Efpsa Newsletter March 2010

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welcome from the P-TeamHey dear EFPSA people, sponsors and

organisations!

It has been several months since the

last update, so we are happy to share quite

some news with you.

We are now back from Warsaw,

where the Board of Management held aweek-long meeting to discuss every single

EFPSA matter and to define the next steps.

We started off by implementing some

changes to our website design. Hopefully

you like it as much as we do. With the new forum set up, we would like our webpage to

become the meeting point for European psychology students!

Previous to the Board of Management Meeting, we had the Joint Executive Board

and National Representatives Meeting (or simply said, EB-NR Meeting) in Turkey, which

was a great success. The meeting was very productive for EFPSA and also allowed us toexperience the Turkish culture. We would like to thank the citys municipality and of

course the organisers for their amazing hospitality!

Currently we are working on several topics: job descriptions for EFPSA positions,

the structure of EFPSA promotion, and setting a long-term EFPSA strategy. In Warsaw,

The Board of Management also voted on introducing two new functions: the Marketing

Officer, on the Board of Management level, and the Training Officer, on the Executive

Board level. We are doing our best to prepare a good starting point for the next mandates

Board of Management.

Time flies by fast, we have already reached the last months of our mandate! The

change of the mandate will bring an opportunity for all European psychology students to

challenge themselves through very interesting, inspiring, and fun work in EFPSA. The

call for Executive Board positions will be released on March 18th. Job descriptions for the

positions will be available by that time. Apply! This is an opportunity you do not want to

miss!

Counting the days to see 240 of you at the EFPSA Congress in the Netherlands to

Free Your Mind!

:D(orota) and :P(riit)

EFPSA President Priit Tinits,EFPSA Vice-President Dorota Wisniewska


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news from the teamsActivities Office

Our focus at the time has been on

monitoring the progress and helping the

organisers of the most exciting upcoming

EFPSA event: the EFPSA Congress in the

Netherlands. However, this event is not the

only EFPSA activity. Our other focus is on

student exchanges we designed apromotional poster, and right now we are busy

with preparing the exchange workshop at the

EFPSA Congress.

In addition, we keep on updating the event calendar on the EFPSA website to keep

everyone informed about psychology related events in Europe and the world. Just go to

www.efpsa.org and click on Calendar(under Informationon the right side) to check what is

going on. You are invited to add events yourself! Just tell us about the event sending an e-

mail to [email protected].

Promotion Office

We paid our attention on preparing

promotion materials and gathering data about

EFPSA. This will enable the future Marketing

Officer and Promotion Officer to create a long-term

marketing strategy for our federation. The

promotion workshop we had during the EB-NR

Meeting generated many bright ideas. We are now

working through them forming an action plan to

have these ideas implemented within the next

months.

Activities Office Senior Coordinator Lisa Wagner& Junior Coordinator VedranLeic

Communication Officer DominikaSzymaska & Promotion Officer BaranMetin


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Country Coach Team

We are working with the National

Representatives of the EFPSA member

organisations on a regular basis. At the moment, we

are busy with creating a list containing contacts of

every European psychology organisation, both on

student and professional level. In addition, we have

been successful in reviving contacts with countries

less active in EFPSA, and right now we are working

on reintegrating them into our federation. Furthermore, we have established contacts with

students from countries not yet represented in EFPSA. This is a great success the

EFPSA Congress will be hosting participants from as much as ten non-member countries!

It is the perfect opportunity for them to get to know EFPSA, not to mention a superb

possibility for us to meet them, and learn from them. Many of our guests already

expressed their interest to join EFPSA, so we are on our way to make EFPSA grow.

Web team

We have created the most visible change of EFPSA thismandate the new website with the forum. The work has been

intense, as there are always things to be improved on the website. Do

you have ideas? Please contact us using our new forum. You will find

it on www.efpsa.org.

Head of Finance

Kosta Bovan, the EFPSA Head of Finance, took care of ongoing financial issueslike collecting membership fees and reimbursing travel costs for students attending

EFPSA events. Kosta also worked on expanding EFPSAs ties - with the help from the

Finnish National Representative Sami Raman, EFPSA gained a new Friend - the Finnish

Psychological Association. Read more about Friends of EFPSA in this newsletter!

Country Coach Doro Katzenberger &National Representatives CoordinatorMariliin Saar

Webmaster Igor Srdoc


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Sponsorship team

The Sponsorship team prepared

letters to acquire new sponsors. Good news

there: we managed to get a subscription-

based sponsorship with TherapySites.com

which offers websites for therapists - please

check the article in the end of this

newsletter for more details. If you are thinking about having a website, why not make it at

TherapySites.com?

Journal of European Psychology Students team

The JEPS team has been implementing a new Open Journal System (OJS) on the

EFPSA website having done two series of tests, the team is now familiar with OJSs

possibilities. The new system will considerably speed up the publication process for the

journal and make the review process more visibleboth authors and editors can check the

review stage of the manuscript. The

promotion part of the team has been busy

with coming up with a web layout for thenew OJS. For the upcoming issue, the

Scientific Affairs part of the team set a

temporary structure for reviewing the

manuscripts. The second issue of JEPS is

scheduled to be published until the

congress.

Grants Team

The Grants team has been working on preparing EFPSA for applying for the

Youth in Action grant 4.1. With the help of a new team member - Ferhat Yarar from

Turkey, we created some helpful manuals for getting this and other European grants.

Sponsorship Senior Coordinator Laurent Schpbach

JEPS Junior Coordinator Maris Vainre


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Travel Network Senior Coordinator

Lea Kristan & Study Abroad Junior

Coordinator Alenka Murgelj

Study Abroad team

The Study Abroad team was focusing on uploading

existing information about universities all over Europe to

the new website. Soon, a complete database about studying

abroad will be available for interested students.

Travel Network team

The Travel Network team was working on a newTravel Network website. It is not complete yet, so the new

EFPSA website has been linked to the existing Travel Network site as a temporary

solution. The team is also working on a new Travel Network presentation which should

be premiered at the EFPSA Congress in the Netherlands. Be prepared!

Secretary team

After the EB/NR meeting in Turkey, Moritz Jger was elected as the new

Secretary General. Congrats! The newly formed Secretary team started its work by

creating EFPSA Christmas cards that were sent to EFPSA people, sponsors and

organisations. Once again thanks to Alexandra Ooms who drew the Christmas card! Next

to all the administrative tasks evolving in

the daily BMs work, the Secretary team

also achieved visible improvements for the

new webpage: It is always updated and

being improved constantly.

Thanks to the help of Povilas Katkevicius,

National Representative of Lithuania, we

can present a new highlight: the EFPSA

forum. Go and visit it!

The complete Board of Management


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European Summer School team

The ESS team was busy to make the ESS 2010 an unforgettable event. We wereworking on promotion, recruiting supervisors and being in contact with the Bulgarian

organising committee. Also, we enhanced the website with a news section. All the

speakers and supervisors are selected already, thus we are happy to have the scientific

programme settled. The application procedure for the ESS 2010 will start really soon, do

not miss it!

The EFPSA Statutes Task Force

During the Executive Board/National

Representatives meeting in Turkey, the Statutes

Task Force presented the proposed changes in the

EFPSA Statutes. The most important ones

considered the definition of country, psychology

student, national, local and observer organisation

and how to handle abstaining votes. Alternative

proposals were gathered during the meeting inTurkey. The finalised version was discussed

during the second Board of Management meeting

in Warsaw and has been sent to the EFPSA

National Representatives.

Dominika Szymanska, Nathalie Lam, LisaWagner & Aart Franken


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Executive Board and National Representatives meeting inAnamur, Turkey

Like every year around November,

the EFPSA Executive Board (EB)

and National Representatives (NRs)

got together to take a look at the

work done since the annual

congress, and to set plans for the

second half of the mandate. This

time, the week between 7th and 13th November was spent in beautiful surroundings in a

village named Bozyaz near Anamur in the very south of Turkey.

The EB/NR meeting provided the unique chance to meet face to face for all those who are

dedicated to EFPSA. It created a rich environment not only for working in teams, but also

for a necessary cooperation between the teams of the Executive Board and between the

Executive Board and the National Representatives.

The National Representatives in turn focused on improving their promotion skills and

used the opportunity to share experiences and thoughts about their tasks in EFPSA. They

had their first e-voting in EFPSA and chose the organisers of the 25th EFPSA Congress(2011) and the next EB/NR Meeting.

EFPSA says a warm-hearted thank

you to the Turkish organising

committee for making this meeting

happen, and for the generous support

offered by the mayor of Anamur. The

participants of the EB/NR meeting

are deeply moved by the hospitality of

the local people for providing food forall the participants and who trusted us

with hosting us in their homes. Thank

you for providing us such an inspiring

environment for working.


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new EFPSA webpageThe EFPSA meeting in Turkey was

especially fruitful for the web team - the new

EFPSA webpage was published soon after. Its

fresh design facilitates finding the necessary

information about EFPSA. In addition, some

innovations of the webpage were

implemented: the message board on the first

page keeps visitors up to date with the latest news in EFPSA and with the events EFPSA

recommends to attend. Moreover, this is the place for the monthly e-postcard from thePresidential team to inform students about the P-team's work in EFPSA and for EFPSA.

Furthermore, a couple of completely new functions were added - the event calendar will

keep users up to date with the most important congresses, seminars, lectures, gatherings

and other events in the world of psychology. The new webpage not only helps visitors to

keep themselves up to date with EFPSA's doings, but is becoming a portal for psychology

students to help them orientate in their professional field by offering possibilities the

institutions of formal education often lack. The EFPSA forum is designed to fill this gap.

new EFPSA forum

The brand-new forum is a unique platform for psychology

students around Europe to exchange thoughts, reminiscence

about EFPSA events, gather ideas for their next research, learn

about EFPSA's doings, and last but not least, just enjoy the

chance to discuss everyday matters with co-students. What better

place to find to keep yourself up to date about events, meet people

from all over Europe to found a research group, have an exchange, plan a trip? In addition

- it's a perfect place to learn about EFPSA services, talk to the teams, and give and receivefeedback not only from the EBs and NRs, but from whole Europe! But that's far from

being it, this is THE place to discuss problems with your thesis, suggest how to broaden

one's horizon with movies to see, books to read, and games to play. Besides, is it not the

opportunity to pick up the topics you discussed with people in the last EFPSA event?

The new EFPSA forum is the place to experience the versatility that you all know as

EFPSA. Join, and tell your favourite psychology students to do the same. Login to

EFPSA's webpage and introduce yourself to the future of European psychology. See you

there!


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EFPSA Representatives in EFPA Standing Committeesand Task Forces 2009-2011

Have you ever wondered, who

has a say in what is appropriate

and what is not in the European

psychology? Who makes the

decisions? How are those

decisions made?

Since September 2009, EFPSA

(that means we) has an excellent

opportunity to represent the

ideas of European students in a

number of Standing Committees

and Task Forces at the European

Federation of Psychologists

Associations (www.efpa.eu).

The general goal of these groups

is to improve the education in their respective fields. In order to achieve that, the StandingCommittees and Task Forces issue certificates and compose training programmes to

create standards of proper handling of contrete topics in their respective areas. The work

in the committees and task forces includes a variety of activities; for example, gathering

data about scientists and practisionaries in a particular field, developing programmes to

advance the field of research, and train specialists dealing with the committees topics. All

that often involves collaboration with professionals of the respective fields, and also

working together with non-psychologist organisations, like Council of Europe, or the

European Union.

Does all that sound interesting? Keep reading!

We are still looking for two persons willing to become a part of:

Task Force on Pharmacopsychology led by Huib van Dis (Netherlands);

Standing Committee on Traffic Psychology led by Jens Schade (Germany).

Who can apply?

All EFPSA enthusiasts, who are a member of their National Organisation and are willing

to represent EFPSA until September 2011 in the above-mentioned committees.

EFPSA Representatives in StandingCommittees:

Ethics: Dorota Winiewska (Poland)

Psychotherapy: Lisa Wagner (Germany)

Tests and Testing:Tuba Yilmaz (Turkey)Scientific Affairs: Vedran Lei (Croatia)

Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Psychology: IngridBlessom (Norway)

EFPSA Representatives in Task Forces:

Geropsychology: Vedran Lei (Croatia)

Psychologists in the Educational System:

Dominika Szymaska (Poland)

Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: Andrs Csandi(Hungary)


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How much time will I need to contribute?

The members of the Standing Committee or Task Force are assigned to a specific

workgroup dealing with a concrete topic within the general domain of the group. You, as a

future member, would have to attend discussions, sometimes read an article, or collect

data. Most likely, this will take about two hours in a week.

The lions share of the work is done via e-mails. Most of groups also meet twice a year

face-to-face during 2-3 day conferences. For example, the Standing Committee on Scientific

Affairs had a meeting on the 22nd of January 2010 in London, and the Network of

Psychologists in the Educational Systemgot together in Brussels for 2 days in January 2010.

Other Committees and Task Forces are planning to meet within the next months.

Will I need to do anything more?

Yes, in addition to doing the work you have been assigned to and attending the meetings,

you will also be asked to report about your work twice a year for internal EFPSA use.

How can I apply?

Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected] until the 20th

March 2010.

BEST Trainers Forum Budapest

Three EFPSA Board of Management

members, Lisa Wagner, Dorota

Wisniewska and Dominika Szymanska,

will represent EFPSA during the

BEST Trainers Forum in Budapest

from 26-30 March 2010. There will be

up to 70 trainers from all around

Europe participating. The event has

two parts: one day of presentation

panels and two days in Open Space

methodology. It is a unique

opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences with people involved in this field of

work. The aim of EFPSAs participation is to discuss the newly created Training Officer

function and the Train New Trainers Summer School idea. We are very much looking

forward to this event!

For more information please check http://best-budapest.hu/trainers-forum/?q=node/1

Dominika Szymanska, Lisa Wagner & Dorota Wisniewska
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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EFPA Presidents Council MeetingThe European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA) held its annual

Presidents Council meeting in Brussels from 27-28 November. As the name suggests, the

invited people were the presidents or representatives of EFPA member organisations. As

EFPSA is an affiliate member of EFPA, EFPSA president Priit Tinits took part in the

meeting as well.

Despite a much larger official agenda, the meeting focused on one topic: the European

common psychologist certificate EuroPsy and its implementation. EuroPsy has started

as a pilot project in some countries such as Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, andUnited Kingdom. The participants of the meeting evaluated the process and discussed

possible drawbacks. If you are interested in EuroPsy in your country, visit

www.efpa.eu/europsy. EFPSA is also planning to release a special EuroPsy newsletter to

introduce this concept to students.

The event proved to be valuable for EFPSA also in another perspective. Taking place just

before the opening of the congress registration, the meeting was a good opportunity to

promote EFPSA and the Congress. This was especially beneficial for EFPA member

countries that are not yet EFPSA members. Expressing concerns about their countries not

being active in EFPSA, the representatives provided EFPSA with contacts of students toestablish a connection. This was highly successful as some of those countries showed

exceptionally high number of applications for the EFPSA Congress compared to earlier

years.

IFISO MeetingIFISO or the Informal Forum of

International Student Organisations

is a platform for student organisations

to exchange ideas. This winters

meeting took place in December in

Calabria, Italy. EFPSA was

represented by the president, Priit

Tinits, and the National

Representatives coordinator, Mariliin

Saar. Aside from EFPSA, a number of organisations were represented, varying from their

scope, as well as goal orientation. AEGEE, Erasmus Student Network, Erasmus Mundus

Association, also the organisations of pharmacy students, forestry students, and

geography students joined the IFISO.

NR coordinator Mariliin Saar, EFPSA president PriitTinits, second and third from the left


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EFPSA's benefit of taking part in the forum was evident. The discussions provided useful

and quick tips to improve work for EFPSA. For example, communication issues wereaddressed with new and simple solutions. Broader cooperation ideas also appeared, also to

have inter-organisational meetings for people with specific tasks like fundraising or

trainers. The idea of setting up a training system within EFPSA also got an impulse from

the forum.

The new mandate of Board of Management and Executive Board are also likely to have

the chance of benefiting from IFISOs next meeting which is about to take place by the

end of Spring.

Friends of EFPSA

We are happy to announce that EFPSA made a first Friend the Finnish

Psychological Association (http://www.psyli.fi)! For those of you that do not know about

the Friends of EFPSAproject, let us explain.

Through the Friends of EFPSAproject, organizations can benefit from EFPSAs extensive

student support base in return of a monetary donation. Organizations which becomeEFPSAs friend, will be linked to on the EFPSA website, will receive our annual report,

and will receive up to date information about what is happening in EFPSA. By being in

contact with EFPSA, organizations will become better known by students and receive

more support from students for their services and events. This in turn is likely to increase

their number of potential future members for their own organization.

We would like to thank the Finnish Psychological Association for their interest in EFPSA

and their good will to become our friend! EFPSA appreciates this friendship and will

cherish it in the future. Also, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Sami Rman,

the Finish National Representative, who helped to settle this first EFPSA friendship.

All of you who feel like helping EFPSA expand its list of friends; please contact

[email protected] for more information and an application form. EFPSA thanks you in

advance!


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call for Congress 2012 hosting countryThe legendary annual EFPSA congress is almost here. We're all excited to meet

again at this wonderful EFPSA event in

the Netherlands. 2011 will take us to

Poland and 2012 to.... your homeland?

This is your chance to write a passage to

EFPSA's colourful history. Apply to host

the 26th congress in 2012, use your skills

to come up with a fascinating topic, great

team and organise the grand event thatmakes you and all the psychology

students around Europe smile.

Let the Secretary General ([email protected]) know about your wish to be a candidate

for 2012 congress location and then present your ideas at the General Assembly in the

congress 2010 in the Netherlands. We are looking forward to visiting you!

Executive Board applicationsThis is your chance to take actively part in shaping EFPSA and its services. Apply

to help students start their exchange semester, to run the EFPSA webpage, to be the

secretary for EFPSA or to

provide students with the great

networking and travelling

service called the Travel

Network. Join the Executive

Board to practice your

persuasion skills by findingEFPSA sponsors, master your

research and writing skills in

applying for grants or take the

challenge to become a member

of the editorial board for the

first European scientific journal

for students - JEPS. And these are just some of the possible ways to participate in EFPSA

more actively.

EFPSA Executive Board & National Representatives in Anamur,Turkey


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Keep your eyes and ears open - the Executive Board (EB) teams will be looking for

new members to their teams in the annual congress. Those with even more courage - youare welcome to run for the senior positions of the EB. The call for Executive Board

positions will be released on March 18th. If you have any questions about the EB positions,

contact the team you are interested in, or the Secretary General. Contact details can be

found on the website. Looking forward to many new enthusiastic colleagues!

Therapy Sites

Great news for our students and wired psychologists who prefer to focus on their

profession and want to leave the rest in good hands! TherapySites is the new collaborator

of EFPSA! TherapySites specializes in creating websites designed for therapists that are

professional, affordable, and effective. All you pay is a monthly hosting fee of $59/month

with no long-term contracts. They deliver credit card processing, appointment requests,

search engine optimization, and more - it's all included! Attracting new clients and

generating more revenue is easy with TherapySites! If you visit this site and provide a

promo code of "EFPSA", you will receive one month of free service with TherapySites,

additional to the 30 days money-back guarantee trial.

Get started now on www.TherapySites.com!

EFPSA miscellaneous

The first e-voting in EFPSA's history in November brought us new Financialauditors: Aart Franken and Tiina Kalda.

The National Representatives agreed that in 2011, the participants of the 25th

annual EFPSA Congress will be greeted with cze, as Poland will host the awaited

event for the first time. The organisers have promised intriguing lectures and

workshops accompanied by a wonderful scenery.

The second most important event for the Executive Board and National

Representatives will take place in Slovenia, where all those working for EFPSA

will assemble for the EB-NR meeting in autumn 2010.

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