Psg milan, 6th of july 2007

3.5Calendar for PSG meetings for 2007/2008

Proposal of calendar for PSG meetings, for 2007/2008:

• 
  PSG 4 Lyon:
  

Suggestion from the European coordination:1^st or 2^nd week of Oct.2007?

PSG Decision: To be decided by the end of the month (July 2007)

NEW DECISION (beginning of August 2007): 30 & 31 October 2007

• 
  PSG 5 Zaragoza/Lombardia:
  

Suggestion from the European coordination: end of April 2008?

PSG Decision: To be decided as soon as possible.

NEW DECISION (mid July 2007): PSG 5 will be held in Zaragoza, during April 2008.

• 
  PSG 6 Lombardia/Zaragoza
  

Suggestion from the European coordination: end of Sept- begin of Oct. 2008?

PSG Decision: To be decided as soon as possible.

NEW DECISION (mid July 2007): PSG 6 will be held in Lombardia, in fall 2008.

3.6Project reporting (Second year report):

PSG discussions and validation of the distribution of responsibility of main authors

PSG’s validation of the following:
To be done by the European coordinator:

=> To release and send to the respective leaders of WP and/or SubWP a common format to report for the coming year (2^nd Annual Year Report) by mid-September 2007.

The main elements have been outlined for future reporting:

How & what?

The need of having one and single common format for each partner:

Activity synthesis of one page + fulfilment of xls document by partners (BFBC model)+ Mandatory Language: English
Who?

The list of the main authors (i.e.: the responsible) has been validated as followed:

WP0: WP0.1: Renaissance coordinator (Hespul/GL) + WP0.2 : local coordinator (GL/Hespul + Ayto./UB)

WP1: Renaissance leader by sub-WP, i.e.: WP1.1 (GL), WP1.2 (INSA ), WP1.3 (LoM), WP1.4 (Urbic), WP1.5 (Ecodes)

WP2: Renaissance leader (UdZ)

WP3: local Leader (SEM Lyon confluence + SMRUZ)

WP4: Renaissance leader (Hespul)

WP5: Renaissance leader (Ayto.Zaragoza)
Deadline to send these reports to Hespul, as the Renaissance Coordinator:

mid- October 2007

-- END of the MINUTES --

Annex of minutes, PSG Milan,

5th & 6 th July 2007

Content:

1. 
   Letter of Lola Campos, Deputy Mayor for Environment, Zaragoza City Council
   
2. 
   Letter of Gilles Buna, Vice-President of Grand Lyon, Communauté Urbaine de Lyon
   
3. 
   University of Barcelona’s proposal of withdrawal
   
4. 
   Draft frame for a strategic plan of knowledge dissemination
   

Gilles Buna

Deputy Mayor of Grand Lyón

2 July 2007

Dear Colleague,

After the results of the last local elections held in Spain on the past 27 May 2007, a fact that has conditioned my future position in the Environment Department, at this moment, I can inform you that I will be again at the Head of the Environment Department of the City Council of Zaragoza for a new 4 year term. Therefore, we will have the chance to keep on working for the Renaissance project in which we have a common interest.

Nevertheless, I am sorry to let you know that it will be impossible for me to attend the next meeting in Milan, as other meetings have already been fixed for the same dates, but I will be following up the conclusions with the team of Zaragoza that will share working time with you.

Kind Regards,

Lola Campos

Deputy Mayor for Environment
Zaragoza City Council




Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica

Av. Diagonal 647 5ª. Planta

E-08028 Barcelona

Tel. [phone]

Fax [phone]

D Barcelona 2nd July 2007

Mr Gilles Buna

RENAISSANCE project Coordinator

Communauté Urbaine du Grand-Lyon

20 rue du Lac, 69399

LYON, FRANCE

(Copy to: Project Steering group members, Spanish project consortium members).

Dear Mr Buna,

The Universitat de Barcelona (UB) requests to be withdrawn from the RENAISSANCE project on 17^th October 2007 (at the end of the second year).

Withdrawal is requested as due to changing circumstances within the Solar Energy Group (explained below) we anticipate that we will not be able to complete our tasks in RENAISSANCE.
Explanatory notes:

Work in the Solar Energy Group is focussing on thin film photovoltaics and leaving the area of Building Integrated Renewables and, in this context, Mike Barker will be leaving the department at the end of the “SARA” project (May 2008)

No one else in the Solar Energy Group has a suitable professional profile to continue the work on RENAISSANCE for the 2½ years of the RENAISSANCE project remaining after this date.

It is not viable to contract new staff for the UB role in this project alone (less than one day/week).
These circumstances were made known by the UB to key RENAISSANCE Zaragoza and Lyon participants at the time of the first project amendment (September 2006). At this time the Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza asked UB not to withdraw at that time and it was agreed that there would be no objection to the UB withdrawal at a more convenient time in the future.

It has been agreed that the role of UB will be assumed by one or more local partners from within the consortium.

Yours sincerely,
Jordi Andreu.

Professor Titular.

Director of the Solar Energy Group,

Dep.t de Física Aplicada i Òptica, UB.

draft FRAME for a strategic plan

of knowledge dissemination

(initial version)