Draft Minutes of the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 21:09 — Bernd Wollenweber

Draft Minutes of the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting
Avda. Diagonal, 643. Facultat de Farmàcia. Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona 16-17 October 2008

1       Welcome to participants
The participants of the SC Meeting were welcomed by Antonio F. Tiburcio, the chair of this Action.
 
2       Adoption of the agenda
  • The draft agenda was adopted without any amendment.
  • In the absence of Ioanna Stavridou, Dr Pedro Carrasco was nominated as secretary of the Meeting.
3.    Organization of Scientific Meeting in Tartu, Estonia, 14-17 of May 2009
The local organizers (Dr. Hannes Kollist and Dr. Ülo Niinemets) presented all features concerning organization of the Scientific Meeting in Tartu. Topics presented and discussed in the meeting included:
 
  • Possibilities for flying to Tallin and reach Tartu from there.
  • Meeting and hotel place (www.dorpat.ee). Hotel prices and size of the Meeting Place (120-160 seats).
  • Expenses of the Meeting covered by Action COST (3000 €) and additional other granting possibilities (i.e. application to Estonian Ministry of Education and Research).
  • In case of grant-application failure, possibility of getting an additional support of 1500 € from the Action COST.
  • It was decided by the SC that the meeting will be open and announced widely and that a registration fee of 120 € will be required for non-MC and/or non-SC members.
  • Deadline for early meeting registration: December 2008.
  • Deadline for abstract submission: 16/03/2009. In comparison with the Matera Meeting, it was decided that less talks will be presented in order to have more time for discussion and interactions during oral and poster presentations. The Action chair proposed to select at least one STMS for oral presentation. Final selection for oral presentations will be done by the SC according to Scientific Program.
  • A list of Key-note/invited speakers was proposed. According to the budget 6 speakers will be invited. Final list will be announced by December 1st upon speaker acceptance.
  • The possibility to grant young scientists to partially cover meeting expenses was also discussed. Decisions will be made upon budget availability (i.e. if remaining money is left from allocated STMS budget).
 
4.  Information material
INTERNET/WEB site: Dr. Bernd Wollenweber reported on the status and interactive use of INPAS web site. Update of new MC members will be done. Update of publications will be requested to all MC members. So far the Web page is not been used according to the interactive possibilities that offer this site. The use of the site (password protected section) will be recommended to all MC members. Dr. Bernd Wollenweber will circulate information about the use and possibilities of the web.    
     
5.  Possibilities to submit an EU-proposal
After discussion the SC decided that at this moment it seems more reasonable to explore the possibility to join other initiatives.
 
6.  Possibility of Satellite Meeting at FESPB (July 2010) in Valencia.
Because the budget of this year has to be expended by May the 31st, it makes impossible to join the FEBPS Meeting in July. It was proposed to have the Valencia Meeting in April 2009.
 
7.   Any Other Business
None
 
8.         Closing of the meeting
In closing the meeting on 17 October 2008 at 13:00 hrs Action Chair Prof. Antonio F. Tiburcio expressed his gratitude to the members of the SC for their active participation in the meeting.
 
Pedro Carrasco
October 2008
Participants:
 
Dorothea Bartels dbartels@uni-bonn.de
Laszlo Bogre l.bogre@rhul.ac.uk
Pedro Carrasco Pedro.Carrasco@uv.es
Rina Iannacone riannacone@agrobios.it
Hannes Kollist hannes.kollist@ut.ee
Ülo Niinemets ylo.niinemets@emu.ee
Antonio Tiburcio afernandez@ub.edu
Bernd Wollenweber Bernd.Wollenweber@agrsci.dk
Aviah Zilberstein aviah@post.tau.ac.il
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