NEWADA NEWSLETTER
General information:
Finally we have received the official letter from the JTS where we are officially informed that our project was approved by the SEE Monitoring Committee on March 11 2009. Furthermore we are one of very few projects that do not have any conditions to fulfil before the final approval. NEWADA was accepted as we defined it in the application form. So, first of all I would like to thank you for your contributions and input. We have proofed to be able to cooperate in an efficient and coordinated way. During the next three years there will be several other opportunities to prove this.
Next steps:
We, as the Lead Partner (LP) of the project have to submit two minor documents to the JTS and then we hope to receive the Subsidy Contract for NEWADA.This contract is the major document for our cooperation. First of all we have to submit a certification for our bank account and we also have to submit a copy of our company register.
Our IPA partners will be contacted by their Contracting Authorities to finalise the IPA issues. Costs for IPA Partners are eligible right from the moment the contract with the Contracting Authority was signed.
The Work Package Leaders (WPL) are already busy with the preparation of the document “Description of Work” (DoW), where details of each work package can be found. The first draft of this document will be presented at the Status meeting on May 12th 2009.
Meetings:
So far two Work Package Leader (WPL) meetings took place. Both events were organised in Viennawhere organisational issues have been discussed.
On May 12th the first Status Meeting will be organised in Vienna where the Project Managers of all Project Partners will be invited. Agenda will be sent out within the next days.
In the afternoon of May 12threspectively on May 13thWork Package (WP) meetings for the WP 3, WP 4 and WP 5 will be organised. Here also the experts of each organisation are invited. Agenda will also be provided very soon.
On June 25 to 26 the first Board of Directors (BoD) meeting will take place in Vienna. The BoD is on one hand the steering committee for the project and on the other hand responsible for fulfilling tasks within WP6.
On September 16ththe next WPL Meeting will take place in Bucharest.
On September 17ththe second NEWADA Status Meeting will be organised in Bucharest.
Please save the dates for those meetings. Invitations, agenda and travel information will be submitted in due time.