EFG Workshop and Council meeting, Palermo, Italy, 29 May – 1 June 2014

On 29 and 30 May the Italian National Council of Geologists (CNG) in collaboration with the European Federation of Geologists organised in Palermo the International Workshop on “Geologists of Europe in the 3rd millennium”. The Workshop venue was the Norman Palace, seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The workshop intended to be an open forum on current state of the geological profession for the various national organisations repres enting the profession within the European Federation of Geologists. The workshop program of the first day was covered by relevant speakers and closing ceremony of the workshop were honoured by the presence of regional authorities of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The second day a visit to the Arabian Palermo was organised presenting an extensive underground cultural and naturalistic heritage, due to both human and karst activity. The presentations given will shortly be available on the EFG website. Subsequent to the workshop, EFG celebrated its annual summer Council meeting at the Museum of Modern Art of Palermo. During the meeting Vice – President Nieves Sánchez and Secretary General Domenico Calcaterra were re-elected for another two year term. Moreover, EFG is glad to welcome two new members, the Polish Association of Mineral Asset Valuators (http://www.polval.pl) and the Czech Association of Economic Geologists (CAEG) (http://www.calg.cz/).