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WORKING GROUPS

Purpose

The main task of WGs is to facilitate collaboration on specific projects within their field of expertise.

 

Composition

A Working Group (WG) is a group of members within one of the existing Sections of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), who are working on similar fields of scientific expertise and who wish to collaborate and exchange ideas on specific projects and methodological issues. Each Section member may belong to several WGs.

 

Creation

For new WGs, a proposal should be made to the Chairman of the Section, supported by a minimum of 5 ESICM Ordinary and International members, who are willing to join the new Working Group. This proposal will then be presented to the Section members. The Section will then decide, either per written vote (fax, letter or email) or in the next Section meeting.

After approval by the Section, the names of the WGs will be submitted to the ESICM Division of Scientific Affairs and communicated to the ESICM office. Each WG will nominate (in case of one candidate) or elect (in case of more candidates) a Head. The term of the head of the WG is three years, renewable once.

 

Duties

It is the duty of the WGs to help the Chairman of the Section to maintain an appropriate body of abstract reviewers for the ESICM Annual Congresses.

Each WG may propose, each year, thematic sessions for the Annual Congress, derived from their specific work.

  • WGs may request a meeting room during the Annual Congress and during other meetings where ESICM meetings take place. The results of these WG meetings have to be reported formally to the Section within two weeks.
  • WGs do not represent their parent Sections.
  • WGs should inform the Chairman of their own Section when they develop collaborations with other Sections or WGs to avoid competition or duplication of effort on similar issues. Collaboration with other associations should be reported as well.
  • Research projects originated from WGs should apply to ECCRN endorsement, com-pleting the ECCRN conditions for endorsement.

If a WG fails to report its activities for two consecutive meetings, it will not be longer viewed as a WG, and its extinction communicated to the Division of Scientific Affairs and the ESICM office.