International Board
Final words from the International Board 2009/2010
„Carried by a network of driven people”
Charles Millhuff said that many of life‘s circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey. Whether it started off as a matter of choice or destiny, the International Board 2009/2010 lived ELSA for one year – the most memorable year of our lives. What was discipline for us? It was the determination to strive towards our goals as a team and as individuals. We brought our experience and our visions together as individuals, and we grew up as a team with a motto – One board, one desire. The desire was to achieve our goals, act professionally and always give the best of oneself. As we have experienced, a year of living ELSA is not a race towards the end, but a mosaic full of memories, great people, professionalism, battles and laughters. It is a joyride. As a team our board pointed out what was the focus in each of our areas of activities. We wanted more of legal writing, a successful edition of EMC2, legal research groups, a variety of events and study visits, improving ELSA delegations, following up on the IFP topic, making sure that we exchange as many students and traineeships worldwide providing quality, improving the communication in the Network and the ITP system,
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and making sure that the ELSA brand lives through Synergy and the website, making sure that finances are in order and exploring possibilities for grants, taking care about the newly established ELSA Development Foundation and developing our external contacts and being a leading team of professionals. Of course all these pieces of the puzzle called the One Year Operational Plan were in line with the Strategic Goals of our association. How did we choose the people to be with? Simply we didn’t. It was the choice of the International Council in Budva, Montenegro in spring 2009. Each of the individuals brought their culture, experience and personalities to the stage. Together we met our own strengths and weaknesses and as a result we learned to live and work as a team and not just next to each other. We appreciate the advice and example that the previous International Boards gave us, and in addition, we were supported by two people we owe a lot. Our great ITP trainers Karina Sultanova and Pierangelo Grazziani helped us to confront our personalities and to learn about ourselves and about our new family. There is one essential thing in living in a team – success of one is a success of the team. This success was not done by us alone, but we had the pleasure
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