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MeDON Project Meeting Summary: Project Progress and Future Endeavors

Read about the recent MeDON project meeting with updates on project completion, financial management, technology, feasibility, and public outreach. Explore aims, reporting periods, and collaboration opportunities for sustainable partnerships and future funding mechanisms.

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MeDON Project Meeting Summary: Project Progress and Future Endeavors

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  1. MeDON: Welcome and aims of the meeting Tim Smyth

  2. Now completed 5/6 of project • MeDON Interreg project ends 31/10/2012 • 235 days to go … • Aims of meeting: • To ensure that everything in place for deployment of cable (during April – updates from IFREMER) • To ensure that we capitalise on cable for instrument deployments (ENSTA, PML, UoP) • To ensure that we capitalise on cable for outreach activities (NMA, Oceanopolis) • Reporting period 5: end 31/3/2012 • Need to enter everything by 13/4/2012

  3. MeDON: Finances and project management Tim Smyth

  4. Financial – this to ensure that we are spending correctly …

  5. WP1 – Co-ordination Project co-ordination and overall management • 1.3 Progress report (PML) – your inputs due by 13/4/2012 • 1.4 Newsletter (PML) – prefer to actually have news(!); waiting on the dry and wet tests and deployment

  6. WP3 - Technology • 3.1 Instrument packages: expecting wet and dry tests during March (IFREMER, PML, ENSTA) • 3.4 Logistics: will need to write up diary of events for the deployment of the cable from beginning to end (IFREMER) • 3.5 Development and fabrication of the proof of concept: Cable to be deployed (April 2012); Instruments attached. • 3.6 Accoustics to be plugged into cable (April 2012)

  7. WP4 - Feasibility • 4.1 Economic model for phase II (PML) – report being finalised, submitted in next reporting period • 4.2 Site surveys – reports required for both sides of the Channel (IFREMER, PML) • 4.3 Legal Framework – will be tied up with 4.1 • 4.4 Early test of the proof-of-concept via pilot site – (IFREMER, others); starting in April 2012

  8. WP5 – Public outreach etc. • 5.1: Touring exhibition, public outreach web portal, best practice model, report on public awareness, report on learning outcomes, educative activities, storyboard and bi-lingual questionnaires. • 5.2: Sustainability of the partnership • 5.3: Disseminate outcomes and achievements, regionally and European level: final conference?

  9. What next? Open discussion. • Future of the partnership • Possible future funding mechanisms • Conferences / workshops / papers

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