09 November 2017 – ‘EXCELSIOR’ at Teaming Phase 1 Coordinators Meeting

Professor Diofantos Hadjimitsis (EXCELSIOR’s coordinator) and Dr Kyriacos Neocleous (member of EXCELSIOR’s quality assurance team) attended the Teaming Phase 1 Coordinators Meeting, an event organised on 9th November 2017 by the EC’s Research Executive Agency in Brussels (Covent Garden Building). The meeting included welcome speeches by Marc Bellens (Head of Department REA-B) and Mr. Peter van De Zandt (Head of Unit REA-B5) as well as presentations on a range of aspects relating to Phase 1 and Phase 2 Teaming projects. Professor Andreja Kutnar (Director of the ongoing InnoRenew Centre of Excellence) also made a presentation on her experience as coordinator of a Teaming Phase 2 project, while Inka Vaverkova (representative of the Czech Ministry of Education) made a presentation on the role of managing authorities in Teaming projects. At the end of the meeting, Professor Hadjimitsis and Dr Neocleous had a bilateral meeting with Mr Yiannis Vacondios (EXCELSIOR’s EC project officer) to discuss the progress of the EXCELSIOR project. During the event, the EXCELSIOR team also had the opportunity to meet the coordinators of other ongoing Teaming Phase 1 projects.