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MINUTES OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE COST ACTION G7 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ON “ARTWORK CONSERVATION BY LASER”

(Combined with Working Groups’ meeting)

 

15-16 JUNE 2001 Vienna (AUSTRIA)

 

 

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WELCOME TO PARTICIPANTS 

The Scientific Officer welcomed the participants on behalf of COST.  Dr. M. Schreiner and Dr. Johann Nimmrichter welcomed the participants on behalf of the inviting Austrian Delegation.

 

PRESENTATION OF THE DELEGATIONS

The new Delegates and participants introduced themselves and their Institutes and informed briefly the Committee about their research interests.

 

COST G7 HOMEPAGE

Dr. R. Radvan presented a preliminary set-up for the COST G7 page and the work already undertaken.  The COST G7 database is under construction. It was agreed that Dr. Radvan would look at some homepages prepared by other Actions and would prepare a set-up for the COST G7 page that would be in line with that of other Actions. 

Dr. Radvan will do a detailed presentation of the set-up and the information to be included in the homepage during the next MC meeting. 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

The password is: artwork2001.

 

BUDGETARY SITUATION: 2001

The Secretariat reported that the amount of 62000 EUR has been allocated to COST G7 for the year 2001. The Secretariat noted that some small adjustment was requested to the COST Secretariat in order to reflect five more countries that are or will be joining the Action but this will only be decided for the year 2002.

 

 

SHORT-TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS (STSM)

The Committee decided that the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH – Heraklion, GR) will be the administrating Institute for the Short Term Scientific Missions.  Its representative Dr. V. Zafiropulos has accepted that his Institution will undertake this task.

It was agreed that an evaluation Committee for the STSM would be created.  The panel will have the following members: the 3 Working Group leaders, the Chairman and the Scientific Officer.

The STSM requests from the applicants will be sent to FORTH that will process their requests. The evaluation Committee will then decide upon the scientific merit of each request and the amount that will be awarded to each applicant. It will then report its decisions to the Management Committee during its bi-annual meetings.

 

PUBLICATIONS

The proposal to have some of the results of the work undertaken by the Working Groups published was discussed.  A more concrete proposal for a publication will be discussed in future meetings when some of the scientific results have been concluded.

 

 

REVIEW OF THE WORK UNDERTAKEN BY THE WORKING GROUPS –

WORK PROGRAMME

The three WG meetings followed and the future work plan for each Group was agreed (see separate minutes of the WG’s).

 

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 18 to 21 October 2001 in Heraklion, Greece. Owing to the short interval between the Vienna and Heraklion meetings, the hotel information will be issued around August 24.

 

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

 

a)  The Chairman, Dr. V. Zafiropulos, announced that the area of “Cultural Heritage” was absent from the 6 Framework Programme draft proposal.  It was proposed that the Delegates contact their MPs and try to influence this decision. At the moment that these Minutes are issued the situation seems better than before.

 

Delegates from Finland and Slovenia presented their research interest and requested to join the Action.  The Committee approved this request and as a result Slovenia and Finland will be joining COST G7 as full members as soon as their representatives to the EU conclude the relevant procedure.

 

The Chairman informed the Committee about a request he received from a US Institute to participate to the Action. The Committee noted the interest of the American colleagues but decided not to endorse their request at this stage.