We have had lots of activity in the past three months; reviewing student awards, reviewing plans for technical group symposia, and reviewing support for affiliate societies. Some updates on these activities feature in this newsletter.
The main activity of the Presidents over the past three months has been supporting bid submissions for the 2027 ISB Congress. ISB has recently undertaken a review of the Congress hosting guidelines, and these revised guidelines have been used in the recent bid submissions. I am happy to report that we received 5 proposals, and I am very grateful to our President-Elect, Felipe Carpes, for managing and supporting these submissions. I am also very grateful to those teams for taking the time to submit bids to host the 2027 ISB Congress. It is a big task to submit a bid and to host a conference, so thank you to those teams for your willingness to do this, and for your efforts in submitting a bid as the first step. We are performing a preliminary review and will select the top proposals to deliver a detailed bid presentation in August.
You may have noticed a recent email from the “ISB Presidents” inviting you to participate in a strategic survey. ISB is working on a strategic plan and this survey is the first step. It is the consultation of our membership on which ISB activities and initiatives are most valuable to you personally. The survey is anonymous and should only take a few minutes to complete, so please consider completing the survey so that you can have your say as to where ISB should focus our attention and resources. ISB will use the results of the survey to guide the development of an ISB strategic plan, and I will share the insights from the survey in a future newsletter.
Finally, I would also like to share with you all that the Special Issue publications for the ISB 50th Anniversary are near completion. I am very grateful to Alberto Leardini for initiating these Special Issues and for managing the publication process to completion, with assistance from Véronique Feipel and Felipe Carpes, and for the contributions of many of our ISB members as guest editors and authors. The Special Issues already include over 50 papers across 6 issues in 5 journals, and a position paper. This has been a huge undertaking, documenting our history and progress in the field of Biomechanics, with contributions from many ISB members. Thank you all for your contributions and congratulations on this achievement.
I hope you enjoy this edition of the newsletter, and as always, I invite you to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.
Elizabeth Clarke
ISB President
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