| Subject: | Letter on behalf of the IEWG Chair - invitation to a virtual IEWG meeting |
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| Date: | Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:12 -0400 |
| From: | Nedko Krumov <nedko.krumov@egmont.org> |
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**Letter on behalf of the IEWG Chair**
Dear IEWG members,
Dear Colleagues,
We hope this e-mail finds you well in these extraordinary times.
The current year is significantly influenced by COVID-19 and this year's Egmont meetings in Oaxaca, Mexico has to give way to a virtual alternative. This of course also applies to the corresponding IEWG working group meeting, which usually takes place before the plenary session and was planned for July 6th and 7th, 2020.
In order to at least partially ensure business continuity and the usual course of the Egmont meeting week, the IEWG Chair intends to schedule a shortened IEWG working group meeting on July 6th, 2020.
The main topics for discussion during the meeting include:
1. Finalisation of ongoing projects and other important project updates
2. Discussion and approval of the new IEWG Business Plan 2020 - 2021 (including new projects)
3. ESW update
4. Any other business.
It is expected that the meeting duration will be 3 hours with one 30 minutes break in between sessions. Further details about the technology to be used for the virtual meeting, the exact hours of the meeting, as well as detailed agenda, will be provided in due course.
By conducting a virtual session, we are entering into technical territory rather unknown to Egmont, so we would like to arrange a test event before the actual meeting in order to enable everyone to ensure that the connection to the virtual meeting works. More information about this and all other relevant organisational topics will follow shortly.
All necessary documents for the meeting will be uploaded to ESW (IEWG Community page) prior to the meeting.
We very much hope that many of you will be able to participate despite the unusual meeting format and look forward to seeing you virtually in July!
Kind regards,
EGS