MINUTES
OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COST ACTION G7 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ON "ARTWORK
CONSERVATION BY LASER".
(combined
with Working Groups’ meeting and workshop)
18-21 OCTOBER 2001 Fodele - Heraklion (GREECE)
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1. WELCOME TO
PARTICIPANTS
The
Scientific Officer welcomed the participants on behalf of COST. Dr. Zafiropulos welcomed the participants on
behalf of the inviting Greek Delegation.
2. PRESENTATION
OF THE DELEGATIONS
The
new Delegates and participants introduced themselves and their Institutes and informed
briefly the Committee about their research interests. (Delegations from Cyprus, The
Netherlands and Poland)
3. ADOPTION
OF THE AGENDA
The
Agenda was adopted without modifications.
4. APPROVAL OF THE
DRAFT MINUTES OF THE 3RD MEETING OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
(15-16/06/2001 Vienna)
The
Minutes were approved without modifications.
5. COST G7
HOMEPAGE
Dr.
Radvan gave a detailed presentation of the set-up and the information that is included in
the homepage. The homepage is including general information about the Action, the MC
members, the WGs and WPs. It also includes information on the database
that is being created of all conservation laser-cleaning systems in Europe and related
fields.
The Delegates are requested to provide feedback and comments to Dr. Radvan as soon as
possible.
The
Homepage address is: http://alpha1.infim.ro/cost
6. BUDGETARY
SITUATION: 2001
The
Secretariat reported that the amount of 62.000 EUR has been allocated to COST G7 for the
year 2001. The Secretariat noted that some small adjustments were requested to the COST
Secretariat for 2002 in order to reflect the new countries that joined the Action. Any
adjustment is subject to the general COST funds available for all COST Actions for next
year.
7. SHORT-TERM
SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS (STSM)
Dr.
Zafiropulos noted that FORTH is finalising the papers for the request of the STSM contract
to the Commission. He reminded to the Committee that anyone who has a proposal for a STSM
should sent to FORTH the relevant documents. The request will be examined but decided only
after the relevant contract with the Commission is signed.
8. REVIEW OF THE
WORK UNDERTAKEN BY THE WORKING GROUPS - WORK PROGRAMME
The
WG leaders presented the work undertaken by each Working Group and the future work plan
for each Group was agreed. (see separate
minutes)
9. PLACE AND
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
The
next meeting of the MC and the WGs (with the possibility of a workshop subject to be
confirmed) will be held from 26-27 April 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
Finland
has proposed to host a meeting in autumn 2002 and Hungary and Italy in 2003.
10.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
The
Committee was informed that Malta is interested in participating to the Action. It was
decided to accept the participation of Malta to COST Action G7. The Committee also discussed the issue of
participation of non-COST Institutions. The Committee decided that at this stage it does
not want to accept non-COST Institutions to participate to the Action. Nevertheless each
new request for participation should be examined and decided upon separately based on the
information provided by the applicant Institution.
Anna
Danti
Scientific
Officer COST G7