[Eupol] Agenda for Nov. 20th

[Jochen Greiner]

Dear all

attached, please, find a few issues to be discussed on our first
Skype session, planned for the coming Wednesday at 14:00 UT.
Please, send me your skype names by Tuesday.

until soon
Jochen


On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 05:25:31PM +0100, Jochen Greiner wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> this email is intended to start our activities towards an EU proposal in 
> the Space2020 framework on polarisation. The call has just been issued a 
> few days ago - see
> https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/space-30-sci-2020
> For those of you knowledgable about EU terminology, this is a Research 
> and Innovation action [RIA], and the full call label is SPACE-30-SCI-2020.
> The deadline for proposal submission is March 5th, 2020.
> 
> The call is to "Support the data exploitation of European missions and 
> instruments, in conjunction, when relevant, with international missions".
> As indicated to most of you already in individual contacts, the idea
> would be to look at INTEGRAL (IBIS and SPI) data, and not just GRBs but
> all source classes (Crab, Cyg X-1, SGRs etc). 
> 
> To get started, I propose a first telecon/skype meeting on Nov. 20th,
> 15:00-17:00 Central European Time (14:00-16:00 UTC). I will send a rough
> agenda in due time.
> 
> In order to facilitate easy communication, I have set up a mailing list:
> you can send emails to eupol at lists.mpe.mpg.de and presently the following
> colleagues would get your message 
> 
>       bjoernbiltzinger at gmx.de
> 	fberlato at mpe.mpg.de
> 	jburgess at mpe.mpg.de
> 	jcg at mpe.mpg.de
> 	Merlin.Kole at unige.ch
> 	nicolas.produit at unige.ch
> 	omerbr at tauex.tau.ac.il
> 	tsiegert at ucsd.edu
> 
> @Omer: could you please send the email address of Gal, so I can include her?
> @All: just let me know if we should include any further colleagues at this 
> stage.
> 
> best regards
> Jochen
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- Intro participants

- Intro Topic: 
  (i)  EU Call
  (ii) our goal
  (iii) Project Timeline

- definition of Work Packages and Deliverables
  o needs to be logical and proportionate to the scale/complexity of project
  o needs to justify the resources

- special requirements
  o special emphasis on "dissimination and exploitation" and 
    "communication activities" 
  o innovation management
  o risks

- Budget
  o specified via number of person-months per WP
  o Project duration!?

- Proposal Timeline:
  o 02 Dec: WP definition + deliverables / draft budget distribution
  o 20 Dec: draft of Main Part (objectives, concept & methodology, ambition,
            impact, dissimination/exploitation, communication activities)
  o 17 Jan: complete WP descriptions
  o 14 Feb: complete 1st draft
  o 27 Feb: JG's proposed submission (I'll be offline thereafter)
  o 05 Mar: official submission deadline

- Action items
  o JG, by Nov. 22: distribute proposal templates
  o all, by Nov. 25: suggestions for work packages
  o all, by Nov. 25: provide official costs per PhD/post-doc for 2021