EDEN Annual Meetings

EDEN hosts an annual meeting every year. The meeting is hosted by a member institution and rotates yearly by region. The delegates meet annually, usually in the fall. EDEN delegates and Extension professionals attend and give presentations or posters that add to the professional development and educational programming of the meeting.

The EDEN annual meeting for 2010 will be  held in Kentucky. More details for the 2010 meeting will be shared at this year’s annual meeting.

In the normal rotation for the location for the EDEN annual meeting, the 2011 annual meeting should be hosted by the west.   The rumor mill has generated some potential sites for the 2011 annual meeting, but we should begin to be serious and consider identifying potential sites for the 2011 meeting.

There is a lot of experience available to assist with the job of hosting an annual meeting.  The annual meeting committee will assist a host site in coordinating an annual meeting.  The EDEN Chair elect will have the responsibility of putting the program together with the help of the annual meeting committee. You’ll have lots of help.

Institutions from the west region that are interested in hosting the meeting are asked to  send a one-page proposal to the EDEN chair. The proposal should explain the member institution’s hosting capabilities as outlined in the EDEN Annual Meeting Responsibilities document on the EDEN Intranet.

If we have multiple interest, there will be a selection process. 

Please discuss this with the delegates from your state, and let us know if you are interested in hosting the 2011 EDEN annual meeting in your state.  It would be nice to have information to share at this year’s meeting in Indianapolis.  We will make a selection if we have proposals submitted, so don’t wait to see if someone else steps up to the opportunity! You may miss your opportunity!  If you really want to plan ahead, the 2012 meeting should be held in the Northeast and if you are interested in  hosting that meeting, it is not too early to begin thinking about it, or even submit a proposal for consideration.