The Annual General Meeting – AGM is the Association’s highest decision-making organ which elects the Board of WINNET Europe consisting of the president, eight full members and eight proxies. The President of WINNET Europe Ms.Britt-Marie S Torstensson was elected at the AGM on the 29th of January 2007 in Brussels. The Association’s Secretariat is in Gävle, Sweden. The work of the Association is assisted by Central Sweden’s regional office in Brussels. The Association is managed with the assistance of the Secretariat and the virtual office in WINNET Europes innovative network portal - www.winneteurope.eu - serving as a communication platform between the members of the Association and the European Commission and its institutions and other global, national, regional and local stakeholders. The work of the WINNET Europe Association is assisted by a Scientific and Political Advisory Committee which consists of 50 % national, regional and local politicians from the EU Member States and 50 % researchers. Britt-Marie S Torstensson President WINNET Europe