Second six-monthly periodic report

6. Conclusions and Lessons Learnt

It can be summarised as follows:

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  The visit was very useful for both Dr. Stokic and his Institute (ATB-Bremen) and SZTAKI to ensure their further co-operation.
  
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  The experts at SZTAKI have openly presented all their results and enabled the visitor to fully get acquainted with the current practice at the Institute and to learn about the main RTD results.
  
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  The conditions provided by SZTAKI (organisation of the visit, accommoda­tion etc.,) were excellent.
  
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  The technical infrastructure provided at SZTAKI is optimal for visits like this.
  

Based on the experience gained during this visit and the results achieved, it can be concluded as follows:

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  Visits like this appear to be very useful for establishing tight collaborations among RTD organisations in Europe.
  
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  It would be useful to make visits in both directions possible within the CEO, i.e., to provide support for the experts from the Enlargement countries to visit organisations in the EU in order to further support co-operation between European organisations.
  
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  A higher flexibility in planning the visits could be beneficial; since periods of 6 weeks are relatively long for any expert to be away from his offices,. Allowing breaking the visits into two or more shorter periods would be useful.
  

Appendix:

Workplan for the Visiting Expert, Dr. Dragan Stokic during his stay at the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA SZTAKI, as a Centre of Excellence titled by the EU according to the EU contract ICAI-CT-2000-70025

Six-week-visit: August, 2001 – 3O, September, 2001

21-23. August

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  Getting acquainted with the technical environment at SZTAKI
  
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  Learning about the current research themes and specific projects running at SZTAKI
  
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  Start learning and understanding the local/national solutions, requirements, specific needs
  

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  23. August Initial presentation of the expertise and research themes
  
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  Initial discussion on common research themes with experts at SZTAKI