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and require council approval for their
major activities. The right to vote at the
EC meetings remains with the national
society Councillors, as established by the
constitution of the Union, since the Union
is a body made up of national societies
and not technical experts.
t
The Divisions have given the Union the tools
to better coordinate and improve the quality
of the many conferences and workshops it
sponsors or supports for the benefit of all
scientific specialists. The IUVSTA serves as
a “clearing house” for the organisation of
international congresses and conferences
on vacuum and related fields by granting
sponsorship for these meetings. At the
STD meeting during ECM-84 in September
1999, it was agreed to replace the word
sponsorship by “endorsement”, in order
to make it clear that the IUVSTA was not
offering financial support for these meetings.
The formalities of the endorsement requests
are handled by the Secretary General, but
divisional approval is also required. The
purpose of the endorsement is to avoid
timing conflicts and coordinate international
meetings in fields of interest to the Union. It
is also intended that potential participants
can feel assured that an endorsed
conference will be well organised, be of a
high scientific quality and, if international, will
have wide international representation on its
organisation and program committees.
100,000
participants
to our scientific and
technical events
per year
TABLE VIII.
EUROPEAN VACUUM CONFERENCES (EVC)
Name
Date
Location
EVC-1
11-15 April 1988
Salford (GB)
EVC-2
21-26 May 1990
Trieste (I)
EVC-3
23-27 September 1991
Vienna (A)
EVC-4
13-17 June 1994
Uppsala (S)
EVC-5
23-27 September 1996
Salamanca (E)
EVC-6
7-10 December 1999
Lyon (F)
EVC-7
17-21 September 2001
Madrid (E)
EVC-8
23-26 June 2003
Berlin (D)
EVC-9
4-7 April 2005
Paris (F)
EVC-10
22-26 September 2008
Lake Balaton (H)
EVC-11
20-24 September 2010
Salamanca (E)
EVC-12
04-08 June 2012
Dubrovnik (CRO)
EVC-13
08-12 September 2014
Aveiro (P)
EVC-14
06-10 June 2016
Portoroz (SL)