Great thanks to Marcello Donatelli

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Great thanks to Marcello Donatelli for
organizing the meeting in ISCI-CRA
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Meeting Cocktail
Thanks to Andrea Carril and Micaela Pantano!
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CLARIS NCT1Summary of CLARIS 1st year
activitiesJean-Philippe Boulanger (CNRS) and
Carlos Ereño (UBA)

• CLARIS Consortium
• CLARIS Budget
• Web site
• Newsletter
• Dissemination activities
• Satisfaction survey (Carlos Ereño)
• Meeting agenda

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CLARIS Consortium

• Due to administrative reasons, University of
  Sao Paulo has been retrieved from the CLARIS
  project
• A new version of the consortium agreement
  without USP has been sent to the partners
• A new Description of Work (DoW) is now
  available on the CLARIS web site
• Two institutes have asked to integrate the
  CLARIS project
• INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnicas
  Agropecuarias, Argentina)-WP4.1-Unanimous
  agreement
• FUNCEME (Fundaçao Cearense de Meteorlogia e
  Recursos hidricos, Brazil)-WP4.2, WP3.2-Vote
  postponed to Saturday morning during the
  Consortium meeting

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CLARIS Budget

• EC funds sent to CNRS received at CNRS in
  December
• CNRS transferred funds in March
• Level of expenses at June, 30th less than
  50
• Financial reports must be sent to CNRS by 11th
  of July
• Both the late transfer of funds and the
  organization of the meeting in July (2nd year)
  explain the low rate of use of funds (50), it is
  asked to the EC not to reduce the 2nd year CLARIS
  budget. Such a reduction would compromise the
  ability of the project partners to catch up with
  CLARIS initial calendar.
• Georgios Amanatidis suggested that when we reach
  the 70 level, we inform the EC in order to
  initiate the the transfer of 2nd funding. Such a
  level may be reached in late July (after the
  present meeting).

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CLARIS Web SitePaula Richter

• A new version of the CLARIS web site has been
  designed by Paula Richter and is now located
  at http//www.claris-eu.org

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CLARIS Newsletter

• Second issue printed for the meeting
• Electronic versions in PDF format on the CLARIS
  web site

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CLARIS Dissemination activities

• Presentation of CLARIS by Rafael Terra on
  Climate change simulations of the South American
  Monsoon System at the Eighth Annual Meeting of
  the WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Panel (VPM8), at Mexico
  City, MX, 7-9 March 2005
• Presentation of CLARIS by Carlos Ereño on CLARIS
  overview at the 12th meeting of the IAI
  (Inter-American Institute for Global Change
  Research) Conference of the Parties (CoP), at
  Montreal, Canada, May 5/6, 2005.
• Presentation of CLARIS and the pilote project
   Climate and Dengue  by Nicolas Degallier at
  the EC Workshop on  Climate Change and Health
  Impacts  organized at Bruxelles on June, 13th,
  2005.

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Objective
CLARIS Satisfaction Survey

• To evaluate the project management, dynamics and
  support to participants
• To get the thought of the partners to improve
  different aspects of CLARIS

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Items included in the survey
CLARIS Satisfaction Survey

• Managing
• Organization of meetings
• Web site
• Newsletter
• Data Server
• Communications
• Work Packages

Answers received
Europe 3 South America 8 Total 11
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
1. Managing
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
2. Organization of meetings
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
3. Web site
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
4. Newsletter
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
5. Data server
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
6. Communications
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CLARIS Satisfaction Survey
7. Work Packages
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Comments
CLARIS Satisfaction Survey

• Web site
• I have not visited the web site
• Newsletter
• No Neswletter has been published yet
• I think that the newsletter may be a little bit
  too long and too "technical" to really increase
  CLARIS visibility.
• It is too soon to really assess if it could be
  useful for my own activities in the project,
  however, it might not be the prior objective of
  the newsletter
• Data server
• I did not have to use it yet
• DODS is useful to my activities. I am working
  with IOCC data

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Conclusions
CLARIS Satisfaction Survey

• Only eleven partners replied to the survey. GREAT
  THANKS!
• Useful comments to take some actions
• Newsletter
• Inter-WP meetings in Bologna
• Copies of the results of the survey are available
  for all participants.

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Meeting Agenda
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