MINUTES OF LAST SESSION

(Sunday, October 21 2001)

 

 

 

·         Roxana Radvan presented some possibilities for future projects. Potential Programmes are NATO projects (3 different types) and the extension of running FP5 projects after the addition of NAS partners. Roxana proposed that all COST G7 participants look for such possibilities and collaborate with each other for putting some common projects together.

·         Along the same lines, Rafi Ahmad also proposed to put together proposals in the ENVIRONMENT Programme. The diversity of the G7 group will help such attempts.

·         Vassilis Zafiropulos also proposed the Programme IST as one of the possibilities for FP6. At least for IST we know that there will be the aspect of Cultural Heritage as one of its priorities.

·         Renzo Salimbeni presented one DG16 relevant project between several EU regions.

·         Marta Castillejo reported on the creation of a relevant to G7 Spanish Network.

·         Alan Phenix & Rafi Ahmad reported on the UNESCO research & networking funding possibilities.

·         Wolfgang Kautek commented on the prospects of a Workshop during the next meeting in Berlin. Possible subject of the Workshop is ‘Safety’. Everything will be finalized soon.

·         Manfred Schreiner informed the panel of the activities and progress of COST G8 Action. Discussion on the possibilities to have a common Workshop in the future. Likely to invite the chairman of G8 in one of our next meetings.

·         Discussion on publishing or not the proceedings of the Workshop ‘Environmental effects on artworks’.  It was finally decided to publish extended abstracts including some key references.

·         Discussion on Task 5 of WG1. Is it a different Task or is part of Task 4? This Task is very important because it must also include the danger of the emissions (light, particles, gases etc.) from laser-matter interaction. This subject is not properly addressed in the regular instructions on Laser Safety. The subject will be discussed again in the next meeting of WG1.

·         Commenting on the same topic, Alessandra Andreoni suggests to invite speakers on Laser Safety.

 

Finally, there was a discussion on the planning of the next meetings so that general discussions, such as Literature forms and Website matters, to be discussed in common meetings between the different WG’s.