for 3 days) for the ESP fund.
Since the 1st of March 2009, every ESP labelled projects receive, over the FSE financial grant, 500 m of caving rope (with choice of diameter) from our FSE Official Partner : BEAL (their multilingual site is on www.BealPlanet.com). The first kilometers of caving ropes should arrive on the field on early July for the ESP projects. BEAL Ropes will send us soon some news about their activities. If you have technical questions for them don't hesitate to contact us at contact [at] eurospeleo.org
So, to summarize, if your speleological project includes at least 5 European countries, and you are interested by this European label, you can download the information and the application form on :
http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main6/eurospeleo-projects/eurospeleo-projects-funding-application-form-v0-5.rtf
NB : Since August 2008, if your project includes 5 countries from Europe OR Latin America (all members of FSE or FEALC), the ESP label also works !
NEWS, PHOTOS, BOOKS & AGENDA :
* Andrea Scatolini from the Italian multilingual speleological news website <http://www.Scintilena.com>www.Scintilena.com is willing to build a European Speleological Portal including every caving news sites over Europe. If you want to help him or if you know a caving news site that would be good to be added, please send him an email to : <mailtoortal@eurospeleo.org>portal@eurospeleo.org
* The Warsaw Speleoclub Association invites every enthusiastic caves photographers to participate in the IVth Waldemar Burkacki International Cave Photography Contest. The photos should be submitted by the 30th of September 2009. The regulations and contestant's application form can be found on the website: www.speleo.waw.pl/konkurs For any information, please email them at : konkurs [at] speleo.waw.pl
* The Swiss Society of Speleology (SSS), member of the FSE, has inaugurated during this spring a useful multilingual online search engine to look for speleological monographs and magazines among the thousands of books that are in the SSS library. The present version is available through www.speleo.ch or directly on : http://212.147.38.216:8080/English/Main.htm Email contact : Patrick Deriaz - ssslib [at] vtx.ch
* If you want to publish your speleological events (national or regional) among the European FSE network, please send us the details of it including the website link at : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
Have a good Summertime full of speleological explorations,
For the Bureau FSE,
Olivier Vidal
Secr. General FSE
+33 - 6 81 61 16 70
Email : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
Web : www.eurospeleo.org
Forums : http://fsue.org/forums/
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FSE Official Partner - Cordes - BEAL - Ropes - Partenaire Officiel FSE
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*************************www.BealPlanet.com**************************
AG - FSE - GAM - 26 Sept 2009 - Green Churchill - Somerset - England
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***********************www.Hidden-Earth.org.uk*************************
Dear Caving Friends / Chers Amis Speleo,
Before a summer full of caving explorations around Europe and overseas, we are happy to give you some speleological news from all over Europe.
First of all we want to warmly thank the SSI and the Sardinian organisers of the IVth EuroSpeleo Forum that took place in Urzulzei-Italy early May and that have gathered more than 1700 cavers including nearly 300 European cavers coming from outside of Italy. It was a great success in spite of the difficulty to organise such a big event on a Mediterranean island. The fascinating Sardinian caves and the traditional SpeleoBar have been very much appreciated by all those who made the trip there.
FSE' GAM AT HIDDEN EARTH :
The European Speleological Federation will be present during next British caving conference Hidden Earth 2009, end of September, with the FSE General Assembly Meeting (GAM) that will be held on the congress site on the Saturday 26th of September 2009 at 2pm. The gathering will be held from the 25th to the 27th of September in Churchill, England at 10km from Bristol international airport. It will be the opportunity to meet cavers from all over Europe. The agenda of the FSE GAM is available on : http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fsue_gam_agendas/fse-2009_convocation-agenda-gam-ag.pdf
And all the details about Hidden Earth are on : http://www.Hidden-Earth.org.uk
FSE ROUND TABLES ON INSPIRE & EXPEDITIONS :
On one hand, after numerous requests it is proposed to organise at Hidden Earth a Round Table on the subject of "Speleology & European Environmental GIS Standards INSPIRE". All the details about INSPIRE are available on the official site on : http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ or on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_for_Spatial_Information_in_the_European_Community
On the other hand, in the frame of the "International Caving Expeditions Database" project held by the FSE and the UIS, it is also proposed to have a round table around this project. Manuel Freire, project leader, will chair the meeting.
The persons interested to take part to one of these round-tables should send us an email to <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org before the 10th of July indicating the round-table name and the schedule they would prefer for the Round Table on September (Saturday 26th morning, Saturday 26th evening or Sunday 27th morning - choice1 & choice2).
ICS 2009 IN TEXAS :
With already more than 1250 pre-registered participants including nearly 400 non-US cavers, the next International Congress of Speleology 2009, end of July in Texas, is to be a very nice event where it will be possible to meet with speleologists from all over the world. The European Speleological Federation will be represented there by its president, secretary and treasurer. There will be a meeting between the members of the UIS Bureau and the FSE Bureau. If you have a proposal of a specific issue you would like to be dealt during this meeting, please send it to us at <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org before the 3rd of July.
Since, according to the tradition, next International Congress should be held on 2013 in Europe, we encourage every European cavers going to Texas to take contact with the FSE Bureau members in order to coordinate our efforts for that. And if, for this event, you want to wear a European' Caver T-shirt, please send us asap an email to contact [at] eurospeleo.org . The cost is 10 euros for short sleeves and 15 euros for long sleeves (+3 euros for postage).
All the information about next ICS is on : http://www.ics2009.us
FSE : THE LATEST NEWS
FSE counts now 23 full members with 2 new countries : Norway (full member) and Croatia (in finalization of membership).
We wish them a warm welcome among the big European speleological family and will ask them to bring nice beverages from their home country at Hidden Earth in order to commemorate their entry in the European Federation. The list of FSE members is available on last GAM report (point 7) on :
http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf
FSE CAVE PROTECTION :
The ECPC will hold its official meeting during the Balkan Cavers Camp 2009 from 24th-28th June in Olimpos, Antalia, Turkey. The meeting will be chaired by Viorel Lascu and Ioana Meleg from the ECPC board and Alexey Zhalov from the FSE Bureau. The agenda will include the following topics :
1. European Cave Day
2. EuroSpeleo Protection Label
3. Priorities regarding Cave protection in Balkans
If you are interested to receive the news about this ECPC meeting, please send an email to the FSE Protection Commission : mailto
rotection [at] eurospeleo.orgMore info on the Balkan Cavers Camp 2009 on : http://www.tumab.org/
EUROSPELEO FORUM 2010, 2011 & 2012 :
A call open to every European country has been made for the organisation of next EuroSpeleo Forums for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The EuroSpeleo Forum is a European label that can be given for one of your important national speleological event where you want to invite all the European cavers to gather and exchange in your country. The deadlines to apply are the following :
EuroSpeleo Forum 2010 : 20th of July 2009
EuroSpeleo Forum 2011 & 2012 : 20th of September 2009
The call text and the application form are available on :
http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/forum/call-for-euro-speleo-forums-2010-2012-01.rtf
and you can send your questions about EuroSpeleo Forums at : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
DELEGATES' CORNER :
* The report of the last FSE Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting in Vercors is available on :
<http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf>http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/gam/fse_xgam_26aug2008en.pdf
* The 2008-2009 membership fees have to paid before 30th of June, if you haven't receive the paper invoice or haven't paid it yet, please contact asap our Treasurer, Manuel Freire, at : <mailto:contact@eurospeleo.org>contact@eurospeleo.org
* The paper convocation for next GAM in September have been sent to every delegate early June, if you don't have received it by the end of June, please contact us.
* The updated statutes and internal regulations of the FSE are now available on :http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/statutes/fse_statutes_aug2008.pdf
and http://eurospeleo.org/main3/papers/statutes/fse_regulations_aug2008.pdf
CONGRESSES IN EUROPE :
Several other important congresses are to happen soon :
* The Portuguese and Spanish Speleological Federations organise in partnership with the Natural History Museum of Valencia (Spain) the First Iberian Meeting of Subterranean Biology on the 10-12 July 2009. All the information is on www.naturamuseo.org Email contact : Sofia Reboleira at protection [at] eurospeleo.org
* The 13th European Bat Night will take place all over Europe on the 29-30 August 2009. More info on http://www.eurobats.org/news_events/european_bat_night.htm
Email contact : eurobats [at] eurobats.org
INCREASE OF EUROSPELEO PROJECTS FUND :
Since the beginning of 2009, the FSE has given the EuroSpeleo Projects (ESP) label to 6 new speleological projects that have gathered at least 5 European countries (expeditions, camps, workshops, symposiums, trainings, scientific experiments, publications, etc). A presentation of these projects will be made at Hidden Earth by the FSE Vice-Secretary, Alexey Zhalov.
A good news is that, following last European congress in France, the FFS has donated to the FSE for the ESP fund the amount of 8500 euros, resulting from the participants fees in Vercors and the positive balance. On its meeting of the 2nd of May 2009, the FSE Bureau has decided to increase the minimum grant level from 100 euros to 400 euros and to nearly double the general budget relative to the ESP funding. For the next EuroSpeleo Forums we encourage the organisers to do the same and to collect 1 euro per day and per participant (ie. 3 euros for 3 days) for the ESP fund.
Since the 1st of March 2009, every ESP labelled projects receive, over the FSE financial grant, 500 m of caving rope (with choice of diameter) from our FSE Official Partner : BEAL (their multilingual site is on www.BealPlanet.com). The first kilometers of caving ropes should arrive on the field on early July for the ESP projects. BEAL Ropes will send us soon some news about their activities. If you have technical questions for them don't hesitate to contact us at contact [at] eurospeleo.org
So, to summarize, if your speleological project includes at least 5 European countries, and you are interested by this European label, you can download the information and the application form on :
http://fsue.ffspeleo.fr/main6/eurospeleo-projects/eurospeleo-projects-funding-application-form-v0-5.rtf
NB : Since August 2008, if your project includes 5 countries from Europe OR Latin America (all members of FSE or FEALC), the ESP label also works !
NEWS, PHOTOS, BOOKS & AGENDA :
* Andrea Scatolini from the Italian multilingual speleological news website <http://www.Scintilena.com>www.Scintilena.com is willing to build a European Speleological Portal including every caving news sites over Europe. If you want to help him or if you know a caving news site that would be good to be added, please send him an email to : <mailto
ortal@eurospeleo.org>portal@eurospeleo.org* The Warsaw Speleoclub Association invites every enthusiastic caves photographers to participate in the IVth Waldemar Burkacki International Cave Photography Contest. The photos should be submitted by the 30th of September 2009. The regulations and contestant's application form can be found on the website: www.speleo.waw.pl/konkurs For any information, please email them at : konkurs [at] speleo.waw.pl
* The Swiss Society of Speleology (SSS), member of the FSE, has inaugurated during this spring a useful multilingual online search engine to look for speleological monographs and magazines among the thousands of books that are in the SSS library. The present version is available through www.speleo.ch or directly on : http://212.147.38.216:8080/English/Main.htm Email contact : Patrick Deriaz - ssslib [at] vtx.ch
* If you want to publish your speleological events (national or regional) among the European FSE network, please send us the details of it including the website link at : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
Have a good Summertime full of speleological explorations,
For the Bureau FSE,
Olivier Vidal
Secr. General FSE
+33 - 6 81 61 16 70
Email : contact [at] eurospeleo.org
Web : www.eurospeleo.org
Forums : http://fsue.org/forums/
****************************************************************************
FSE Official Partner - Cordes - BEAL - Ropes - Partenaire Officiel FSE
<>
*************************www.BealPlanet.com**************************
AG - FSE - GAM - 26 Sept 2009 - Green Churchill - Somerset - England
<>
***********************www.Hidden-Earth.org.uk*************************