History of ELLS

September 2001	Letter of Intent for the formation of the Euroleague for Life Sciences
November 2001	"Kick-off workshop", Doorwerth, the Netherlands
October 2002	1st Conference on Education and Science with partners of the Euroleague for Life Sciences and universities in Northern America at Wageningen University
December 2002	Board meeting in Uppsala Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
June 2003	UHOH assumes ELLS Chair
October 2003	Withdrawal of the University of Aberdeen
November 2003	Board meeting in Hohenheim Adoption of the Policy Document
February 2004	ELLS-Conference on Internationalisation and Quality Assurance, University of Hohenheim
June 2004	2nd ELLSNA Conference on Transatlantic Cooperation in Education Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
October 2004	ELLS Meeting at BOKU, Vienna Signing of the "Letter of Intent" for the Cooperation between the Euroleague for Life Sciences and North American Universities, ELLSNA
May 2005	Board meeting in Copenhagen Decision on the enlargement of ELLS
July 2005	Accession of Czech University of Agriculture (CUA) Prague and Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW) as ELLS members with observer status
October 2005	ELLS Conference "The Life Science Concept of the ELLS Network", Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
June 2006	3rd ELLSNA Conference on Transatlantic Cooperation in Education The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Copenhagen, Denmark
October 2006	Start of the joint MSc programme "Safety in the Food Chain"
October 2006	ELLS Conference "Achievement and perspectives of ELLS", Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
August 2007	Start of the joint MSc programme EnvEuro - Master in Environmental Science
September 2007	ELLS Conference "From Strategy to Implementation", University for Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
1 October 2007	BOKU Vienna assumes ELLS Chair