Last year, we all wished for a Happy New Year, and we must say 2020 was an extraordinary and difficult year. This year was challenging on so many levels: professional and personal lives got all tangled together, and we had to find new ways of working and collaborating without travelling including in our own country.

Even though 2020 did all its best to keep us apart, that didn’t prevent EA from continuing communicating with each other, moving on with the current issues and starting new projects, welcoming new faces, and of course wishing for this episode to be soon over while making the best out of it.

2021 will be an important year for EA with an entirely new structure: an Executive Board composes of a new President, a Vice-President and four Members and a Technical Management Board comprises the EA Vice-President, the Chairs of the Technical Committees, the Multilateral Agreement Council (MAC) and the Communications and Publications Committee (CPC). This new Structure will pave the way for a new stage in EA development and facilitate our main objective: EA as a reference in the world of accreditation.

This year we were enforced to experience new tools that will certainly turn into regular features for sustainable professional services to the EA Community: online meetings, workshops and trainings, electronic ballots, forum discussions and virtual conferences amongst many others that have been introduced.

So, apart from wishing you all a Happy New Year, we wish 2021 to be the year when we could all gather again in the best conditions, laugh, and enjoy quality EA time together.