New rules from July 2000. Why ?

ALADIN project is a project, a bigger project every year, and already an old project. Did you notice it ?

• OLD :

It will be 9 years old soon ... and the French Ministery (MAE) ask for a report on the benefits of the bilateral cooperation since the beginning of the project. Other similar requests could arrived at this stage of the project.

• BIG :

Before the end of the year, 200 persons will have participated to ALADIN for a global effort over 200 person.year. Now, ALATNET will give a new boost to ALADIN ... and a new boost to administrative constraints (just have a look to the ALATNET planning on the web ).

• PROJECT :

Sorry but I must confirm : ALADIN IS a project, although a magic one !... and its administrative management (not magic at all) could not remain like at its beginning. We must obey many rules and try to save time to do something else than dealing with rules.

That's why I will propose you ... rules. New rules for the ALADIN game ... new rules for the statistics and the newsletters. These rules will help to obey the ALATNET contract with the European Commission, will help to find a solution to your requests in Cracow meeting, will be officialized in the MoU, ...

NEWSLETTERS :

• Newsletters twice a year dealing with one half-year with deadline for contributions = one month after the end of the period (i.e. end of July for the Newsletter dealing with the first six months).
• Articles are, of course, welcome.
• The Newsletter will contain an individual report of the ALATNET young researchers (pre and post-doc) and the other ALADIN PhD students.
• Summaries of the ALATNET work, the ALADIN non-ALATNET work, in Toulouse/ outside, in the ALATNET centers/outside, ... will be presented.
• ALADIN and ALATNET statistics will be included in the Newsletter.

STATISTICS :

It is no longer possible to calculate statistics on different periods following the sorting of the work : now, we register Toulouse work, LACE work in Prague and ALATNET work in the ALATNET centers immediately whereas a 3 months delay is given to deported work (such as ALADIN non-ALATNET work in an ALATNET center ...). For Prague, it is even worse with LACE/non-LACE , ALATNET/non-ALATNET !...

The 3 months' lag for deported work had been introduced due to the initial difficulties in collecting the information. But, it seems that the lag is no use ... as many countries don't send me informations in time, even after recalls.

Thus, the simplest is to harmonize things. A ONE MONTH'DELAY will be given to everybody (as soon as the current transitional period is finished).

Next statistics to be produced will be updated at the end of June for all sorts of work (all informations MUST BE SENT before 15 August, special delay for this first attempt, using the new forms prepared for effort accounting).

For the Assembly of Partners, we will give statistics at the end of September 2000 for everybody and only informations given before the end of October will be taken into account.

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