We are less than a week away from the Governance Meetings in Krakow, kindly hosted this year by Cochrane Poland.
 
The Governance Meetings provide the main annual opportunity for Cochrane’s senior leaders and Group staff to come together to learn about and discuss organizational priorities, challenges and opportunities. Feedback from previous meetings has shown that participants would value more time working together across Group-types. We’re therefore trialling a new format this year, with a full day of cross-group strategic sessions on Tuesday 2 April and a half-day on the morning of Wednesday 3 April.
 
The content of these strategic sessions has been developed over the past couple of months in partnership with many of you, focussed on the priorities you have identified, and facilitated by the Central Executive Team.

You are now able to download the supporting documents for the strategic sessions on Tuesday 2 April from the Cochrane Community website. These documents are the draft ‘Principles of Collaboration’ developed by the Cochrane Council, and two supporting papers on authoring Cochrane Reviews from the Council and Senior Management Team. You’re invited to read these documents in advance of the meeting, although it’s not a requirement.

If you’re not attending the meeting but would like to provide feedback on these documents, you are welcome to do so on the Cochrane Forums (topic: Governance > Governance Meetings 2019). This invitation is open to any Cochrane Member.

You are also welcome to submit questions to the Governing Board and Council Co-Chairs, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief via this Forum, and those questions will be will be answered during the sessions on Tuesday 2 April and/or on the Forums directly. The Forums provide a space for all Members and Supporters to have open and transparent online discussions about issues relevant to Cochrane. Find out more about the Cochrane Forums on the Cochrane Community website.