The governing body of the EMS is its council, which comprises delegates representing all of the societies which are themselves members of the EMS, along with delegates representing the institutional and individual EMS members. The council meets every two years, and appoints the president and its executive committee, who are responsible for the running of the society. Besides the executive committee, the EMS has standing committees on: Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations, Developing Countries, Mathematical Education, ERCOM (Directors of European Research Centres in the Mathematical Sciences), Ethics, European Solidarity, Meetings, Publications and Electronic Dissemination, Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics, Women in Mathematics. The EMS's rules are set down in its statutes and bylaws. The EMS is headquartered at the
University of Helsinki. ==Prizes==