The fourth Annual Meeting of EURON II was held on Friday 28th March 2008 in Prague, Czech republic, directly after EUROS.

This year there were two instances of the Seventh Georges Giralt PhD Award, one in Core Robotics and one in Technology Transfer. The Core Robotics winner was Cyrill Stachniss of the University of Freiburg, Germany; for his thesis "Exploration and Mapping with Mobile Robots. The Technology Transfer PhD Award winner was Eduardo Rocón of the Instituto de Automática Industrial, Spain; for his thesis "Active reduction of pathological tremor of superior limbs by means of robotic exoskeletons.

CONGRATULATIONS to both of these and to the runners up. More details.

CONGRATULATIONS also to the Technology Transfer Award winner Nicola Canelli of RobotTech for I-Droid01. More details.

Reports are in the process of being attached to the agenda for the 2008 meeting. The new Board made good progress deciding about EURON III, and how Herman and John's proposal turns into a new EURON constitution. Details will become available later.

We hope that you will get involved in many of EURON's activities and encourage others to do so as well.

Attending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. The Annual Meetings are the major instrument for this purpose.

A lot of things are happening all the time in the European robotics community: conferences and workshops are being organised, projects are starting, job offers are announced, etc. The EURON mailing list is the place-to-be for all your communications around these topics.