1. ALLEA Board Meeting
Royal Society of Edinburgh
29/30 June 2015

2. Item 1 – Meeting Agenda / Minutes
29 June 2015
Item 1 Approval: Meeting agenda / Minutes of last Board meeting
Item 2 Report: Recent, on-going and upcoming activities including Working Group activities
Item 3 Review and follow-up: General Assembly 2015
Item 4 Discussion and update on finances
Item 5 New and pending membership applications
Item 6 General Assembly and Mme de Stael prize 2016 (including election of ALLEA Board members)
RSE Reception
 welcome by the RSE President
 brief word about RSE International work by Chair of International
Committee
 brief word about ALLEA by its President
Dinner at the New Club

3. Item 2
Report: Recent, on-going and upcoming activities including Working Group activities
Attachment:
Letter from VP of European Commission and Carlos Moedas

4. Item 3 Review and follow-up: General Assembly 2015 Attachments:
Letter to Member Academies regarding 5% increase Minutes of GA 2015

5. General Assembly 2015

6. Discussion and update on finances
Item 4
Discussion and update on finances
Attachment:
Overview Membership Dues 2015
Excerpt - meeting minutes of ALLEA Board meeting in Wroclaw, September 2013 on “non-payers”

7. Current account balance (as of 22 June 2015): 113.863,45 €
ALLEA Membership dues 2015
MSD 2015 received: ,00 €*
Current account balance (as of 22 June 2015): ,45 €
*not included but to be received (committed in writing): 2000€ from Ukraine and 2500€ from Academie des Sciences

8. Item 5 Attachment: Report on new Membership Application, Peter Kennedy
New and pending membership applications
Attachment:
Report on new Membership Application, Peter Kennedy

9. Item 5 New and pending membership applications
ACADEMY
Country
State of application
LAST Action / NEXT STEPS
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Azerbaijan
Invited and reminded to prepare dossier
Await dossier
Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Albania
Existing member consulted; applicant invited to prepare dossier
Await answer from existing member / await dossier
International Academy of the History of Science (AIHS)
International scope
Invited to and reminded to prepare dossier for possible associate membership
Await dossier
National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine
Ukraine
Dossier received / pending answer from existing member academy
Await answer from existing member
Learned Society of Wales UK
Invited to present dossier
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Norway

10. Item 6
General Assembly and Mme de Stael prize (including election of ALLEA Board members)

11. 17.30 RSE Reception - welcome by the RSE President - brief word about RSE International work by Chair of International Committee - brief word about ALLEA by its President Dinner at the New Club

12. ALLEA Board Meeting
Royal Society of Edinburgh
29/30 June 2015

13. Meeting Agenda 30 June 2015 Attachments:
Item 7 The new Science Advice Mechanism of the European Commission – SAM
Item 8 Potential role for ALLEA Working Groups in the new system
Item 9 Other science policy issues and activities
Item 10 Next meetings and any other business
13:00 Closing of the Meeting followed by Lunch on the invitation of RSE
Conducted tour of Historic Edinburgh by Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FRSE
18.30 RSE Fellows' Summer Reception (for Board members who remain)
Attachments:
Minutes, ALLEA Board Meeting in Venice
Notes, Preparatory ALLEA Board Meeting, Lisbon
Meeting Agenda

14. The new Science Advice Mechanism of the European Commission – SAM
Item 7
The new Science Advice Mechanism of the European Commission – SAM
Attachments:
SAM information
Joint press statement of academy organisations
Draft Horizon 2020 call

16. Potential role for ALLEA Working Groups in the new system
Item 8
Potential role for ALLEA Working Groups in the new system
Attachment:
Final Draft MoU European Academies Organisations

17. Other science policy issues and activities
Item 9
Other science policy issues and activities
Attachment:
Invitation and preliminary programme “Science Meets Parliaments” event

18. Next meetings and any other business
Item 10
Next meetings and any other business

19. Item 10 Next meetings and any other business
Date
Venue
Remarks
Board Meeting 3/2015 
10 / 11 September 2015
Bern
Meeting on 11 September; Excursion to glacier on 12 September
Board Meeting 4/2015
7 / 8 December 2015
Dublin
Including meeting with WG chairs on second day
Board Meeting 1/2016
29 February – 1 March 2016
Bucharest
Confirmed
General Assembly 2016
18 / 19 April 2016
Vienna
Confirmed; two full days
Board Meeting 2/2016
20-21 June 2016
Minsk
Board Meeting 3 / 2016
September 2016
Tiflis (?)
Invitation from Georgian National Academy
Board Meeting 4 / 2016
December 2016
tbc

20. 13:00 Closing of the Meeting followed by Lunch on the invitation of RSE Conducted tour of Historic Edinburgh by Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FRSE RSE Fellows' Summer Reception (for Board members who remain)