Minutes of the 1st Steering Committee Meeting, 5.2.2008, Köln. Germany
Minutes of the 1st Steering Committee Meeting
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 9:00 - 17:00 hrs
Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung
Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10. D-50829 Köln. Germany
1.Opening of the meeting and welcome of participants
Prof. Antonio Tiburcio welcomed the participants to the meeting. Present at the meeting: Prof. Dorothea Bartels, Prof. Pedro Carrasco, Dr. Rina Iannacone, Dr. Csaba Koncz, Dr. László Szabados, Dr. Bernd Wollenweber and Prof. Antonio Tiburcio. The COST Office was represented by the Science Officer Dr. Ioanna Stavridou.
2. Adoption of the agenda
The agenda was accepted without amendments.
3. Information on the status of the Action’s Website
Dr. Bernd Wollenweber updated the Steering Committee Members on the status of the Action’s Website (http://cost-inpas.org/) and its structure regarding the elements that have been considered important to be present in the site, including both dynamic functions and links to different information regarding the Action. A number of logos have been suggested and additional suggestions on the content have been discussed.
4. Discussion on the Joint Working Group/Management Meeting in Matera, April 2008
The first Joint WG/MC meeting will be a meeting with active input from participants either in the form of a presentation or in the form of a poster. Each working group activities and plans will be presented by the working group coordinator followed by three presentations from speakers of the specific working group. Each working group session will end with a discussion regarding in detail the work program of the group (all according to the MoU).
The Working Group coordinators will disseminate the information to researchers within their own network in case they want to participate to the meeting on their own expenses. No registration fee will be required.
The total number of participants (MC + experts) is limited by the total action budget. The SC may invite 1-2 additional experts to the meetings, within the same budget constraints. The SC will decide on final participation.
5. Draft Agenda of the Matera Meeting
The Joint WG/MC meeting will take place in Matera on the 11 and 12 April, 2008.
The local organizer is Dr. Rina Iannacone
Local costs (up to 3000 euros) will be partly covered by COST contribution.
Tentative programme:
Thursday 10th
16:00-19:00 Registration
Friday 11th
8:00-9:00 Registration and poster set up
9:00-9:30 Opening ceremony
Welcome (Local organizer: Rina Iannacone)
Antonio F. Tiburcio (Chair of COST Action)
9:30-11:10 Work Group 1
Chair: Laszlo Bogre Co-Chair: to be decided
9:30 Laszlo Bogre: Overview of WG1 activity. (Expected goals and milestones of MoU to be reached).
Speakers
09:50 Pedro Rodriguez
10:10 Montserrat Pages
10.30 Hannes Kollist
10.50 Discussion
11:10-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-13:20 Work Group 2
Chair: Dorothea Bartels Co-Chair: to be decided
11:40 Dorothea Bartels: Overview of WG 2 activity. (Expected goals and milestones of MoU to be reached).
Speakers
12:00 Julio Salinas
12.20 to be decided
12:40 to be decided
13:00 Discussion
13:20 Lunch
15:00-17:00 Poster session WG1 and WG2
Chairs: Laszlo Bogre and Dorothea Bartels
Co-Chairs: to be decided
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:50 Chair: to be decided
17:30-18:30 Invited Keynote-Speaker (to be defined)
Chair: to be decided
18:30-18:50 to be decided
20:30 Dinner
Saturday 12th
8:30-10:10 Work Group 3
Chair: Aviah Zilberstein: Co-Chair: to be decided
8:30 Aviah Zilberstein: Overview of WG3 activity. (Expected goals and milestones of MoU to be reached).
Speakers
8:50 Laszlo Szabados
9.10 Arnd G. Heyer
9.30 to be decided
9:50 Discussion
10.10-10-40 Coffee break
10:40-12:20 Work Group 4
Chair: Pedro Carrasco Co-Chair: K.A. Roubelakis-A
10.40 Pedro Carrasco: Overview of WG4 activity.
(Expected goals and milestones of MoU to be reached).
Speakers
11.00 Alain Boucherau
11.20 Riccardo Angelini
11.40 Hely Haggman
12.0 Discussion
12:20-12:40 Website presentation
Chair: Bernd Wollenweber
Speaker
12:20 to be decided
12:40-13:00 Final Discussion
Chair: to be decided
13.00 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Poster session WG3 and WG4
Chairs: Aviah Zilberstein and Pedro Carrasco
Co-Chairs: to be decided and K.A. Roubelakis-Angelakis
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17.00:19:30 Management committee meeting
19.30 Sightseeing
21.00 Dinner
17:30-19:30 Management Committee Meeting
• List of existing meetings, symposia, training activities to be presented by the MC members
• Finalize a work plan for 2008 budget year with funds allocation for STSMs, workshop, MC meeting, small group meetings (steering committee meetings, working group meetings)
• Draft for a 4 yr plan
• STSM coordinator to be elected
• STSM proposals and criteria to be set out
• STSM collection dates
• Publication strategy (special issue in a journal, reviews or book). For dissemination purposes Action members who are authors of research articles should indicate that are members of INPAS.
• Progress reports required to be submitted by the working groups.
6. Miscellaneous
The Science Officer informed the Steering Committee about the intention of France to accept the MoU. France has received the permission of the Steering Committee Meeting and now can accept the MoU.
The Steering Committee Meeting was also informed about the intention of participation of NON-COST countries to the Action and specifically of that of Tohoku University, Japan. The template of participation of the institution was received but it was concluded that more detailed information was required on point 4 regarding the description of mutual benefits and the working groups selected for cooperation.
Information was also provided regarding the early stage researchers in regards to STSMs. The Steering Committee was informed that at least 4 STSMs are required to be carried out per year with a maximum duration of up to 6 months and a maximum of 3500 euros of financial support for early stage researchers.
The steering committee was also briefed on the annual progress report (relevant information given to the Chair on paper) and on the poster/flyer to be prepared and presented in the Annual Monitoring Meeting anticipated to take place in autumn. The Flyer and Poster will be made available by the Chair, based on the templates provided by the COST secretariat. Progress Reports of the working groups should be sent to the Chair during the Action to enable the creation of the annual monitoring report.
Suggestion for cooperation with Action FA0603 on Plant Proteomics in Europe was also welcomed.
7.Closing
Participants:
Dorothea Bartels dbartels@uni-bonn.de
Pedro Carrasco Pedro.Carrasco@uv.es
Rina Iannacone riannacone@agrobios.it
Csaba Koncz koncz@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
László Szabados szabados@brc.hu
Antonio F. Tiburcio afernandez@ub.edu
Bernd Wollenweber Bernd.Wollenweber@agrsci.dk
Ioanna Stavridou istavridou@cost.esf.org
Ioanna Stavridou
COST Secretariat