FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 2012

The ExpeER first annual meeting was held from 21th to 24th February 2012 and kindly hosted by UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. 73 participants attended the event which includes parallel workshops for each WorkPackage, interactive sessions, plenary session and a visit to the experimental station Bad Lauchstädt. As one participant pointed out, this meeting is more fruitful than a traditionally structured meeting. There were a lot of interactive discussion among different WP participants and site managers. We need to keep this dynamic within the ExpeER community and turn the ideas from the meeting into concrete actions.

KICK-OFF MEETING 2011

The kick-off meeting of the ExpeER project was held in Fontainebleau (France) from 8 to 10 February together with the ExpeER executive committee meeting on 7 February. The meeting was organized by INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) and INRA Transfert. Around 60 participants attended the meeting.
The aim of the meeting was to launch officially the ExpeER project, to make sure all participants have a common understanding of the project and their roles and to discuss the first step of the project.

The Executive Committee meeting was held on Monday afternoon on 7 February, with the participation of all Executive Committee members or their representatives, to review the presentations of each WP for the General Assembly and to make key decisions.
The conference of the General Assembly began on Tuesday morning 8 February with the presentation of the ExpeER project by the ExpeER project coordinator, Abad CHABBI (INRA), and the vice-coordinator, Stefan KLOTZ (UFZ), followed by the invited speeches given by Hervé PERO, head of unit for Research Infrastructures within the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission, Sylvain LAMARE, vice-scientific director of the Institut Ecologie & Environnement (CNRS) and Laurent LAPCHIN, deputy scientific director for the Environment, INRA. A panel discussion was organized to clarify understanding of the project. In the afternoon, presentations of the detailed information for each WorkPackage(WP) were given by the WP leaders.
On 9 February parallel workshop sessions for each WP, except for WP5 and WP11, were organized and facilitated by each WP leader. Their objectives were to present to the WP participants the content and the tasks of each WP, discuss their implementation and make an action plan.
Another meeting of the General Assembly was held on the last day to summarize the major decisions made for each WP in the workshop sessions and to present the action plans. It was followed by a presentation about the ANAEE Preparatory Phase given by Emmanuelle KLEIN (INRA). The ExpeER kick-off meeting ended with a closing speech by the project coordinator.

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