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Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) Secretariat, Chairs and Vice-Chair

http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/SubmitedFiles/11_2012/123432.jpegBetween 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2015, the Secretariat of the Bologna Follow-up Group is held by Armenia, as organiser of the next 2015 EHEA Ministerial Conference. 
The team representing the Armenian Bologna Follow-Up Group Secretariat includes eight permanent members, who are committed to the mission of ensuring professional and neutral support to further the consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), under the exclusive authority of the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) and its Co-Chairs and Vice-Chair.
The central task of the Bologna  Follow-Up Group Secretariat is to support the work of the Bologna Follow-up Group, within all BFUG sub-structures. The Secretariat provides first draft agendas for BFUG meetings for decision by the BFUG Chairs on which items are to be included for discussion. The Secretariat also plays a significant role in drafting official documents within the European Higher Education Area and provides background discussion documents, liaising with relevant authors as appropriate.
The Secretariat circulates the invitation, agenda and relevant papers for BFUG, Board and working groups/ networks meetings. It provides to the participants information on practical arrangements for meetings in consultation with the Chairs, and, during meetings can take responsibility for practical arrangements in cooperation with the hosts, if necessary. The Secretariat drafts the minutes of BFUG/ Board and working groups/ network meetings for clearance by the Chairs and circulates them for comments and subsequent adoption by BFUG/Board at the next meeting.
Another task of the Secretariat that has become increasingly important is to provide up-to-date and reliable information about the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (for both a European and a non-European audience) and to maintain an electronic EHEA archive. To fulfil those functions, the Secretariat maintains the permanent European Higher Education Area website (www.ehea.info), ensuring that up to date information is made available at all times for the BFUG and to the wider public.
While the Chair of the Bologna Process rotates every six months, the Secretariat provides continuity in following the implementation of the agreed BFUG work plan between consecutive EHEA Ministerial meetings.
The Secretariat carries on its activities in close communication with the BFUG through its official representatives (Chairs, Vice-Chairs, Chairs of the Working Groups/Networks) and rests exclusively on their guidance and the mandate given by the BFUG for direction setting in the preparation work.
Composition of the Armenian Bologna Follow-Up Group Secretariat:
Head of the Secretariat: 

            Gayane
        Harutyunyan
         bio note
Members of the Secretariat:
                                        
  Sahakanush            Hayk                         Edgar                  Ani                         Ani 
     Sargsyan            Sargsyan                Harutyunyan        Hakobyan                  Hovhannisyan
   bio note                    bio note               bio note                bio note               bio note         

        
  Marta                             Astghik
Simonyan                    Karakhanyan
 Bio note                    Bio note
http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/SubmitedFiles/11_2012/123432.jpegBFUG Chairs and Vice-Chair
With the Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve Communiqué the Ministers decided that in the future, the Bologna Process would be co-chaired by the country holding the EU presidency and a non-EU country. To put this decision into practice, the Bologna Follow-up Group at its meeting in Stockholm on 28-29 September 2009 agreed:
• to treat the EU Presidency and the non-EU country as two chairs (rather than as chair and co-chair) to signal very clearly that the Bologna Process will be chaired on equal footing by the EU Presidency and a non-EU country.
• to leave it to each chairing team to define the exact division of tasks between the two chairs and the vice chair(s)
• to start the new chairing arrangement on 1 July 2010.
• to apply the alphabetical order when designating the chair from a non-EU country.
• to adjust the composition of the BFUG Board by replacing the three elected members with the outgoing, present and incoming non-EU chairs.
This will result in the following chairing arrangement up to the next Ministerial Meeting in 2012, at the occasion of which the arrangement should be evaluated and further established for the period until the following Ministerial Meeting in 2015.
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