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Bylaws to the Statutes of Cohehre
1. Membership
The different categories of membership are:
Regular member
Regular membership will be given to European institutes of higher education that provide at least two different full-time programmes in health, rehabilitation and/or social care.
Member LIC (belonging to a lower income country) based on the ‘World Bank list low income countries Europe’*
Trial member
Trial membership offers an institution the possibility to be part of Cohehre for one year, after this trial year they can become regular member
* The countries considered as low income countries based on the World Bank list low income countries Europe are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Turkey.
Full members of COHEHRE are entitled to:
- Participate in the annual conference and workshops
- Vote in the General Assembly
- Nominate representatives of Cohehre member institutes
for the Presidency, the Consortium Council, the Audit- and
the Nomination Committee
- Be nominated for the Presidency, the Consortium Council,
the Audit- and the Nomination committee
The Consortium Council is authorised to accept new full
members.
All members are expected to:
- Appoint a contact person and an alternate whose
duties are the following:
- Provide the administrative office with the name and address details of the people within the institution who should be on the mailing list of Cohehre
- Disseminate all relevant Cohehre information within
his or her institute and visa versa.
- Comply with the rules and regulations as stated in
the Statutes and Bylaws of Cohehre
- Pay the annual fee
- Participate in and contribute to the work of Cohehre
and its sections
2. General Assembly
Members may propose to the Council items for the agenda
for the General Assembly up to 90 days before the meeting.
The proposed items should be in accordance with the competencies
as specified in article 7 of the Statutes.
The General assembly is an open meeting, accessible for
representatives of every Cohehre member institution.
For decision making in the General Assembly, a set of voting
cards is available for every full member institute. Only
one representative per full member is entitled to vote.
3. Election of Consortium officers
Nominating Committee
A Nominating Committee prepares the elections of the president,
the other Consortium Council members and of a Financial Auditor.
The Nominating Committee consists of three representatives
of full members from different countries represented in
Cohehre. The General Assembly elects the members of the
Committee for the period of two years.
Members of the Nominating Committee can be re-elected for
a maximum of two such periods. Members of the Nominating
Committee cannot at the same time be members of the Consortium
Council. One of the Committee members should function as
the convenor of the Committee meetings.
At every General Assembly it would be announced which posts
of the Consortium Council and of Auditors are due for election
the following year. The character of the working tasks related
to the different vacant posts would be presented at the
same time.
Consortium Council
Members of the Consortium Council should be elected from
different countries, with a maximum of two from the same
country.
All members of the Consortium have the right to propose
candidates to the Nominating Committee up to 30 days before
the General Assembly. The Nominating Committee can itself
propose nominees, if the members of the Consortium have
not proposed enough candidates to the vacant posts up until the day
before the General Assembly.
The Nominating Committee should propose nominees for the
Consortium Council to the General Assembly and inform all
members about their proposals not later then the day before
the meeting.
Auditors
The auditing of the Consortium should be carried out on
the basis of established auditing principles. The auditor
should present an auditing report signed by him or her at the
General Assembly. All accounts and other written material
of the Consortium Board should be made available to the
auditors.
One auditor and a substitute should be
proposed by the Nominating Committee and elected by the
General Assembly for a period of two years.
Auditors and their substitutes can be re-elected for a maximum
of two such periods. The auditor cannot at the same time be a member of the
Consortium Board.
The Nominating Committee should propose candidate Auditors
to the General Assembly and inform all members about their
proposals not later then the day before the meeting.
Election procedures
The General Assembly decides on each of the nominees
proposed by the Nominating Committee, with a simple majority
of the members present and represented.
In case there are more nominees for the same position,
the nominee who collects the largest number of votes will
be elected.
4. Working groups
Working Groups are established by the General Assembly
on proposal of the Consortium Council.
For each of these groups the Consortium Council will appoint
a chair.
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