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The following projects were invited for the hearings with the European Commission:

* EGEE-III
* DEISA2
* OMII-Europe-2
* EELA2
* ETICS-II
* BalticGrid-II

The EGEE-III hearing was held on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd October in Brussels to answer the 9 questions we had received the week before. The team of 4 representatives from EGEE was:

Bob Jones (project director), Ian Bird (head of SA1), Cal Loomis (head of NA4) and Aleksandar Belic (PMB chair).

It was a very formal meeting that last only 1 hour. There were 20+ reviewers in the room as well as the EC representatives (Kyriakos Baxevanidis & Enric Mitjana).

Following the presentation (see the slides attached)  there were a number of further questions from the reviewers. These additional questions, which were on the same subjects as the original 9, had to be written down by the reviewers and passed to the chairman who then read them out. No dialog was possible with the reviewers and it was difficult to understand the meaning of some of the questions but we did answer all of them. Following the end of the questions we were escorted out of the building. Given the formality of the meeting it was difficult for us to assess the impact we made with the presentation and the answers to the additional questions.

The next step is to receive the Evaluation Summary Report which we believe will arrive this week. Assuming EGEE-III is selected for funding, we should then receive a letter of invitation for negotiations during November.