The General Assembly of the European Association for Solar Telescopes has met today in Brussels.
One of the main points of the agenda was the election of the the president and vice-president. Mats Carlsson from Oslo University and Oskar von der Lühe from the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik were respectively confirmed in their positions. The Assembly also got an overview of the H2020 projects SOLARNET (just started in January), GREST (finished by mid of 2018), and PRE-EST (on going).
The European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST) was founded in 2006 by a group of solar physicists from 14 European countries. Three more countries have joined after that, and today in the Brussels meeting, the General Assembly approved Portugal as the country member number 18.
For more details, see EAST.