Agenda

Date: May 30-31, 2011

Location: Leuven, Belgium

Attend: Coordinator, WP Leaders, open to all network

May 30 9:30 to 12:00

Overview of the project: Giovanni
Deliverables: Discussion WP by WP, introduced by a 10 min max overview of the deliverables by the WP
Plans for the conclusions of Soteria: Giovanni and WP Leaders
Preparatory discussion for the SoDA splinter meeting of Tuesday
Interest in new activities.
Legacy of Soteria
Varia
Presentation by Myriam Witvrouw about the final report

May 31, 11:45 - 12:45 (PO Attending)

Overview for the PO of each WP by the WP Leaders, done according to the slide template provided.
Feedback of SOTERIA towards the Program Officer and the referee: discussion for all (see below for a list of items)

Minutes

Review of WP accomplishments given by the WP leaders

Discussion:

Volker suggests that each WP leader sends a description of the preferred formats/ dimensions/ softwares for extraction for the data to be committed into the general SOTERIA repository

Susanne suggets to organize a sub-meeting to collect data and ideas about the models to use for deliverable 4.6 -> the submeeting will take place Wednesday at 11.20

Thierry proposes to put all the links to the developed tools in a bigger frame (e.g. a well known space weather website) for visibility

Giovanni proposes to write a paper for Space Weather Space Climate based on the model validation activities for deliverable 4.6

Discussion about the organization of a Solar Week to raise awareness on space weather related issues. Many suggestions are made:
- a press release in different languages should be relased to the national press of the different countries
- the headlines of the press release should draw attention on big scale issues (e.g. EU involvement, possible catastrophic effects of solar activity) rather than on more technical aspects (e.g. the name of the network,...)
- the choice of the week should be done without conflicting with national activities (e.g. national science weeks) or other awareness raising events.
- Propositions: find some notable anniversary or have the Solar Week concomitantly with the European Space Weather Week. The issue is left open, a first draft for the press release will be written

Review of SODA activity: data from more sources need to be put into the SODA framework, also as a proof of integration efforts inside the consortium. The format and data description should be, as far as possible, integrated