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