On Monday, 28 September the Meeting of the Delegates 2020 took place. An event that will surely enter the history books of the Inter­national Search and Rescue Dog Or­ga­ni­sa­ti­on.

The Coronavirus has been affecting all our lives for several months now, and has been pushing us to think and im­ple­ment things dif­fer­ent­ly. This was the case at this year's IRO Meeting of the Delegates. While this event was previously held as a purely face-to-face event, yesterday for the first time attendees were able to participate from home or the office via livestream.

All votes were carried out via online vot­ing. This was also the case with the elec­tion of the IRO Executive Board, which could hardly be surpassed in tension. In the end, the list of the Executive Board de­cided the election by a narrow margin. The new IRO Executive Board is therefore com­posed of the fol­low­ing members:

President: Alois Balog (AT)
1^st Vice President: Claudio Bötschi (CH)
2^nd Vice President: Ida Bårris (DK)
Training Deparment: Jerneja Ternovec (SI)
Deployment Department: Markus Bock (AT)
Marketing Department: Vedran Vukomanović (HR)
Finance Department: Charlotte Kranz (AT)

We would like to thank all par­tici­pants for staying with us for so long and all our partners for the fan­tas­tic collaboration.