By Inger Wijnbladh, IMA Sweden and Emanuela Pastorino, IMA Italy

Inger :

Harriet Bergström from the Swedish company Semper participated in a Management conference in Brussels 1973 where she met Sonia Vanular who was one of the speakers at the seminar.

Over a glass of wine that evening a discussion started about creating a European forum for professional secretaries, this was the start of EAPS!

Emanuela:

The image below shows the first council meeting in 1978