Activity report
2001 JAOS General-Meeting: Autumn
December 13 & 14 December 2001
at Hakone-Fujiya Hotel
The 2001 Annual Autumn General-Meeting was attended by 20 participants from 24 member organizations, among which, 6 organizations participated via absentee vote. During the two-day session, annual activity reports concerning JAOS were presented along with an explanation of JAOS’ new organizational structure. The new operating structure consists of the following ‘Task Teams’: – ‘JAOS Standardized Agreement’ Task Team – ‘Member Recruitment’ Task Team – ‘ERA’ Task Team – ‘Member Support’ Task Team Each ‘Task Team’ consists of a ‘chief’ and one additional staff member. Furthermore, updated reports concerning international overseas study business trends were presented on the following subjects: – Federation of Educational and Language Consulting Association (FELCA). – French Norm of France. – European Norm led by the German organization CEN (Center of European Network) represented within 25 countries. – Business trends within the study abroad industry of Europe, where the practice of industry codification is greatly increasing.