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FP1105: Understanding wood cell wall structure, biopolymer interaction and composition: implications for current products and new material innovation

Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade de Coimbra, Portugal 9th of May 2014

Management Committee meeting

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1. Adoption of the Agenda1. Adoption of agenda

2. Matters arising from previous minutes

3. Report from the COST Office– 3.1 News from the COST Office– 3.2 Status of Action, including participating countries– 3.3 Budget Status, budget planning and allocation process (LOS t.b.a)

4. Progress report of working groups

5. Action planning– 5.1 Annual Progress Conference (preparation and/or feedback from DC)– 5.2 Action Budget Planning– 5.3 Action Planning (including meetings)

• 5.3.1 Location and date of next meeting• 5.3.2 Long-term planning (including anticipated locations and dates of

future meetings)

6. STSM status, applications

7. Publications, dissemination and outreach activities

8. Request for new members

9. Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)

10. Non-COST country participations

11. AOB

2. Matters arising from previous MC meeting

• None

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Agenda1. Adoption of agenda2. Matters arising from previous minutes3. Report from the COST Office

– 3.1 News from the COST Office– 3.2 Status of Action, including participating countries– 3.3 Budget Status, budget planning and allocation process (LOS t.b.a)– 3.4 Review of monitoring and progress report

4. Progress report of working groups5. Action planning

– 5.1 Annual Progress Conference (preparation and/or feedback from DC)– 5.2 Action Budget Planning– 5.3 Action Planning (including meetings)

• 5.3.1 Location and date of next meeting• 5.3.2 Long-term planning (including anticipated locations and dates of future

meetings)6. STSM status, applications7. Publications, dissemination and outreach activities8. Request for new members9. Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)10. Non-COST country participations11. AOB

3.1 News from the COST office

e-COST system will soon be further enhanced through the implementation of a Strong Authentication feature, enabling Online Travel Reimbursement Request (OTRR) forms to be submitted fully online.

Strong Authentication will enable Action participants and other relevant stakeholders to identify themselves as unique individuals to the e-COST system in a fully secure way, and thus submit not only supporting documents but also the OTRR form (which currently still needs to be signed and sent in hard copy) completely online.

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3.2. Status of the COST Action

24 May 2012MoU oc-2011-1-9681

CSO Approval date 01/12/2011

Start of Action 24 My 2012

Entry into force 12/01/2012

End of Action 23 May 2016

Budget: 154 700€ (1/7/2014 – 30/6/2015)

3.2. Status of Action: participating countries

24 COST countries

Austria Luxembourg

Bulgaria Norway

Croatia Poland

Czech Republic Portugal

Denmark Romania

Finland Slovenia

France Spain

Germany Sweden

Greece Switzerland

Hungary Turkey

Italy Ukraine

Latvia United Kingdom

3.2. Status of Action: COST countries not participating in the Action

COST countries NOT signed up to the FP1105 Action

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brussels

Cyprus

Estonia

Iceland

Ireland

Lithuania

Malta

Netherlands

Slovakia

Serbia

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

3.2. Status of Action: FP1105 Participation

• 24 countries participating from a total of 35

• How we can have more countries joining the Action?

• Each country brings 5000€ to the Action

FP1105 Cost Action Links

• COST Action FP1006: Bringing new functions to wood through surface modification

• COST Action FP1205: Innovative applications of regenerated wood fibres

• COST Action FP0901: Analytical techniques for biorefineries

• COST Action MP1006: Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics

3.3. Budget StatusGrant period: 01/07/2013 - 30/06/2014

Allocated budget: € 149, 700

A. SUMMARY BUDGET

(1) TRAVEL COST FOR MEETINGS 93,910 €

(2) SHORT-TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS 20,000 €

(3) TRAINING SCHOOLS 16,1400 €

(4) PUBLICATIONS, DISSEMINATION, OUTREACH 500 €

(5) OTHER EXPENSES 0 €

B. TOTAL SCIENCE EXPENDITURE (sum of (1) to (5)) 130,550 €

C. Financial & Scientific Administration and Coordination

(max. of 15% of B.) 19,582.5 €

D. TOTAL EXPENDITURE (B+C) 150,132 € .

3.3. Budget Status: Budget allocated for this workshop

3.3. Budget Status: Local organiser support

Local organiser support for Coimbra requires MC approval:

45 participants x 20€ per day/per participant = 1,800€ (depends on the number of participants that have finally attended the workshop, so this amount it can vary)

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– 3.1 News from the COST Office– 3.2 Status of Action, including participating countries– 3.3 Budget Status, budget planning and allocation process (LOS t.b.a)





5.2. Action budget planningWorkshops

Title: First workshop

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Date:11 and 12 November 2014

Number of participants to be reimbursed: 45

Travel costs: £500.00 20,000.00

Accommodation costs (3 nights): 120.00 14,400.00 €

Daily allowance (2 days): £20.00 4,800.00 €

Organisational support: £40.00 1,600.00 €

40,800 €

Title: Second workshop

Location: San Sebastian, Spain

Date: May, 2015


Travel costs: 500.00 20,000.00€

Accommodation costs (3 nights): £120.00 14,400.00 €

Daily allowance ( 3 days): £20.00 4,800.00 €

Organisational support: £40.00 1,600.00 €

40,800 €

Task group meeting

Title: WG task meetings

Location: t.b.d.

Date: t.b.d.


Travel costs: 500.00 6,000.00

Accommodation costs (2 nights): 120.00 3,600.00 €

Daily allowance ( 2 days): 20.00 1,800.00 €

Organisational support: 20.00/day 600.00 €

One meeting per WG 12,000.00 €

STSM

8 STSMs 20,000 €

TRAINING SCHOOLS

Title: t.b.d

Location: t,.b.d

Date: t.b.d


Trainees Grants: 1000 € 20,000.00

Number of Trainers to be reimbursed: 2

Travel costs: 1,600.00

Organisational support: 20€/day 2,000.00

23,600.00 €

5.3. Action planning

5.3. Action planning: Location of next meeting

Location: Zurich (Switzerland)Dates: 11-12 November 2015Local organiser: Ingo Burget

5.3. Action planning: Long term planning

Location and dates of future meetings:

San Sebastian, May 2015Discussion around perhaps 3-4 smaller focused working group meetings instead of a larger workshop.

STSM status

SHORT-TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS BUDGET: 20,000 € (2 500€/STSM)

6. STSM applications

Approved STSM for 2014 - 2015

Applicant Host Institution Duration (days)

Grant (€)

Heiko Lange Olena Sevastyanova (KTH) 12 1,790

Dr. Emil Engelund Lauri Rautkari (Aalto University) 5 800

8 STSM, 2 already approved and 2 requested

Requested STSM for 2014 - 2015

Applicant Host Institution

Beata Podkościelna Olena Sevastyanova (KTH)

Magdalena Sobiesiak Olena Sevastyanova (KTH)

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– 3.1 News from the COST Office– 3.2 Status of Action, including participating countries– 3.3 Budget Status, budget planning and allocation process (LOS t.b.a)





7. Publications, dissemination and outreach activities

• 2 publications to date:• Need more feedback on this

• No planned dissemination or outreach activities so far.

8. Request for new members

New requests are approved by the management committee members via email.

9. Promotion of gender balance and ESR

Year 1 Year 2Total No. of Individuals 10 2ESRs 35 6Female 4 0

Year 1 Year 20

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

147

192

30 3042

66

Total No. of individualsESRsFemale

10. Non-COST country participations

8 Non-COST countriesArgentinaAustralia

BrazilCanadaChina

New ZealandSouth Africa

US

11. AOB

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