Sunday 5th June 2016, RU, Reykjavik
Chair: Martin Leucker, minutes: Volker Stolz
- Welcome to participants
- 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
- Adoption of agenda – unanimous
- Approval of minutes and matters arising of last meeting – unanimous
- 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.
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- 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
- 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)
- Update from the COST Association, if a representative is present – n/a
- Monitoring of the Action
- Implementation of COST policies on
- Follow-up of MoU objectives: progress report of working groups. Largest concerns around RV-conference and COST Summer School, see next item.
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- 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).
- No new requests to join the action
- AOB: A commitee should be established to handle grant allocation to COST summer school-participant. Ylies and Christian in charge; voted unanimously.
- Location and date of next meeting: Madrid, Sept. 26th 2016. Local organizer: César Sanchez.