BEDA GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP
29.03.2007 News
Berlin (Germany) - The Bureau of European Design Associations, founded in
1969, with 39 member organisations from 22 European countries and
representing over 15,000 professional designers, held its General
Assembly on 24 March in the Internationales Designzentrum (IDZ),
Berlin, coinciding with the EU 50 Anniversary. Representatives from 22
European countries and 36 organisations were present.
At
the end of the meeting, the former President Massimo Pitis (Italy)
handed over the Presidency to Michael Thomson (United Kingdom).
The
General Assembly also elected Board Member Jan R. Stavik (Norway) as
the new BEDA Vice-President. The General Assembly accepted the proposal
of the Board to move the BEDA office from Barcelona to Brussels at the
beginning of 2008. This will enable the organisation to work closer
with the European Commission. The new President, Michael Thomson is the
representative of the Design Business Association - DBA, which is one
of the 36 member associations of BEDA.
"The key goal of
BEDA is a European policy for design", says Thomson. "In order to
achieve that, we need to communicate the value of design to the
European Commission. The commission must be aware that design is a very
important economic factor for Europe, and that it can play a major role
in keeping the EU competitive".
For further information please contact:
BEDA Secretariat
E: office@beda.org
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