• Use Components Central to Display Information at EMEA Congress
• Offering PDUs for Attending a Course Event?
  Use the R.E.P. Database

• Network Under the Mediterranean Stars
  at the Leadership Institute Meeting in Malta

Tell us all about yourself through Components Central, part of PMI^® Global Congress 2008—EMEA, 16-18 May in St. Julians, Malta. Located in the congress exhibit hall, Components Central will display information from participating chartered components.

To participate, simply submit complete, current information about your component by using the Microsoft^® Word flyer template posted on Component Leadership Online Community > Current News.

Your information and materials must be submitted via the template so that PMI can mount a uniform, attractive and high-quality display. One flyer per component, please!

E-mail your completed template before Friday, 9 May to PMI Leadership Institute Associate Brianne Bangma.

Register your courses in the PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) database — this will make it faster and easier for members to claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) for attending a course event.

Registration is simply a matter of submitting the event online using the R.E.P. Administrator Updates Log-in Site. This site allows a component leader or an R.E.P. to:

• Create and register a new R.E.P. course description form
• Update its organization profile, available to the public on the searchable R.E.P. Directory.
• View a transcript of all the component or R.E.P. organization's registered courses

Each component has a 4-digit I.D. and password that allows leaders to register courses online. Insert your component ID and password, click on Provider Log-in, and you will have access to the site.

Once the course is submitted it is usually approved within two days. After approval, the course appears on the online PDU Activity Reporting site where your attendees may claim their PDUs for participating in the course.

If you have any questions, or are unsure of your component ID and password, please contact repsupport@pmi.org for assistance.

Advance registration is open until Friday, 9 May for the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting,
16–18 May, in St Julians, Malta. The two-and-a-half day event is an outstanding opportunity for professional development and skills improvement. It also gives you the chance to network with members of the PMI Board of Directors, PMI staff and fellow colleagues.

At the end of the Leadership Institute Meeting on Sunday, 18 May, you can board a cruise boat to the island of Gozo and be treated to dinner at the Ta’ Mena wine estate.

This networking reception and dinner is included in your registration. Guests are welcome to attend at a per diem cost. Register online or at the registration desk onsite and close out the meeting with a pleasurable evening under the Mediterranean stars.

Check the list of registered attendees in real time and join the action. For more information please visit the meeting website. If you have questions, please contact Leadership Institute Administrator Gil Marder.

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