With a view to encouraging increased interaction between members and leveraging greater cross-fertilization of ideas in our community, the Executive Committee has agreed a policy to support the travel costs of members to designated official euCognition events.

The Executive Committee reserves the right to restrict the number of members who will be reimbursed the costs of attending official euCognition events.

Members of euCognition who register for official euCognition events and who wish to apply for reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs (not registration fees) must seek the written approval of the Network Coordinator before booking flights or incurring any associated cost.

If approval is given, then reimbursement of costs is subject to the normal euCognition guidelines and is conditional upon the member contributing a new cognition briefing to the euCognition wiki (http://www.eucognition.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cognition_Briefings). The URL to the briefing must be provided on the submitted claim form and the claim will not be considered unless the cognition briefing has been contributed and prior approval has been granted. Cognition briefings that have been previously contributed, i.e. prior to attending the workshop, do not qualify. A different briefing must be contributed for each claim. The member is free to choose the topic of the briefing.

It is not necessary to contribute a cognition briefing when attending the six-monthly meetings and registration is taken to be a request for approval.

Note that there is a possibility that we will have to cancel the final six-monthly meeting due to shortage of funds. If we go ahead, we will grant approval for the meeting on a first-registered-first-approved basis.