CODENET - Blagnac 98 Report

1.2 Workshop summaries

 
Scientists in Charge Workshop, Network development and management

 
Attendance

Jeremy R Young (NHM, Chair), Marta Estrada (CSIC), Hans Thierstein (ETHZ), Jan van Hinte (VUA), Gerard Versteegh (NIOZ, pp Jaap Damste), Mario Cachão (Lisbon) Volker Huss (Erlangen, pp Linda Medlin AWI)

 
Annual report
The annual report and cost statements are due by end January 1999. The following set of deadlines was agreed.
A. JRY sends details and forms to each Scientist-in-charge & YVR. Deadline 1st Dec.
B. YVRs + scientists-in-charge send JRY an informal summary of activities, publications etc. Deadline 20th Dec.
C. Scientists-in-charge are responsible for preparing and sending signed cost statements. Deadline 15th Jan.
D. JRY compiles everything and sends to EC. Deadline, to arrive by 30th Jan.

Mid Term Review and Second Workshop
Arrangements for the next meeting and mid term review were discussed. It was agreed that they should take place at Blagnac in September 1999, exact date to be settled asap by JRY in consultation with the EU. The workshop will be 3 days long followed by 1 day for the mid term review (attendance: all scientists-charge, all YVRs, external scientific reviewer, EU representative). JRY will arrange preparation of mid term report in advance of the meeting.
 
Funding issues
The TMR rules for funding were discussed. Possible sources of funding for scientific activities not allowed by TMR rules were discussed. HRT indicated that he might be able to find funds for some such essential activities.
 
Workshop Report
It was agreed that an extended Workshop Report should be prepared both to document the workshop and review activity. In particular all contributors to the workshop would be strongly encouraged to submit extended abstracts. VU would produce and distribute the report, with editorial input by JvH, SB, PZ and JRY.
 
WWW Site
JRY demonstrated the CODENET WWW Site developed by himself and Markus Geisen. It was agreed that all participants should be encouraged to use this as a prime means of communication. JRY undertook to arrange to post any suitable material submitted by participants on the site (including conversion of documents to HTML) or to place links on the site to pages hosted on other participants WWW sites.