This document reports the first draft of the statutes of the European Association for Semantic Web Education (EASE), which is intended to host the educational activities of KnowledgeWeb and continue them beyond the end of EU funding for KnowledgeWeb. This first version reflects the opinion of the involved KnowledgeWeb member to their best knowledge, but it does not include feedback from legal departments of the involved universities, nor from the involved tax office or the register for associations.