The Federal Council - FICE International
The Roles and Functions of the Federal Council
The Federal Council serves as the Board of Directors for FICE International and is the main forum for governance, planning and policy.
Statutes and Rules of Procedure
The Federal Council works in accordance with FICE's Statutes and Rules of Procedure, which can be found in a separate section of the website.
The Honorary Officers of the Federal Council
- President
- Monika Niederle, Austria
- Chair of the General Assembly, Federal Council and Executive Committee meetings. Responsible for overall leadership and management of FICE-International, and external representation in particular.
- Secretary General
- Andrew Hosie, Scotland
- Responsible for the internal running of FICE and the work of its secretariat.
- Treasurer
- Rolf Widmer, Switzerland
- Responsible for FICE's financial policies and the maintenance of the accounts.
- Vice President
- Martti Kemppainen, Finland
- Responsible for extending FICE membership in the Baltic and former USSR.
- Vice President
- David Lane, England & Wales
- Responsible for a variety of projects.
- Vice President
- Anton Tobe, Netherlands
- Responsible for South Eastern Europe.
- Vice President
- Daniel Vidaud, France
- Secretariat
- Famke Schiff , The Netherlands
Administration
The Federal Council is serviced by staff from the President's agency.
Members of the Federal Council
Each Full National Member may send two delegates to each Federal Council meeting. Obviously representatives change but some members have attended consistently over many years. Typically, meetings are attended by about forty or fifty delegates from about thirty countries.
Each of the members are listed below.
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[ P=President; S= secretary; V-P=vice president; G=office; P=private ]
- Honorary President
- Theo Binnendijk
- Austria
- Otmar Mittermayr
- Belgium
- J.M. Jusniaux (f) (P)
- J.C. Bogaert (f) (V-P)
- Bulgaria
- Association for pedagogical and social help FICE
- Daschenka Taschkova (P) (d)
- Rumiana Jekova (S) (e)
- Canada
- James P. Anglin (e)
- Croatia (Associated member)
- Boris Hudina (e) (P)
- Antonija Zizak (e) (S)
- University of Zagreb
- Czech Republic
- Herr Jiri Hart (d) (P)
- Karel Keller (f,d) (S)
- Denmark
- Soren Hegstrup (e) (P)
- Troels Lohmann (e) (V-P)
- Susanne Dossing (S)
- England-Wales
- Sally Bamsey
- Estonia
- Sirje Grossmann-Loot (e) (P)
- Elmar Nurmela (P)
- Alar Tamm
- Finland
- Central Union for Child Welfare in Finland
- Mr. Jouni Kerppoli (P)
- Martti Kemppainen (e) (S)
- Sari Laaksonen (e) (PEP-coordinator)
- France (Associated member 07–09-2004)
- Le Réseau National des Communautés Educatives
- Gilles Cervera (f) (P)
- Alain Amate (f) (S)
- Alexis Chirokoff (f) (T)
- J.L. Patenotte (Communcation)
- Germany
- Internationale Gesellfschaft für erzieherische Hilfen
- Hans Ullrich Krause (d) (P)
- Josef Koch (d) (S)
- Katrin Schröter (Official Advisor)
- Nicole Janze (Official Advisor) / Xenia Spernau
- Hungary
- Dr. Julia Blumenfeld (e) (P)
- Lŕszlň Csňkay (d) (S)
- Lehóczkyné Kalavé Edit (head of the S)
- Judith Cseres
- India
- Malay Dewanji (e) (S)
- Israel
- IRECA (Israeli Residential Education & Care Association)
- Dr. Emmanuel Grupper (P)
- Shaul Elbaz (S)
- Zvi Hoizlich (V-P)
- Haim Zamorski (T)
- Italy
- Eleonora Vanni(f) (P), Full Member
- Luigi Majno (e) (P), Associate Member
- Luxembourg
- Association nationale des Communautés Educatives (ANCE)
- Robert Soisson (d/f/e) (P)
- Paul Demaret (f) (S)
- Fernand Liégeois (d) (T)
- Marocco
- Hassan Boutaleb (f)
- The Netherlands
- Anton Tobé (P)
- Wim J.J.M. Kok (d) (S)
- Poland
- Wieslaw Kolak (d) (P)
- Jaroslaw Utrat-Milecki (e) (S)
- Jolanta Marszycka-Suchecka (e) (V-P)
- Zofia Bucholc (d) (S)
- Romania
- Toma Mares (f) (P)
- Alexeanu Buttu Marinela (f) (S)
- Ionel Marineci (f) (V-P)
- Simona Farcas
- Russia
- Albert Likhanov (e) (P)
- Emilia Chervinskaya
- Scotland
- Jennifer Davidson
- Andrew Hosie
- Republic of Slovakia
- International Society of the Educative Communities
- Ph.Dr. Jana Svetikova (d) (P)
- Ph.Dr. Albín Škoviera (V-P)
- Lucia Takácová (T)
- Mária Kozlíková (S)
- Slovenia
- Mitja Krajncan (P) (d)
- Alenka Kobolt
- South Africa
- Francisco Cornelius
- Merle Allsopp (S)
- South East Europe
- Sena Druzic
- Emira Tatarevic, FICE Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Zeljka Burgund, FICE Serbia
- Galaba Zlatkova Gareska, FICE Macedonia
- Gojko Popovic, FICE Montenegro
- Adela Hadziomerovic
- Sweden
- Hans Haker (e) (S)
- Switzerland
- Rolf Widmer (T)
- Roland Stübi (d)
- Suzanne Widmer (d)
- United States
- Dr. Carol S. Kelly (e) (s)
- Dennis W. Felty (e)
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The meetings are listed with the most-recent first.
| Date | Place | Country | CF / CE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2004 | Glasgow | Scotland | CF | |
| May 2004 | Plovdiv | Bulgaria | CE/CF | |
| January 2004 | Amsterdam | Holland | CE | |
| October 2003 | Roskilde | Denmark | CE/CF | |
| July 2003 | Amsterdam | Holland | CE | |
| April 2003 | Moscow | Russia | CE/CF | |
| January 2003 | Paris | France | CE | |
| September 2002 | Berlin | Germany | CE / CF | |
| April 2002 | Budapest | Hungary | CE / CF | |
| February 2002 | Paris | France | CE and Task Force | |
| November 2001 | Amsterdam | Holland | ||
| October 2001 | Bucharest | Romania | CF | |
| February 2001 | Trogen | Switzerland |