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** DCM ** EGEE-3 – Bob Jones The following projects were invited for the hearings with the European Commission: EGEE-III, DEISA2, OMII-Europe-2, EELA2, ETICS-II and 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 lasted only 1 hour. There were 20+ reviewers in the room as well as the EC representatives (Kyriakos Baxevanidis & Enric Mitjana). Following the presentation 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. The Evaluation Summary Reports for EGEE-3 and ETICS-2 have now been received, which put both of these CERN projects in the top two positions. Wolfgang congratulated the two projects on this excellent result. After the meeting, it has been confirmed that EGEE-III and ETICS-2 were invited for a pre-negotiation meeting on the 19/20 November. Related projects – Frédéric Hemmer Based on the Evaluation Summary Reports received by the projects, Frédéric will update the summary paper to send to the DG next week. Tim Smith reported that the HEPIS project proposal (the Marie Curie replacement project) which was going through the “redress” procedure, has not been successful and the procedure will now be stopped. A separate proposal may be made to a different call.
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