Newsletter – March 2013

Climate-KIC / EIT

✓ Recruitment of Hubert Santer, French Innovation Lead Assistant (of Daniel Ritti). Hubert Santer will work with Daniel Ritti and reinforce the Innovation and Pathfinder pillar of the French co-location center.
✓ Climate-KIC and EIT have signed the 2013 grant agreement. The Climate-KIC secures this way €44.3 million for climate innovation. More information can be found here .
✓ The Adaptation Services Platform is holding an Ideas Marketplace in Brussels on the 21st March. The objective of the meeting is to develop innovation project ideas for the 31st May project outline deadline.

General and administrative issues

✓ The final version of the 2012 performance report has been sent to Daniel Ritti and consequently to the Climate KIC.

Communication

✓ The E3P brochure has been finalized by ARIA Technologies and is available on ARIA's share space.

✓ The website (http://e3p.lsce.ipsl.fr) has been upgraded:
  • Drop-down menus on both public and private parts have been implemented for a better reading and view of the website.
  • Access identifications and passwords have been sent to all of you on March 5th.

WGs

✓ The WG developed by EDF can be disseminated in the E3P framework. This WG will have to be defined as a Background and is so far a joint property of EDF and CNRS. The reference publication for this WG is still under review.