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Kick-off ARENA Project meeting, Istanbul (Turkey), March 2003

A Regional Capacity Building and Networking Programme to Upgrade Monitoring and Forecasting Activity in the Black Sea Basin (ARENA)

Kick-off ARENA Project Meting was held in Istanbul, Turkey, 24-25 March, 2003 with the participation of the Project Coordinator Dr Hristo Slabakov, Executive scientific and administrative secretaries and Work Package leaders. I. Salihoglu acted as the chairman of the meeting. Several issues regarding the implementation ARENA were discussed. The EC after extensive discussions agreed on the following items:

  1. It is understood that there are some gaps of participation of the riparian countries to the Project Task Teams. In order to fill the gaps, each country will provide the missing names to the Project Coordinator through the work package leaders on their earlier convenience.

  2. ARENA Coordinator will work in close collaboration with the regional international organizations, priority will be given to the Black Sea Commission and Black Sea Environmental Programme and the facilities of these organisations will utilized for the implementation of the Project

  3. All Participating Partners will be encouraged for the identification of the End Users of the project and communication with the end users will start as soon as possible.

  4. For the success of ARENA, WP2 and WP3 will work in close collaboration and will harmonize their activities. The same strong links will be established between WP5 and WP6 too.

  5. The Coordinator and WP4 leader will make an extensive plan for the realization of the responsibilities undertaken.

  6. WP2 will provide a detailed plan following the Task Teams meeting. This is an urgent subject and needs immediate action.

  7. In order to secure ARENA implementation, a back-up system have to be established with the collaboration of the Coordinator and the Scientific Executive Secretary.

 

The meeting adjourned after the discussions.

List of participants:

Hristo Slabakov (Bulgaria)
Plamen Dzhadzhev
Kakhaber Bilashvili (Georgia)
Andrey Zatsepin (Russian Federation)
Viorel Malciu (Romania)
Gennady Korotaev (Ukraine)
Temel Oguz (Turkey)
Ilkay Salihošlu (Turkey)
Snejana Moncheva (Bulgaria)
Alexandr Postnov (Russia)
Nikolay Volchev (Bulgaria)
G. Khordzhakia (Georgia)
Semal Acar (Turkey)
O. Tarasova (Russia)
Yuriy Ilyin (Ukraine)