The General Assembly (GA) brings together all the members of EAPN and is the highest authority of EAPN. It adopts the EAPN’s annual work programme and sets policies guidelines and priorities for the organization. It adopts the annual budget, as well as ratifying the Executive Committee.
2015 EAPN Strategic Congress & General Assembly
Documents
2015 Strategic Congress – 3 July
- Draft Agenda
- Draft EAPN Strategic Plan 2015-2018
- Methodology for revisions to Strategic Plan
- StrategicCongressReportBH.docx
2015 EAPN General Assembly – 4 July
- 1. Draft agenda
- 2. List of Participants
- 3. Minutes of 2014 GA
- 4. Activity report 2014
- 5a. 2014 EC Audit Report – Core and Alliance budgets
- 5b. 2014 Audit Report to the GA
- 6a. 2014 Final Core Budget
- 6b.2014 Final Alliance Budget
- 7. 2014 Balance Sheet
- 8.2015 Appointment of auditors
- 9. Standing Orders – table of BUREAU & EOs amendments
- 10a. Draft EAPN Strategic Plan 2015-2018
- 10b. Methodology of revisions to the Strategic Plan
- 11. Draft Work Programme 2016 – Amendments from BAPN
- 12. Draft budget 2016
- 13. Draft final declaration
- Final declaration
Background documents
Follow-up documents
2014 EAPN General Assembly
The 2014 General Assembly was held on 28 June in Tallinn, Estonia
Documents
- Practical information
- Table with which documents sent out on which dates
- 1. Agenda
- 2. Revised procedures document
- 3. Statutory minutes 2013 GA
- 3.1. Report of non-statutory discussions at the 2013 GA
- 4. Draft Activity Report 2013
- 5. Financial report 2013
- 6. Audit 2013
- 7. Draft work programme 2015
- 8.1. Draft core budget 2015
- 8.2. Draft budget Semester Alliance 2015
- 9. Application for membership from Latvia
- 10. Draft final declaration
- 11. EP post election planning
- NEW 11i. Powerpoint on the elections by Barbara
- 12. EXCO-GA participants list
- 13. EAPN input to Mid-Term Review
- Minutes
2013 EAPN General Assembly
The 2013 General Assembly was held on 14 and 15 June in Belgrade, Serbia
Documents
- Documents list
- Guidelines on Procedures
- Practical information: English – French
- Programme: English – French
- Draft minutes GA 2012: English – French
- Financial report 2012
- Auditors report 2012
- Proposal for Standing Order Changes
- Workshop exchange during the General Assembly, based on Member’ Annual Reports
- Report GA 2012 Non Statuory Business
- Minutes Statutory
- Report of the non-statutory discussions at the GA
At EAPN’s 2013 General Assembly held in Serbia, Dr Slobodan Cvejic made a presentation to all EAPN representatives entitled “Welcome to Serbia – Living in Real Serbia Today”. Check it out!
2012 EAPN General Assembly
The 2012 General Assembly was held from 7 to 9 June in Sandvika, near Oslo, Norway
Useful documents
- ADOPTED FINAL DECLARATION – English – French – Italian – Spanish – Hungarian – Slovak – Dutch – Greek – German
- Guidelines on Procedures – English – French
- Practical information
- Programme – English – French
- Delegates list
- Minutes of GA 2011 – English – French
- Draft Activity Report 2011 – English – French
- Budget 2011
- Audit Report – English
- Application from Dynamo – English – French
- Proposal for changes to the Standing Orders – English – French
- Draft Work Programme 2013 – English – French
- Budget 2013
- New Bureau members’ candidatures
- Workshops proposed by members
- Evaluation Form – English – French
Workshops reports
- Workshop 1: EAPN UK/Migrant Voice UK: Towards a more inclusive equal society for all; standing with migrants in the current crisis
- Workshop 2: EAPN Italy and EAPN Hungary: The European Meetings of People Experiencing Poverty – An opportunity for making EAPN and its National Networks Stronger
- Workshop 3: EAPN Spain: Workshop on Discrimination
- Workshop 4: EAPN UK: Tackling In-Work Poverty: Options for Campaigners
- Workshop 5: EAPN Italy: Minimum income between the adequate and the basic one – English – French
- Workshop 6: EAPN Netherlands: Youth Unemployment
- Workshop 7: BAPN: Energy Poverty
- Workshop 8: EAPN Poland/ATD Poland: Long lasting extreme poverty and inequalities in time of crisis – two issues? Two responses?
- Workshop 9: EAPN Spain: Workshop on Cyber-activism (Internet Activism) and Crowdfunding
- Workshop 10: EAPN Portugal + EAPN Greece: The social impact of the austerity measures in the “Troika countries”
- Report from Member Led Workshop (in English)
Study visits
- FREE
- National Charitable Association for Justice for Losers
- Oslo Poorhouse
- The PRO Centre
- The battery
- Your future
Presentations
- New member IFSW’s presentation
- New member Dynamo International’s presentation
- In-work poverty workshop presentation by Peter Kelly
- Minimum Income workshop presentation by Nicoletta Teodosi
- Perspective on the Crisis from Norway by Bjørn Hvinden
- Input by Olivier Marguery for Crisis Debate (in French)
- Input from Ludo Horemans for Crisis Debate
- Input from the Norwegian State Secretary
2011 EAPN General Assembly
The 2011 General Assembly was held from 16 to 18 of June in Lisbon, Portugal
Useful documents
- Programme in English and in French
- Draft Final Declaration in English – French – Swedish – German
- Audit report and finance document
- List of all the documents
- Practical information in English and in French
- Draft EAPN Work Programme 2012 in Englishand in French
- Draft Strategic Plan 2012-2014 in English – French – German
- Note on Draft Stratgic Plan and Structures in Englishand in French
- Resolutions not related to the Work Programme in English and French
- Outline for workshops and Market Place in English and in French
- Proposed Statute Changes in English and French
- Guidelines on procedures for the GA 2011 in English and in French
- Applications in 2011 in English and French
- Draft budget for 2012
- Visit to the AMI Foundation
- Visit to KCIDADE Urban Community Support Programme
- Visit to Moinho da Juventude
- Visit to the Critical Urban Area Initiative Cova Moura
- Summary of the 4 visits in French
- GA 2010 minutes in English
- GA 2010 Final report in French
2010 EAPN General Assembly
The 2010 General Assembly was held from 10 to 12 June in Limassol, Cyprus
Presentations
- EU Year 2010: Building a Social Europe for all – presentation by Lenia Samuel, EU Commission
- Integration of Migrants – A Human Rights Concern – Key note address by Thomas Huddleston
- Migration workshop – presentation by Rosalia Guntin Ubiergo, EAPN Spain
- Europe 2020 – European Platform against poverty – presentation by Sian Jones, EAPN Europe
- EY 2010 – presentation by Pauline Geoghegan, EAPN Europe EY coordinator
Useful documents
- Draft Programme
- Draft Declaration in English – Polish
- Document on Preparation needed for the GA
- Practical information
- Document on site visits
- Guidelines on Procedures for the GA
- New expense claim 2010
- EAPN budget 2011 start draft
- Application for membership from EAPN Estonia
- Draft EAPN Work Programme 2011 (Please note that on the first page you will find the key proposed changes for the 2011 work programme)
- EAPN position paper on Migration and Poverty (This paper has been slightly updated from the previously agreed version. The changes are highlighted)
- EAPN position paper on the Platform against poverty
- Information on the Migration Workshops
- Information on the Saturday morning strategic planning workshops
- Powerpoint presentation for the Group of Participation
- Issues emerging from the 2009 EAPN evaluation
- Update on activities in the 2010 European Year
- Accounts 2009
- Balance Sheet 2009
- Auditors Report 2009
- EAPN Activity Report 2009
- General Assembly 2009 Conference Report
- Minutes GA 2009
2009 EAPN General Assembly
The 2009 General Assembly was held from 11 to 13 June in Vienna, Austria.
Workshop presentations
- Workshop 1 – Social progress in a time of crisis – Ludo Horemans’ presentation
- Workshop 1 – Social progress in a time of crisis – Sian Jones’ presentation
- Workshop 2 – Communicating the realities of poverty – Pauline Geoghegan’s presentation
- Workshop 2 – Communicating the realities of poverty – Antoine Saint-Denis’ presentation
- Workshop 2 – Communicating the realities of poverty – Micheline Gerondal’s presentation
- Workshop 3 – The need of more and better democracy – Tanya Basarab’s presentation
- Workshop 4 – A Fairer distribution of wealth – Prof. Richard Wilkinson’s presentation
- Workshop 4 – A Fairer distribution of wealth – Helene Schuberth’s presentation
Useful documents
- GA Doc List
- Programme
- Practical Information
- Project visits
- Project visits maps
- Guidelines on procedures
- Application for membership from Slovenia
- Application for membership from ECDN in English and French
- Report from GA 2008
- Activity Report 2008 to the General Assembly
- Accounts 2008
- Balance Sheet 2008
- Audit Report 2008
- Draft Work Programme 2010
- Resolution related to the Work Programme in English and French
- Draft Budget 2010
- Final Declaration
- Resolutions not related to the Work Programme in English and French
- Information on Workshops
- Workshops maps
- List of Delegates
- Candidates for the Bureau in English and French
- 2009 Expense claim form
Documents for Information
2008 EAPN General Assembly;
The 2008 EAPN General Assembly was held from 25 to 27 September in Bulgaria.
Useful documents
- 2008 General Assembly report in English and French.
- The EAPN annual activity report 2007
- Expenditures 2007
- Financial Statement 2007
- Audit Report 2007
- Draft minutes from 2007
- The EAPN statutes
- Application of membership
- Resolutions (in English and French)
- The draft programme
- The guidelines for procedures
- Participant preparation for marketplace and workshops
- Activity Report 2008
- Draft Work Programme 2009
- Draft budget 2009
- Draft Final Declaration GA 2008