Board

The APEEE’s Board is made up of 26 members who are each elected for two years from among the class representatives. It is composed as follows:

• 16 members selected as section representatives, one nursery-primary representative and one secondary representative per language section of the Uccle site;
• 5 members selected by the Berkendael Working Group;
• 1 member selected by the SWALS;
• 4 members elected directly by the General Assembly.

The functions of the Administrative Board are as follows:

• to implement the decisions taken by the General Assembly
• to facilitate relations between parents and the school administration, higher instances and other stakeholders (e.g. teachers, students, inspectorate)
• to balance the interests of parents in different the language sections and cycles
• to organise working groups and task forces

The Administratve Board also chooses from among its membership the parent delegates to send to different school bodies.

Board Representation Structure

The following is a visual overview of the APEEE Board’s representation structure, including the election process and delegation of its members to EEBI school committees and European Schools bodies--or check out our Cheat Sheet!

APEEE Structure - Cheat Sheet

APEEE Presidency and Bureau

The Administrative Board nominates an eight-member Bureau every two years to manage the daily running of the parents’ association. The Bureau is headed by the APEEE President and three Vice Presidents who manage the different branches of the APEEE. The Bureau is the daily decision making body of the APEEE and oversees the functioning of APEEE's working groups, task forces and secretariat to ensure that the decisions of the APEEE Board are duly carried out.

The current members of the Bureau are:

• President - Kathryn MÁTHÉ
• VP Berkendael - Henning EHRENSTEIN
• VP Pedagogy - Marc GUITART
• VP Administration - Nils BEHRNDT
• Treasurer - Brian GRAY
• Secretary - Valentina PAPA
• Deputy Secretary for Information - Julien REICHSTADT
• Member (President emeritus) - Pere MOLES PALLEJA
• (affiliated) Financial Advisor - Gundars OSTROVSKIS

The current Bureau will serve until December 2021.

Board Members

A list of the 26 elected representatives to the APEEE Administrative Board (CA) from December 2020 to December 2021 is available below; the list includes also the additional roles that each undertakes as part of their commitment.

Importantly, the APEEE Board meetings can also be attended by CA deputies as well as section representatives to the EEBI Educational Councils (CEs) and their deputies. This group of Board observers or "attendees" are also encouraged to join working groups or serve as delegates on behalf of the APEEE. This ensures broad representation and a distribution of work across more shoulders. You can find a list of those who play an additional role in the APEEE or in other bodies at bottom.

The full lists of elected representatives to the APEEE CA and EEBI CEs are available here in PDF:

EEBI CA APEEE 2020-2021
Uccle CE APEEE 2020-2021
Berkendael CE APEEE 2020-2021

See also: Parent Representatives