International mathematical union

4. Regional Conferences
ICMI has decided to adopt the following (minimum) requirements for granting the status of ICMI Regional Meeting to a conference under planning:

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  There has to be evidence of a broad national support of the meeting;
  
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  There has to be evidence of a fair degree of regional support;
  
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  The conference should have a theme which is of specific significance to the region at issue;
  
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  An International Programme Committee has to be appointed. It should include at least one member representing the ICMI EC (not necessarily an EC member) who is prepared to produce a brief report of the organisation and proceedings of the conference;
  
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  A conference report in English should be published;
  
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  If ICMI is asked to provide financial support, a budget and a subsequent brief account, both in gross terms, should be made available to the ICMI EC. Normally, only regional conferences to be held in non-affluent countries will be eligible to financial support from ICMI.
  

In 1995, the Proceedings of the ICMI-China Regional Conference, Shanghai, 1994, was published by Shanghai Educational Publishing House.

In 1995, the conference Regional Collaboration in Mathematics Education: An ICMI Regional Conference was held at Monash University, Mel­bourne (Australia), 19-23 April 1995. As this conference took place in a developed country, ICMI's sponsorship did not involve financial support.
The ICMI EC supported (by a grant of US$ 2.000) The Seventh South East Asian Conference on Mathema­tics Education (SEACME 7), which was held at Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi (Vietnam), 3-7 June 1996, with 135 participants from 17 countries. A brief report of the conference, which was sponsored by ICMI as an ICMI Regional Meeting, was published in the ICMI Bulletin, No. 41, December 1996. The proceedings of the conference, edited by Nguyen Dinh Tri et al., was published by the Vietnamese Mathematical Society in 1997.
No ICMI Regional Conferences were held in 1997. The next such meeting, The First ICMI East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education (ICMI-EARCOME 1), will be held in Chungbuk, The Republic of Korea, 17-21 August 1998.