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provided by IAGA, was used to cover partly travel costs <strong>of</strong> 6 participants, ei<strong>the</strong>r coming from <strong>the</strong><br />

former Soviet Union, or young PhD students.<br />

The forthcoming, jubilee 10 th meeting (www.ig.cas.cz/Castle2006), will be held at Castle <strong>of</strong> Valtice in<br />

<strong>the</strong> Czech Republic, in a centre <strong>of</strong> wine production. We believe that <strong>the</strong> promising trend <strong>of</strong> high ratio<br />

<strong>of</strong> female and young participants will be fur<strong>the</strong>r enhanced.<br />

EC Project „Developing Existing Earthquake Data Infrastructures<br />

Towards a Mediterranean-European Rapid Earthquake Data<br />

Information and Archiving Network“ (MEREDIAN), 2000-2005<br />

The MEREDIAN project aimed at a significant upgrade <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> European seismological data<br />

infrastructure built up by <strong>the</strong> Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology<br />

(ORFEUS) since 1987 and to disseminate techniques and s<strong>of</strong>tware to o<strong>the</strong>r observatories within<br />

Europe and its surroundings. ORFEUS, residing at <strong>the</strong> Royal Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands Meteorological <strong>Institute</strong>,<br />

had <strong>the</strong> central role <strong>of</strong> a coordinator <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> project. The aim <strong>of</strong> MEREDIAN was one homogeneous<br />

European-Mediterranean seismological data infrastructure allowing rapid and free access to<br />

earthquake data and information for basic research and reliable and fast access to earthquake<br />

information for decision-makers and <strong>the</strong> public. The project included a significant investment in coordinating<br />

and providing modern standardised s<strong>of</strong>tware to enable data users to access, view and<br />

perform basic analysis on <strong>the</strong> earthquake data. The original MEREDIAN consortium consisted <strong>of</strong> 10<br />

European countries (France, Germany, Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Spain, Slovenia,<br />

Greece and Italy). Eight newly accepted states to EC (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary,<br />

Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia and Malta) joined <strong>the</strong> project in April 2002.<br />

High-quality broadband data from 5 seismological stations operated by <strong>the</strong> <strong>Geophysical</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />

<strong>ASCR</strong> (GI-<strong>ASCR</strong>) are transferred in real-time to <strong>the</strong> ORFEUS Data Center and included into <strong>the</strong><br />

Virtual Europenan Broadband Seismograph Network. All continuous broadband data since 2000 to<br />

present are available at GI-<strong>ASCR</strong> on request through <strong>the</strong> AutoDRM service by email. The archiving<br />

capacity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> GI-<strong>ASCR</strong> data center increased considerably during <strong>the</strong> Meredian project. GI-<strong>ASCR</strong><br />

organized 3 regional meetings attented by most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> participating countries.<br />

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