• The EOQ President, Mr. Viktor Seitschek, has got on May 11, 2010, the most important Austrian decoration for the accomplishments of his entire professional life, the “Gold Decoration of Honour for services to the Republic of Austria”.

  This decoration is the most important national honor, which is assigned at present in Austria. It is conferred to honor people (from Austria and abroad) who have rendered meritorious services to the country in all areas, particularly in political, economic, cultural, mental or also honorary area. The assignment takes place via the Federal President of Austria or in his name, through an important official.

• On March 11, 2010 Quality Austria organizes in the Salzburg Congress Centre the 16th Quality Forum, with an exciting topic: “The power of confidence”.

• 24th of September  2010 - 25 years Flemish Quality Management Centre - Reception and Dinner at the City Hall of Antwerp 
• 7th & 8th of October, 2010 - 23rd Flanders Quality Conference
• 26th of November, 2010 - Annual Quality event with awards:
  - Business Excellence manager of the year
  - K2 awards
  - Quality Club Flanders awards

• The Cyprus Association for Quality (CyAQ) participated as a project partner at the project Six Sigma and the Cyprus Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs).  The project enabled organizations to develop custom-made process efficiencies and to strengthen the competitiveness in basic sectors of the economy.

• The President of the Federation of Regional Associations of the French Movement for Quality (FAR/MFQ) invites to the Ceremony of handing-over of the French Price for Quality & Performance to be held in Paris on March 22nd, 2010.

You may find detailed information on the FAR/MFQ website.

• The German Society for Quality (DGQ) launched on its website in April 2010 a press release "Marketing of our activities - image formation", by presenting the current techical activities of the EOQ and its member organizations: "The European Organization for Quality (EOQ), Brussels, realizes at present a targeted development and international harmonization of the requirements for quality technical personnel. The long-term goal is the international recognition by the national accreditation bodies. To this end, the EOQ cooperates with the European Accreditation (EA) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF)."

• Thinking in terms of QUALIY, COMPETITIVENESS and CRISIS MANAGEMENT and similarly to the previous years, timely and important thematics as well as practicable methods will be presented at the Conference. Venue: Hotel Frida Family, Balatonvilágos (close to Lake Balaton), Hungary. About 300 Quality Experts and guests are expected from home and abroad
• The traditional 19th HUNGARIAN QUALITY WEEK will be hosted jointly by the EOQ Hungarian National Committee and the Hungarian Society for Quality on 24 November 2010 in Budapest. A series of conferences will be held on the timely quality issues and also annual Quality Awards will be presented. Several hundred Quality Experts and visitors are expected from home and abroad

• The recently gathered EOQ membership, as National Representative Organization, of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has been presented in detail in the weekly newsletter of the organization of July 9-th, 2010.

• The 12th November (World Quality Day) NFKR, the EOQ NR organization from Norway, is hosting the Autumn Congress at Bristol Hotel in Oslo, Norway. This is the second year this Conference is conducted. It is expected that 150 Quality and Risk Managers will attend.

• Mr. Olav Finsnes succeeds Mr. Haavard Martinsen that has served impressive 7 terms as our President from the start up in 2003.  Mr. Finsnes  was the main initiator of NFKR in 2003, he is a long time senior and well known contributor  in the Quality and Risk community in Norway. Also, he was the organizer of NFKR’s relation to EOQ and has been the NFKR and QMCe delegate in PRU since 2005 where you already met his engagement.
• The Norwegian Society for Quality and Risk Management (NFKR) organizes in Oslo, 17-18 June, 2010 the annual Quality Conference. The two profiled conference themes this year are Corporate Social Responsibility and Integrated Management System.

• The theme of CSTIC 2010 will be “ICT Management: Quality and Sustainability”. You can get more information about it in the official web site of the Spanish Association for Quality.

Motto: "A Heritage for the Future: Quality"

Important speakers and lectures

To further strengthen and broaden EIPA’s expertise on Quality Management consultancy and training, the Unit European Public Management in Maastricht has a vacancy for Senior Lecturer/Consultant (F/M), full-time position.
If you are interested in this position, please apply directly online via the apply button (Vacancy number V0132) before 1 September 2010. The applications should be written in English or French. It is preferred that applicants use the format of the Europass curriculum vitae, to be downloaded via http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/.

For more information you can contact Ms Nicole
Pletzers of the Personnel Department at +31 43 32 96 358 or n.pletzers@eipa.eu.

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This site is open for job search for persons having a valid EOQ certificate.

For the opportunity to place your job search online, please contact EOQ or directly the EOQ Director General, Dr. Eric Janssens. Please add your up-dated CV. 

For specific information you may visit http://www.qm-infocenter.de/qz