If you intend to have a contribution in the EASST-Newsletter, please contact the EASST Secretary Dr. Julia Padberg (email : padberg@cs.tu-berlin.de). For preparing your contribution, please use one of the provided templates. There are templates available for LaTeX ( more precisely a package to be used) WORD and for FrameMaker. If your contribution is finished, please translate it into one PDF-document. Each of the above word processing systems admits this. And then send it to the EASST-secretary (Dr. Julia Padberg, padberg@cs.tu-berlin.de) Using these templates you help ensuring an even and nice layout.