January 2002 Nr. 1 - 21/01/02

Dear members and supporters of the ESPERE community!

A happy, joyful and peaceful year 2002, luck in your private life and success in work for everybody of you. May you be able to fulfil at least some of your dreams.

We are glad to be able to announce that this newsletter will be the last one which is not yet signed in the name of the ESPERE steering committee. We are glad and grateful, that the idea of ESPERE found enough friends to survive one year and to grow, slowly but continously.

Thank you for the time you invested in ESPERE and the work you have done to contribute to this project. Thank you also for the confidence you had in our work during our administrative leadership, which is also expressed in the result of the election.

We hope that during this year we will be able to convince more people of the necessity of such an international network and also to convince financial backers to invest in this idea and last but not least to convince you that the work was and is worth to be done.

Michael Gauss & Elmar Uherek

Election - Preliminary Result

Preliminary result of the election for the ESPERE Steering Committee:

votes: 28
valid: 25
without code: 1
wrong code: 2

result:

elected:

1. Elmar Uherek 21
2. Michael Gauss 20
3. Prof. Dr. Andrea Flossmann 17
4. Marie Monier 16
5. Heleen de Coninck 15
6. Prof. Michael W. Tausch 14
6. Dr. Anita Bokwa 14
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not elected:

8. Dr. Thierry Elias 13
9. Dr. Xiaobin Xu 12
10. Dr. Bertrand Timbal 9
11. Dr. Andrei Skorokhod 8
11. Dr. Jianzhong Ma 8

Many thanks to Pamela Knierim from Berlin and Eva Oberländer from the MPI Mainz, who were kindly ready to help out as election officers.Nicolai Lehnert is going to confirm the result officially.
All persons involved in the election and with access to the target mailbox will sign a form that they did not influence the result of the election in any way.

Call RPA 2002

The call for propals of the 'Raising Public Awareness' Field within the Human Potential Programme of EU's Fifth Framework Programme launched Jan, 15th. We are currently going to form a new consortium. You will be informed about the frame in the next newsletter.

Summer School - Withdrawal

With the apologies of the COPERNICUS secretary we have to withdraw temporary the application for funding for a ESPERE summer school. Because of successful application in another project the capacity of Copernicus is bound.
And for the ESPERE community it is not possible to organise a second proposal this spring besides from the one which is planned within the 'Raising Public Awareness' Programme.
We will keep the idea in mind and will likely apply for funding of such a school later on.

Forum enabled

The ESPERE Forum is enabled again. Since several decisions of common interested will be necessary in the future, the Forum can be used again to contribute to the Scientists' Forum.

Next tasks

- Definition of tasks of the Steering Committee
- Preparation of the Framework for the next proposals and formation of a new consortium
- Contact to representatives of the national educational systems and other institutions, that could be help out in mediation or with scientific material
- Developement of statutes
- Development of the Ozone Project and some smaller projects as Solar Cycle
- Extension of the Water Project

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