Special thanks should be extended to the Dental School in Ljubljana and the Local Organizing Committee for offering to host this important event in the beautiful city of Ljubljana. Dear Nikola, Vid, Darjan, Matej, Andrea, Petra, Nina, Mineja, Veronika, Neja, Bojan, Ziva, and others, thank you for your constant efforts to make our stay extraordinary. We definitely had a wonderful time!

During the EDSA General Assembly many important decisions were made and reports were presented.  EDSA Executive Committee is absolutely thrilled to have so many active Delegates and running projects.

We sincerely hope the collaboration that started with IADS will be everlasting and the Volunteer Work project in Ghana will gather a huge attendance and be of an encouragement for the young students.

EDSA is happy to announce that Georgia’s application for full EDSA Membership was accepted. Congratulations to all Georgian dental students and welcome to the big EDSA family!

We would like also to congratulate the new Honorary Lifetime Member of EDSA- Mr. Daire Shanahan, Past Treasurer, contributor to the Association for many years, who keeps the EDSA spirit alive!

The Alumni Certificates of Appreciation were granted to Dieuwertje Kuin (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Alba Torrado Varela (Santiago De Compostela, Spain) and Zana Sejfija (Pristhina, Kosovo). Thank you very much for your active involvement!

Dear Honorary Lifetime and Alumni members, EDSA will be looking forward to seeing you in one of the upcoming Meetings!

Election for the venue of the 47^th EDSA Meeting in Spring 2011 took place and we are delighted to announce that Leeds, UK seized the opportunity to host it! We wish the Local Organizing Committee good luck during the preparation period!

Election for Web Editor Mar-Aug 09 also took place and we are proud to announce that Sebastian Scarlat from Bucharest, Romania is the new EDSA Web Editor. The newly elected Volunteer Work Officer is Lucy Monk from Cardiff, Wales, the Prevention Program Officer is Ana Stevanovic from Nis, Serbia, Iannis Zogakis, Thessaloniki, Greece was appointed Partnership Officer for the specialties organizations, Stephen Kebke from Stockholm, Sweden, Partnership Officer for dental companies and Aleksandar Jakovljevič, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina is going to be in charge of the potential
projects with the E.U.

Congratulations, guys, and have a successful, brilliant work!

Dear Delegates, we would really appreciate if each one of you could join one of the Working Groups and give your full support to those programs and projects!

After the 43^rd EDSA Meeting, the Executive Committee had an Evaluation meeting and we would like to announce the decisions made in order to improve the structure of the meetings and make them more efficient!

1. The Executive Committee is going to produce Pre-Minutes two weeks before the Meeting, which are going to include all Executive Committee members’ reports, Working groups' reports, Country Delegates reports and Letters of Apology! In other words, all Working Group Officers and Delegates have to submit their reports to the Executive Committee two weeks in advance!
2. Country Delegates’ reports should include only information about EDSA activities! All other dental students activities that are taking place on local level could be presented in “Other Matters” or “EDSA activities on national level” points of the General Assembly Agenda. 
3. EDSA General Secretary has to be notified for all presentations that are going to be held during the EDSA Meeting. Those presentations have to be sent two weeks in advance to the Executive Committee!
4. Presentation duration during the EDSA General Assembly is limited to 8-10 min, followed by 5 min discussion. The timetable is going to be strictly followed!
5. EDSA Delegates will receive a notification two weeks in advance about all matters that are going to be voted on during the General Assembly.
6. EDSA General Secretary is going to send the Preliminary Agenda of the General Assembly 1 month before the Meeting. All supplementary points could be added up to two weeks before the Meeting. Everything else could be added during “Adoption of the Agenda” point during the first Session of the General Assembly.
7. Apologies of Absence have to be sent to the EDSA General Secretary two weeks before the Meeting and they are going to be included in the Pre-Minutes and the Minutes. No letter of Apology is going to be read out load.
8. EDSA Executive Committee members are going to present one combined report as a PowerPoint presentation during the first Session of the General Assembly. The separate reports are going to be placed in the Pre-Minutes and Minutes.
9. EDSA Working Groups are going to present one combined report as a PowerPoint presentation during the first Session of the General Assembly. The separate reports are going to be placed in the Pre-Minutes and Minutes.
10. EDSA Executive Committee is going to send reports through the Yahoo! and Facebook groups once a month, which will include all current matters that the Office is working on.

As a result, we hope that the General Assembly in Helsinki is going to be much more productive and better structured.