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1、An Integrated Project under EU 6th Framework ProgrammeKick-off meeting, Hamburg 15-16 September 2004Chris Hewitt, Met Office Hadley Centre, UKchris.hewittmetoffice.gov.uk,ENSEMBLES, Crown copyright 2004,History,2002 Jun: Expressions of Interest submitted for 3 separate Integrated Projects - IMPRESS,

2、 EURIPIDES, GENIE Dec: EC released the 1st call for the Thematic sub-priority 1.1.6.3 on Global Change and Ecosystems2003 Feb: Meeting held in Amsterdam. Merged IMPRESS, EURIPIDES, GENIE to form ENSEMBLES to fully address the 1st call for Topic I.4a for “Integrated climate change scenarios”.Formed a

3、 consortium to integrate the efforts of the global and regional climate model, climate impacts and socio-economic model communities to produce internally consistent, thoroughly evaluated information at the seasonal to decadal and longer timescales, to the user community!, Crown copyright 2004,Histor

4、y continued,2003 cont. Apr: ENSEMBLES 123 page proposal submitted, 20 million of EC funding requested Jun: ENSEMBLES evaluated very highly, 15 million of EC funding Jul: enter contract negotiation. ENSEMBLES Management Board (EMB) met in Amsterdam to discuss evaluation and budget. Attended by Ib Tro

5、en Aug03-Jan04: Worked on Consortium Agreement Oct: EMB met in Hamburg to discuss progress with Description of Work (DoW) Dec: DoW vn1.0 (193 pages) and CPFs submitted to Ib for comments, Crown copyright 2004,History continued,2004 Jan: received Ibs revisions for the DoW Feb: sent preliminary respon

6、se to the revisions Feb: Georgios Amanatidis becomes EC Project Officer for ENSEMBLES Mar: sent revised DoW (vn1.2, 265 pages) to Georgios May: negotiation meeting in Brussels (Amanatidis, Griggs, Hewitt, Broad) resulting in Actions for acceptance of DoW May: EMB met with Georgios in Reading to disc

7、uss completion of Actions Jun: DoW (vn1.4, 304 pages) accepted Sep: project started and kick-off meeting held in Hamburg, Crown copyright 2004,Description of Work,Main changes to the structure are in the following sections:Section 2 Project Goal and 6 objectives, each with operational goals and meas

8、ures of successSection 6.1 the 5 year plans. Each RT has:Aim, Primary Objectives, Current state of knowledge, scientific/technical questions, Work Packages and associated TasksSection 8.6 first 18 months for each RTeach WP has Objectives, Tasks, Deliverables and Milestones, Crown copyright 2004,Mana

9、gement RT0, Crown copyright 2004,RT0 will:,Provide overall co-ordination and top-level management for your project.Note: each RT has its own internal management (WPx.0, Steering Groups)A challenge - 5 year project70 partners from Europe, USA, Australia10 RTs (each similar in size to FP5 projects) Mo

10、nitor milestones and deliverables Transmit reports, information and deliverables to the EC Administer funds, deliver audits from the participants to the EC Organise and chair the annual General Assembly and EMB meetings Host top-level web page for the projectNote: each RT will additionally have thei

11、r own web page Work with the RTs (particularly RT8) to disseminate information from the project to scientific community, stakeholders, policymakers and the public, Crown copyright 2004,Communication Meetings,Kick-off meeting to include the first meeting of the General Assembly, RT meetings, and EMB

12、Annual General Assembly to discuss progress and plans EMB to meet as often as required (at least once a year) Regular RT and WP meetings mainly to discuss science (could coincide with external conferences) End of project conference to showcase the projects outcomes Project Office and Project Officer

13、 to meet regularly, Crown copyright 2004,Communication Reports,Every 12 months the consortium will submit 4 reports to the EC:1. Activity report for the previous year Overview of activities carried out Progress towards objectives, milestones, deliverables Description of training activities 2. Manage

14、ment report for the previous year Justification of resources deployed by each participant Financial statement prepared by each participant Audit certificate from each participant Summary financial report prepared by the co-ordinator 3. Updated implementation plan for the following 18 months 4. Finan

15、cial plan containing estimated costs for each participant for the following 18 months,Reports (including audit certificates) and deliverables, need to be submitted to the EC within 45 days! To coordinate all of this, input for reports needed promptly, and all audit certificates to be sent to the co-

16、ordinator within 30 days., Crown copyright 2004,Communication Other,Web sites: Top-level web site is http:/www.ensembles-eu.org Currently no ENSEMBLES logo Each RT will develop their own RT-specific web sites in coming monthsE-mail. We currently have the following lists: Project-wide list of one or

17、two email addresses per participant (e.g. “Authorised Contact Person” from CPF, PIs from each participant) Each RT has their own internal list A list for the EMB members Project Office can be contacted on ensemblesfp6metoffice.gov.uk, Crown copyright 2004,Upcoming Milestones and Deliverables,51 mile

18、stones/deliverables due in first year. The immediate ones are: Month1 M2A.1 specification of common list of fields Month2 D0.1 kick-off meetingD0.2 Director and Secretary appointed Month3 M2A.2 choice of common set of forcingsM2A.3 choice of scenarioswebsites for several RTs Month6 D2B.1 experimenta

19、l plan for 20km RCMD2B.3 server for RCM output dataD3.1.1/M3.1 definition/specification of non-climatic regional changesD7.1 ensemble of adapted IPCC scenariosD8.2/M8.2 project publicity material, Crown copyright 2004,Remaining meeting schedule,Today 19:00: dinner at Hotel YoHoTomorrow 09:00-12:00:

20、separate and joint RT meetings10:30-11:00 coffee12:00-13:30 lunch13:30-15:00: short presentations from each RT (5-10 mins each), to report back on project-wide issues and ideas, planned meetings, interlinkages15:00-15:30 coffee15:30-16:30 separate and joint RT meetings16:30-17:00: concluding remarksFriday: ENSEMBLES Management Board,