News Letter No. 4 
of
Sub-Regional European Astronomical Committee (SREAC)
July  - October 2007
by 
Eleni LIVANIOU- ROVITHIS, the SREAC Chair, Greece
Nedelia POPESCU, the Secretary, Romania

This is the fourth News Letter of SREAC and concerns the interval July – October 2007. 

Meetings:
In the last four months the following Meetings held in our near or wider area:

1)	 “X-ray Surveys: Evolution of Accretion, Star-formation and Large Scale Structure”, Rhodes Island, 2-6 July 2007,  http://www.astro.noa.gr/~xray07
2)	JENAM 2007, 20-25 August 2007, “Our non-stable Universe”, Yerevan, Armenia 
3)	 BPU-5, 5th International Student Conf. Of the Balkan Physical Union, 21-24 August 2007, Bodrum –Turkey,  http://iscbpu5.balkanphysicalunion.org/ 
4)	 BPU First International Physics Symposium and Festival & Inter-Univ Physics Projects Competition, Bodrum-Turkey, 4-6 September 2007
5)	 8th Conference of Hel.A.S., Thasos Island, 13 - 15 September 2007
6)	 5th SREAC’s Meeting combined with the Astro-Meeting “Latest Progress in Astrophysics”, Athens 5-6 October 2007,
         http://users.uoa.gr/~elivan/SCIENTIFICMeeting_2ndAn.htm

In the last Meeting about 50 scientists from 10 countries were participated.  Among them there were some young scientists & post-graduate students who had the opportunity to present their scientific works and/or diplomas.  It was a well-done and successful Meeting, according the references of most of the participants. Helping the weather, the participants could walk a lot around and see the new, the old and the ancient Athens, admire Parthenon and/or visit some Museums.  
  
School for Spectroscopy:
A School for Spectroscopy carried out at Rozhen, Bulgaria, October 21-26, 2007.
Many post-graduate students from all SEE countries had the opportunity to attend the School, and the general impressions and opinions were very good.

We welcome Schools like this and like the one carried out at Sinaia, Romania in May 2007, as well as any other similar action & activity, which offers a lot to the young scientists of our area.

Financial Support:
The last Meeting & the School at Rozhen were carried out due to the financial support offered mainly by UNESCO-BRESCE for 2007 to our IBSP project 2-BG-01 title: “Enlargement of Collaboration in Ground-Based Astronomical Research in SEE Countries: Variable Stars Research and Studies of Small Bodies of the Solar System”. 
The financial support of $20.000,00 USA dollars, offered by UNESCO-BRESCE, for SREAC’s purposes was decided to be divided as follows: $9.500,00 for the Astro-Meeting combined with the 5th SREAC’s Meeting; $9.000,00 for the School for Spectroscopy at Rohzen; $1.000,00 for the 120y anniversary of the Beograd Obs. and the rest $500,00 for the enhanced OPTICON Meeting held in Romania. 
We are grateful to UNESCO-BRESCE for its financial support to our project.

News:
•	During the last Meeting the 5th SREAC’s Meeting was made, too.  It was then decided to try to do something, (a Meeting, a School, something else?), all together for 2009, which as it is known will be the year for Astronomy.  As the place and the time were not decided, all ideas and suggestions are welcome.
•	The Bucharest Observatory will celebrate its Centenary with an International Meeting title: “Exploring the Solar System and the Universe”, 8-12 April 2008. 
Programs
We would also like to remind to you that:
If we really want Astronomy-Astrophysics to be included in some new projects, it is very important to contact (go or just phone) to the responsible person in our own countries. We could even ask for restricted subjects related to our own interests...  
These persons are:
For Bulgaria: Lora Pavlova, Ministry of Education & Science,
                     l.pavlova@minedu.government.bg
For FYROM: Katerina Sumanovska, Ministry of Education and Technology,
                      ksumanovska@mn.gov.mk
For Montenegro: Tatiana Knezević, Ministry of Education and Science,
                      Tatiana@co.ac.yu
For Romania: Alexandru Gurau, Ministry of European Integration,
                      agarau@mct.ro
For Serbia: Suzana Vojinović, Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection,
                     Suzana.volinovic@mntr.sr.gov.yu