Newsletter
– August 2013
| General and administrative issues |
✓ Consortium Agreement : The lawyers from the KIC have sent their feedback. Our CA is consistent with the KIC's expectations but a few minor amendments have to be brought.
The lead partner is working with Véronique Grouard on these.
The KIC headquarters requested us to have a signed CA by August 23rd 2013. Pascal asked for a one month delay, because most administration are on summer vacation in August.
✓ The PGAs process is almost over. A few minor details remain regarding the KCAs or the CNRS budget but all budgets involving an EIT contribution for 2013 have been validated by Daniel Zimmer.
| Project ecosystem |
✓ Pascal's proposal (A2C2: Atmospheric flow analogues and Climate Change) to the European Research Council (ERC, Senior Grant) has been accepted. One of its component is the statistical study of "never observed before" events (or "black swans").
| Events |
✓ Dialogue café “INTEGRATED DATA AND MONITORING” for sustainable urban management (Sofia, Bulgaria 18 – 19 September 2013). The “Integrated Data and Monitoring” Dialogue Cafe will focus on the need of quality and integrated information and permanent monitoring of urban changes for better understanding the urban development processes and applying an integrated urban management approach. More information about the venue and the draft agenda of the event here
✓ The Adaptation Services (AS) platform is organising a meeting on November 19th in Bologna. The aim of this meeting is to get the Climate-KIC adaptation services community together. More information ca be asked to Harilaos Loulos or Ralf Toumi.
✓ The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be held in San Francisco between December 9 and 13. To be noticed : a session untitled : "Climate Services: Translating Climate Science into Societal Benefit at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales". More information can be found here
| What's next ? |
✓ A meeting involving the SMEs and Jean-Christophe Duval (KIC Entrepreneuship lead) on the WP 2 / business model issue will be held on September 20th. This meeting will be held in Paris (exact location tbd).
✓ A weather generator workshop will be held on October 15th 2013 (location tbd, certainly Jussieu, Paris). This meeting will aim at discussing the scientific issues related to the WGs, notably regarding the tests.
