Milestones & Deliverables

fist reporting period (June 2010)

What has been done so far

Our website is up and running

• http://sust-rus.org/ Our Internal Meetings

• this is our IM3 (IM1 – kick off in February, IM2 – Internet-conference in May)

• after each IM we issue IM minutes Our Newsletter

• we give the progress update and share the news in our Newsletter

• it is published about 2 times a year → http://sust-rus.org/publications Our Deliverables

• within WP1 (Development of the methodology) we submitted to EC two deliverables: Overview of the relevant literature (M6) and Description of the modelling methodology (M9) → http://sust-rus.org/publications

What we are doing

WP2: Data collection and analysis• Task 2.1 – Russian regional data

• all Russian partners submit the data (summer 2009)

• CEFIR assembles the database (September-November 2009)

• Task 2.2 – Analysis of Russian regional data

• ZEW (?) develops the methodology for the assessment of data quality (November-December 2009)

• according to this methodology partners evaluate the data quality on seven Federal Districts of RF (January 2010)

• and then write reports (March 2010)

• IET – Central and South Districts

• VSU – North-Western District

• USU – Ural and Volga Federal Districts

• FECED – Far East and Siberian Districts

• Task 2.3 – Build a SUST-RUS model database with description

• CEFIR builds a model with description based on other partners’ reports (March 2010)

WP2 Deliverables (M15 – March 2010)• D2.1 – Description of the constructed database (CEFIR)• D2.2 – The database for the model (CEFIR)

What we are doing

WP3: General structure of the model• Task 3.1 – Mathematical formulation of the general model structure

• Task 3.2 – Model building

• Task 3.3 – Construction of the model parameters

• Task 3.4 – Calibration of the model

• TML - model code (December 2009)

• TML - plugs in data (results form WP2 - team leader CEFIR) (December 2009)

• TML - sends results to other teams (January 2010)

• other teams - results assessment (February 2010)

• other teams - scenario formulation (December 2009 – February 2010)

WP3 Deliverables (M18 – June 2010)

• Preliminary results are presented at the seminar in April

• D3 – Description of the general structure of the SUST-RUS model (TML)

What we are doing

WP4: Sustainability indicators• Task 4.1 – Literature review of sustainability indicators

• Task 4.2 – Construction of the set of the social indicators

• Task 4.3 – Construction of the set of the economic indicators

• Task 4.4 – Construction of the set of the environmental indicators

• Task 4.5 – Development of the policy assessment framework

• WP4 leader → TML

• other partners → form up a list of indicators that regional authorities are using (well-defined in terms of the model output)(March 2010)

• TML → makes the framework for indicators, chooses indicators (April 2010)

WP4 Deliverables (M18 – June 2010)

• D4 – Description of a set of sustainability indicators for the SUST-RUS model (TML)

Save the date

Our next internal meeting (IM4) and an academic seminar in Ekaterinburg

• April 23-24, 2010, Ekaterinburg – interregional conference “Economical development in the modern world:

sustainable development and ways of after-crises growth” → SUST-RUS round table

• April 25 (or 26?), 2010, Ekaterinburg – IM4: Discussion and Presentation of results of WP2, WP3 and WP4

IM4: Tentative agenda

• Progress on data collection in WP2 and on model structuring in WP3 and WP4

• Presentation of D2 (Description of the constructed database), CEFIR

• Action plan and discussion of deliverables D3 and D4 due in June 2010 (ZEW, TML)

June 2010 – end of the 1st reporting period

• within 40 days after the first reporting period we will have to submit the Report to the European Commission

Plans for the future

Plan of SUST-RUS IMs and public seminars in brief: • IM1 – February 2009, Moscow

• IM2 – May 2009, Internet-conference

• IM3 – October 2009, Moscow

• IM4 + Public Seminar – April 2010, Ekaterinburg

• IM5 – October 2010, Moscow (?)

• IM6+ Public Seminar – April 2011, Vladivostok (?)

• SUST-RUS Conference – October 2011, Moscow

Milestones & Deliverables List in detail is presented in:

• Annex I – Description of Work

• http://sust-rus.org/project stages

• Project Presentation → http://sust-rus.org/publications