MC Meeting Reykjavik ’16 Agenda and Protocol

Sunday 5th June 2016, RU, Reykjavik
Chair: Martin Leucker, minutes: Volker Stolz

  1. Welcome to participants
  2. Verification of the presence of two-thirds of the Participating COST Countries or, if applicable, a quorum – Countries represented: RS,MT,IT,CZ,IS,PT,UK,FR,ES,SE,LT,CH,NO,IL,DE,NL
  3. Adoption of agenda – unanimous
  4. Approval of minutes and matters arising of last meeting – unanimous
  5. Update from the Action Chair
    • Leucker informs about pending deadline end of June for PREVIOUS grant period.
    •  WG3 without leader since K. Nakata left the action. Leucker suggests César Sanchez. Agreed by acclamation.
      • Cesar summarises purpose of WG3.
      • Gerardo Schneider to support Cesar.
    • WG2 (Giles Reger) is looking for a co-chair, volunteers encouraged to step forward.
    • STSM circulated regularly by César
  6. Upcoming meetings and events:
    • only tentative dates for CZ; meeting in PT will be in next grant period as one of the Inclusiveness-countries.
    • No progress on Romania joining the Action; Chair will contact people in Romania again
    • Potential of colocation of a meeting with iFM in Turino (Sept. 2017, http://ifm2017.di.unito.it)
  7. Update from the COST Association, if a representative is present – n/a
  8. Monitoring of the Action
  9. Implementation of COST policies on
  10. Follow-up of MoU objectives: progress report of working groups. Largest concerns around RV-conference and COST Summer School, see next item.
    • a) WGs see above
    • d1) Christian stands in for Ezio to report on the book (slides/PDF).
    • d2) Christian reports on the planning of the summer school (slides/PDF).
  11. No new requests to join the action
  12. AOB: A commitee should be established to handle grant allocation to COST summer school-participant. Ylies and Christian in charge; voted unanimously.
  13. Location and date of next meeting: Madrid, Sept. 26th 2016. Local organizer: César Sanchez.