{"id":916,"date":"2014-07-15T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/?page_id=916"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:11:20","slug":"december-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/about-medow\/management-work-package-updates\/december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #557896\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #557896\">Work Package 5: Network training events<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8 of the ESRs attended the Winter 2013 network meeting in Cardiff.\u00a0 For details of their training, see the event webpage.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Training Steering Committee took place.\u00a0 Cardiff University is going to draft a Network Training Programme in Spring 2014.\u00a0 The programme will outline plans for network-wide training events for the MEDOW fellows.\u00a0 Researchers from outside the network will also be invited, when appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #557896\">Work Package 6: Training of individual ESR\/ER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Training Steering Committee took place.\u00a0 ESRs&#8217; draft PCDPs (which have already been peer reviewed by a member of the network) were reviewed and approved using the MEDOW PCDP Approval Process.<\/p>\n<p>A process for monitoring and updating PCDPs has been drawn up.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #557896\">Work Package 7: Dissemination and outreach activities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this early stage of the project, we do not yet have any results to disseminate.<\/p>\n<p>MEDOW has attended several wind power and HVDC events.\u00a0 In addition, we held an outreach event for A-level students in Cardiff where the ESRs gave presentations on renewable energy, offshore wind and engineering opportunities. See our dissemination webpages.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #557896\"><strong>Work Package 8: Network management<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MEDOW website has been launched and is updated regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Two network-wide meetings have been organised in Cardiff (May and December 2013) (T8.2 and D8.2).\u00a0 The planned schedule for future network meetings was discussed and agreed at the December meeting.\u00a0 May&#8217;s meeting was a Kick-Off meeting.\u00a0 The December meeting involved meetings of all committees, researcher training events and public outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Recruitment of ESRs took place in summer 2013.\u00a0 To date, 11 of 12 ESRs have been appointed.\u00a0\u00a0 Recruitment of ERs will take place at various stages in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Membership of Supervisory Board, Training Steering Committee, Dissemination &amp; IP Committee and Financial Management Committee has been confirmed and communicated to all partners.<\/p>\n<p>A project handbook for fellows has been sent to all ESRs appointed so far along with the Grant Agreement and annexes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Work Package 5: Network training events 8 of the ESRs attended the Winter 2013 network meeting in Cardiff.\u00a0 For details of their training, see the event webpage. A meeting of the Training Steering Committee took place.\u00a0 Cardiff University is going to draft a Network Training Programme in Spring 2014.\u00a0 The programme will outline plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"parent":630,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-916","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P41kOo-eM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916\/revisions\/921"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/medow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}