Insight by Christof Crone, Chair of the Secretaries General Committee of FEDIMA.
Read it also in Fedima's 2023/2024 Annual Report.
The strength of an association lies in the sense of community and collaboration between its members. The Fedima community is based on horizontal collaboration, the sharing of best practices, and ensuring open and regular communication with our national member associations.
This year in particular saw a great ambition to bring our members even closer by bringing together the Secretaries General of our national associations, powering up the Secretaries General Committee that was already in place as an advisory body within Fedima.
The purpose of the powered-up Secretaries Generals Committee is to provide a forum to discuss national associations’ realities in the face of the current challenges for our sector and to coordinate on policy priorities in a year where Europe is hit by an unprecedented wave of national elections, other than the European elections. It is of great importance to have a dedicated space for the Secretaries General of Fedima members, as it creates an avenue of thematic discussion on specific issues that national associations wish to put on the agenda of the Federation.
I am honoured to have been elected by my esteemed colleagues as the first Chair of the revived Secretaries General Committee and I look forward to representing the Committee and its suggestions at the Fedima Board.
I encourage all my fellow Secretaries General to join our meetings as they will enable them to be directly involved in the actions of Fedima and propose topics and issues that are close to their priorities. This type of discussion is crucial for Fedima to better align its activities with the needs of its members.