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March 2002 Nr. 1 - 22/03/02
by Michael Gauss
in behalf of the ESPERE Steering Committee
Dear supporters of ESPERE,
we are pleased to announce three new members:
Dr. Frank Raes
(Sci. Adv. Board) |
Climate Change Unit
Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Joint Research Centre Ispra
European Commission |
Dave Worton
(supporter) |
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, U.K. |
Mathieu Leporini
(supporter) |
LaMP - Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique
OPGC/Université Blaise Pascal
Aubière, France |
thank you for joining our community! We are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration.
The writing of the EU proposal has been in the main focus during the last few weeks. As mentioned earlier you can read the drafts of the different parts of the proposal on the espere website.
(Link Visions 2002 on the platform)
Everyone is asked to give comments.
The 'two hours per month' rule has turned out to have little effect, apart from deterring supporters from signing the MA-form.
It is considered to change the text of the MA-form into:
'By signing the MA-form I agree to contribute with a minimum of support (e.g. 2 hours per month) to the development of the project and to try to help when asked."
In particular, those of you who didn't sign the MA-form are invited to comment on this new suggestion.
Please take a look at the revised welcome page of ESPERE at
http://www.espere.net
All links of internal and/or interactive concern are now in the 'platform' section. The individual countries are accessible from a pop-up menu.
A new way to collect links (divided into countries) is planned as we have experienced regular abuse of the site open for the public. The new site will not be password-protected, but its link will be published through the newsletter only. More about this in the next newletter.
- division of the Educational Advisory Board into national subunits
- division of the Scientific Advisory Board into different thematic subunits
- definition of new work packages of different size - topical small
ones with a deadline only in urgent cases (we will ask you for help),
and larger mid-term projects without a deadline. A first compilation
of the latter can be accessed under
http://www.espere.net/Members/projectlist.html - linked to the platform.
Best wishes,
the ESPERE steering committee.
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