”The Baltic Sea” euroCRIS membership meeting 5/2007 proposal

University of Helsinki / Baltic Sea / Vikingline

10.-12.5.2006

Markku Niemi

Project Manager

Central administration

Research affairs

My background

Worked for University of Helsinki since 1986

Master of social sciences, 1989

”IS biased” studies and work history

Since 2004, project manager of development of reseach management

information systems

Project administration guidance for researches and project managers/administrators

PROMIS – project management information system for research projects

R-EDI – electronic data interchange between university and funding agencies

MediCRIS – a research group leader and researcher oriented CRIS pilot for the

faculty of medicine

In charge of two cruise ship seminaars for 70 software engineering

association members University of Helsinki euroCRIS member since 5/2006

Meeting arrangement summary 1/2

University of Helsinki center campus as location not possible

10.-11.5.2007

because of Eurovision song contest: all hotels fully booked!

Next week is available if rescheduling the meeting is an option

Initial reservation for 50: Hotel night 150€ (single room)

Total cost 400€/person

Cruise option Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki 10.-12.5.2007

booked initially for 50 persons (maximum) on Vikingline

Cost 300€/person

2 nights in single cabins

1 lunch, 2 sea breakfasts, 2 dinners, coffees

15 hours of meeting room time

Start on Thursday 10th at 13:00 on board the ship (departure 16:45),

end on Saturday 12th at 10:00

Meeting arrangement summary, 2/2

Two sponsors committed for totalling 4000 eur

Cerion ltd, a small consulting company

Solenovo ltd, a small software vendor sompany

Both are our vendors, expecting visibility and giving a presentation

Proposed workshop theme: project management

Project is one of the fundamental demensions of CERIF

”traditional” project management with the idea of ”strict supervision of

the road to well-defined goals” criticized by academia

Emerging new agile project thinking

UH’s research management development program to converge

traditional CRIS, project management and EDI between research

funding agencies and university

Your choice! Land or sea?

Land: 10.-11.5. not possible in Helsinki, next week feasibleTotal ´cost 400€/person in a good hotel, with current sponsoring: 250€/person (30 attending).

Sea: 10.-12.5.2007.Total cost 300€/pers, with current sponsoring level:150€/person (30 attending).