We were excited. Henrik Sand administrator(who actually was terrible sick), Peter Øhrstrøm chairman and I. But we needed not be so. The meeting with Project Officer Anne Salaun was held in a relaxed and open atmosphere. We received new comments from Anne and hope we can get them done before March 5th.Agenda
1. Bringing my soul to Brussels
2. Negotiations with Project Officer Anne Salaun
3. Afterthought
Bringing my soul to Brussels
I wanted to go to Brussels and experience the center of the European Commity, visit my cousin Henrik and bring my soul to with me to the meeting.
It was a good idea. My cousin Henrik is informationofficer at the European Parliment and he gave a experience of the EC Parliment and how it works. Henrik and his wife has been working in Brussels for almost 18 years. Furthermore he gave me an oppurtunity to meet the danish members of the Parliment, which was very valuable for HANDS. Especially to talk with xxx, who is member of the udvalg, which manage the budget of the ICT-research.
I had a little time by myself and a time with Henrik and his wife.
Negotiations with Project Officer Anne Salaun
The meeting was held in not to exciting 5 store concrete building in the ourskirts of Brussels.
Not very exciting but ok.
Anne Salaun appeared to be a kind woman who had the job to secure, that Annex I, our organisation and our documents made it possible to sign a contract and monitor the project.
The agenda of the meeting was the comments that the Evaluators had been giving in the "Evaluation Summary Report" and Annes own comments to the rewritten Proposal(now Annex I). All comments was about contractual or monitoring issues.
Small pieces of the Annex I was considered - never the overall goals.
The result of the meeting was yet another list of comments to our documents(Annex I and all the administrative stuff) which had to be corrected. At the moment, we do not know, how much work is needed.Afterthought
We were very worried before hand. A lot. Afterwards we consider Anne Salaun as a collaborationpartner.
The comments that we have to work on is some which Peter, Henrik, I, Partners and Anne Salaun has to work on. She experienced that the main job were in the administrative area, which I agree. Some of the comment could possibly mean a lot of work.
But if we make it the grant will be given.
