Second MONET Management Board meeting26th October 2006
Berlin
1. Workload distribution2. Present status concerning and strategy for filling the vacancies in Aarhus, Berlin, and Lyon3. Formalities: budget, payments, audit certification, reporting, CDPs, secondments, consortium agreement, acceptance of PhD-students, etc.4. The first workshop: date and contents5. Science: what research do we want to do? Presentation of PhD student projects and discussion6. Other questions
Starting datearound 1 Nov.
Starts in midNovember(don’t forgetthe declarationof conformity!)
Vacancies in Aarhus, Berlin, and Lyon
Restrictions when filling:
•one more non-European can be accepted (if and only if all vacancies are filled)•vacancies should be filled on January, 1st, at latest
Vacancies are presently beingannounced on the followingwebsites:
•Marie Curie Opportunities Search Tool•ERAcareers
(the positions were announcedon tiptop.iop.org until 15th October)
What is the present status?
Acceptance of PhD-students
• I do not have any (e-mail) copies of the agreement to accepting Georgios Fradelos from Nottingham, Madrid, and Reading.
Career Development Plans
• Acceptance by the MB still postponed untilwe have hired all students.
Contract with the Commission and Consortium
AgreementYou will find the following in the
envelopes:• Copy of the contract amendment –
please forward to the responsible persons
• Signature pages for the Consortium Agreement
• Signature pages for the Consortium Agreement addendum
BudgetDistributed Pre-financing
I still need an estimate for the audit certification costs frommost of you ...
Please make sure you get the amounts right paid out to your fellows:A and C are country-dependent,B depends on the distance between the origin of the researcher and thelocation of the host,C depends on the family situation (married and/or children)-- Please refer to the EST handbook (you can find it on the networkweb)
Eligible costs
• Costs might be considered to be eligible by your auditor, but not by the Commission (for example computers)
• The Commission may carry out additional audits during the entire project period plus up to five years after the end of the project
• Costs considered ineligible will have to be paid back
Periodical reports
• Due in January• You have to fill in by yourself, send in
electronically, print out paper copy and get it signed and sent to Lund:Financial statement (Form C),Excel sheets
• You have to deliver information to Lund for:Periodical Activity Report,Periodical Management Report,Summary Financial Report,Funding Distribution Report
Reporting guidancePlease read this document!
Reporting package: containsthe excel files to be filled in
Practical reporting I
Practical reporting II
RegisterReport
Fill in questionnaires
Secondments
• In the contract we say that the fellows shall spent 25% elsewhere.
• Scientifically and educationwise to me this seems to much.
• It might also be a problem budgetwise.’• Already ideas about secondments? (see
alsoscientific discussion later on)
The first workshop: possible dates
LU AU Nott FHI ENS UAM Read
5/6 February
8/9 February
12/13 February
5/6 March
8/9 Marchpreferabl
y not
12/13 March
preferably not
15/16 March
The first workshop: organisationand contents
• Organisation committee?• Contents ...? (the original title from
the application is ”Surface science at phase boundaries: Towards understanding real systems”)
•Investigations of nitrogen-complexated transition metals
•Interaction of surface molecular networks with water and ice
•On-surface-synthesis: organic chemistry in two dimensions
•Self-assembly of surface nanostructures on di-electric substrates
•Three-dimensional molecular self-assembly at the solid-vacuum and solid-liquid interface
•Hydrogen-bonded mixed bio-molecular network formation at the solid-vacuum and solid-liquid interface
•Theoretical nanoscience of ice nucleation at metal surfaces
•Multiscale modeling of molecular diffusion and molecular network formation
•Vibrational Spectroscopy of Quinoline Derivatives on Hydrated Metallic Surfaces From First-Principle Approaches
•Inelastic Vibration Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy of Flavin adsorbed on Metallic Surfaces From First-Principles
•Metal-organic networks for low-temperature catalysis: high pressure stability and functionality
•Adsorption / solvation on solid and quasi-liquid ice surfaces
•Chirality at Surfaces?
•Chemical activity in 2D organic and organometallic networks studied at the single-molecule level
•Growth and characterization of self-assembled organic and organometallic monolayers by He scattering techniques
Projects