COST Action: CA18233 - European Network for Innovative Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Neutropenias
Meeting Title: 1st Management Committee meeting
Location: 149 Avenue Louise, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
Meeting Dates:19 November 2019 from 09:30 to 17:00
Draft Agenda
- Welcome to participants
- Verification of the presence of two-thirds of the Participating COST Countries (quorum)
- Adoption of agenda
- Tour de table / introduction of the MC members
- General information on COST mechanism and on the funding and reporting of coordination activities:
- COST overview, policies and structure
- Financing COST Action activities: Administrative Rules and Guidelines, Work and Budget Plan, COST Action Grant Agreement, Financial Reporting
- Scientific/networking Reporting and Monitoring
- Agreement on the internal rules of procedure for the Management Committee of the COST Action
- Setting the frame for the Action - presentation by the Science Officer
- Budget
- Presentation of the Scientific Committee recommendations to the Action
--------------- Coffee break ---------------
- Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair
- Selection of:
- The Grant Holder institution (Scientific Representative)
- The FSAC rate for the Grant Holder institution
- Presentation and discussion of the Action
- Presentation of the Action by the "Main Proposer"/Chair of the Action (based on the Memorandum of Understanding)
- Objectives and deliverables
- Working Groups and other management roles/structures
- Implementation of COST policies on the promotion of Inclusiveness and Excellence (see below list of Inclusiveness Target Countries), gender balance and Early Career Investigators (ECI)
- MC discussion of:
- Deliverables and timeline
- Working Groups and other management roles/structures
- Implementation of Scientific Committee recommendations and COST policies
Inclusiveness Target Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.
- Presentation of the Action by the "Main Proposer"/Chair of the Action (based on the Memorandum of Understanding)
- Establishment of Action Management structure
- Election of Working Group Leaders and STSM Manager
- Election of other management roles
--------------- Lunch break ---------------
- Action implementation planning
- Development of Objective Achievement Indicators for MoU Objectives
- 1st Grant Period (GP)
- Grant Period Goals, WG tasks and deliverables
- Activity and budget planning (Work and Budget Plan preparation)
- Dissemination strategy/ planning (Publications and outreach activities)
- Any Other Business (AOB)
- Closing
Getting Here
From Brussels National Airport: Take a train to Brussels South Station (Midi/Zuid) (30 mins)
From Brussels South Station (Midi/Zuid): Take metro 2, direction Elisabeth, and get off at “Louise/Louiza” (3rd stop). Then take tram 8, direction Rodebeek or 93, direction Legrand, and get off at “Defacqz” (2nd stop).
Where to stay?
Here is a Hotels List near the COST Association.