Dear RoboCup participants,
We are writing to let you know that, like last year, we will have a
Regional Committee Assembly this year in Salvador.
The meeting will be on Friday, July 18, 2025, 1.30-3.30 pm.
I will write again to let you know once the details, including location, are confirmed.
Many of you are already represented by regional committees.
You can find the list of regional committees here:
https://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees
In that case, your representative has already been invited to the
meeting.
If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to
get together with any other participants from your country to form a
Regional Committee.
The procedure for forming Regional Committees is included at the
bottom of this message. Please let me know if you or someone else
from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting.
Best Regards,
Maike & Alexander on behalf of the RCF President and the Trustees
--
Prof. Dr. Alexander Ferrein
Mobile Autonomous Systems & Cognitive Robotics Institute
Robotics and Foundations of Computer Science
FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Eupener Strasse 70 | 52066 Aachen | Germany
T: +49 241 6009 51904 | F: +49 241 6009 52190
E: f*****n@fh-aachen.de | W: www.ferrein.fh-aachen.de
Speaker Major Competitions of the RoboCup German Regional Committee
W: www.robocup.de
Former Vice-Chair of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science
A Network of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
W: www.agnes-h.org
RoboCup Regional Committees
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A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from
any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth
"region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is
invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee.”
The purposes of these committees are to
1) Promote RoboCup within your region.
2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens.
3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited.
4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education
within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances
through friendly competition.
5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup
website describing the RoboCup activities in your region.
There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions,
which should also be run with regional committee participation, but
must be approved by the board of trustees.
For each such local event and open, regional committees may at some
time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation
registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the
federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into
effect).
The regional committee is also expected to send a report following
each event summarizing the participation and organization of the
event, including how many people and teams participated, from where,
etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be
grouped together into a single annual report.
Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the
main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions
that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the
committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your
region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already
established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate
formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including
RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome.
To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants
from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared,
please contact the RoboCup Trustees to let us know:
1) The members and affiliations of the committee.
2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams
represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your
region).
3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see
http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/(http://w...)
for some examples).
The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to
be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup
website.
The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least
once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the
Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions and in
general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees,
one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees
(one vote per regional committee).
