Proceedings - C-SRNWP Project

Contacts with the Academia
In his draft Programme Proposal the Programme Manager has raised the issue of the low
degree of collaboration between the SRNWP Programme and the Academia. Quote: "In
Europe, the collaboration of the NMS with Academia should be intensified. This was also the
wish of the NWP Vision Meeting of March 2006 at the ECMWF which has passed a
recommendation in order to develop better working relationship with Academia".
As the idea of common European Conferences on NWP will not be followed, it has been
proposed at the meeting that the contact in NWP between the NMS and the Academia should
be realised through the Working Groups. The WG members will know in their field of
research their colleagues of the Universities. A good starting point for an enhanced
collaboration would be to open the SRNWP Workshops to the relevant specialists working at
Universities.
Preparation of the Programme Proposal and Programme Decision for
the EUMETNET Council
The present phase of the SRNWP Programme ends the 31st of December 2007.
The Programme Proposal and the Programme Decision have to be sent to the EUMETNET
Secretariat the 30th of April 2007 at the latest.
We can presently forget about the Programme Decision which can be considered as a
summary of the Programme Proposal and can be rapidly prepared if the Programme Proposal
treats accurately all the relevant issues.
It has been decided at the meeting to form a "Programme Redaction Committee" for the
preparation of the Programme Proposal. We agreed on 3 persons per Consortium. This would
give of group of 15 persons, 16 with the Programme Manager. This is too large a group. Two
representatives per Consortium would give together 11 persons. This would be more than
enough.
The review of the present report by the Local Organizer of the Zurich Meeting is cordially
acknowledged.
For the report:
Jean Quiby
SRNWP Programme Manager
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