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B. October
3rd, 2003, Friday: The formal reporting day
Chair: Marco Antonio Estrela (ISQ, Coordinator)
9:50 Welcome from the Coordinator
10:00 Summary of the preceding day - Jan
Owsiński (SRI PAS)
10:20 Reports from the representatives of
particular WPs:
10:20 WP 1 - Jitka Kubesova (GEO) - see
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WP1-rep-Waw - this presentation, the
same as during the preceding day, but with different emphases, was
complemented by the appeal from Zuzana Boukalova for the necessary
information and the establishment of the Local Steering Committees; this was
paralleled by Marco Estrela on the necessity of complying with the
time-table and the obligations taken; a more detailed discussion concerned
the timing of the LSC establishment and meetings in particular areas; it was
generally agreed that the process must be finished soon, in any case during
winter 2003/2004
10:40 WP 2 - Silvia Bertolin and Jacobo Feas (FEEM)
- see -
TRANSCAT WP2 - 03 - this
presentation called for an active input from the partners to WP 2,
especially what regards the conference in Venice in March 2004; a part of
these issues were transferred to the Project Board meeting in the afternoon
(proposals for (i) invited speakers; (ii) UNESCO invitees; (iii) paper
proposal reviewers); the questions and answers that followed regarded:
proposal for an invited lecturer - Peter Zeil from the University of
Salzburg (Zuzana Boukalova), possibility of exploring the implementation
guidelines of the EC (Jiri Horak), the necessity of clear statement of
domain and purpose for the papers and materials, against the background of
some "integrating" experiences (Jan Owsinski), and the possibility of direct
collaboration with some other relevant undertakings (Eco-Geo-Water,
Mantra-East,...) (Giorgio Saio, Marco Estrela)
11:00 Coffee break
11:15
Reports continued:
11:15 WP 3 - Jiri Horak (TUO) -
presentation similar as the day before, but with different aspects
emphasised
WP3_WAR;
the discussion, which
followed, involving - except for Jiri Horak - Giorgio Saio, Zuzana Boukalova,
Marco Estrela and Jan Owsiński, focussed on end-user identification and
involvement, the role of questionnaires etc., the main conclusions being
that an effort must be made in all cases to have the bodies responsible for
catchment-oriented decision making (DM) involved, and that descriptions must
be provided of the managerial & DM structures proper for each country's case,
whether through respective questionnaires or special elaborates; another
issue was harmonisation of data with the WFD guidelines and ISO norms; a new
version of the data specification document is prepared and will be
distributed soon
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Reports continued:
13:30 WP 4 - Till Rubbert and Tilman Mieseler (RUB)
- see -
RUB-WP4; the discussion regarding
this presentation concerned the norms related to data definition and
measurements (a succinct summary of respective norms will be provided), and
the nature of the German-Czech pilot region (catchment? geographical region?
economic region?); the latter issue seemed to require additional
explanations/justification
13:50 WP 5 - Jan Owsiński (SRI PAS) - see -
a.
TRANSC-WP5-01, b.
SRI-PAS-WP5-02; a brief report only
was presented on this just starting workpackage; the question was asked of
the relation with the "prototype" being developed by TUO - in response Jan
Owsinski said that this prototype will be taken over (in the sense yet to be
defined) and further developed, first of all with addition of features
related to the decision analytic applications and potential links to models;
another question referred to pilot site implementations - the response was
that this is not within the competence of WP 5, though in close relation to,
and that it is envisaged to proceed with implementation for just one pilot
site within the course of work on the DSS; one of the outputs from the DSS
should be the procedure for implementation; Jiri Horak emphasised that one
should not imagine the out put as a commercial DSS software nor as a "final"
implementation, also due to data problems; in this context it is of special
importance to use as much as possible the synergy with other EC projects and
programs; there was a rejoinder from Jan Owsinski on the assumed/specified
use of other products and modules, elaborated outside of the project, and
the definition of functionality
14:10 WP 6 - in place of a report there was a
quick overview of the data situation in particular pilot regions; Marco
Estrela pointed out that the Guadiana river basin has been used by the
Portuguese government for testing the guidelines related to WFD, the
respective data for the area are freely available on-line ( http://snirh.inag.pt/index.php?idioma=eng
), starting with 1920, and there is a close collaboration with an institute
(INAG) working on the area.
14:20 WP 7 - the workpackage has not started
yet; instead, George Lev presented a proposal for a DVD meant for effective
dissemination of knowledge on the TRANSCAT project, its contents and output
- see a.
DVD demo-outline, b.
DVD-idea ; this was followed by a
discussion in which two issues were raised: (i) the necessity of having a
more precise cost outline before any decisions could be made, and the
possibility of dividing up the cost between the between the partners and the
dissemination activities of the Project; (ii) the required input from the
partners (materials)
14:40 WP 9 - since WP 8 will start in about one
year, Marco Estrela proceeded to the project management issues, associated
with WP 9, see -
Project status - , and especially the
Milestones (1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1) and the Deliverables (1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2)
and the state of affairs with this respect; further, in this connection the
shifts in the work plan (task terminations) were announced: Task 1.1: till
the end of month 9, Task 1.4: through the second round of meetings, to be
done as soon as possible; Tasks 3.1 and 3.2 - till the end of month 9,
similarly as Tasks 4.1 and 6.3; Task 4.2 - till the end of month 11, Tasks
6.4 and 6.5 - till the end of month 10, and Task 6.5 - start to month 6 and
termination to month 15; it was also announced that amendments will be
necessary to the six-month report, to be specified in an e-mailed message;
the annual report should be ready by the end of February 2004; a hope was
expressed that a preliminary screening of the report could be arranged
15:15 Coffee break
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