5th MC meeting and WG II on case study and survey in conjunction with EGPA SG meeting
4 September 2009, Malta 

MC meeting
WG no. and title: WG I Autonomy, Control and Organizational Performance

Location: EGPA Conference Venue – Room Carta I
Time 14.00-19.00 Friday 4 September

• Preliminary list of participants
• Provisional Agenda

Local Organiser

Assist. Prof. dr. Koen Verhoest
Public Management Institute
Parkstraat 45 bus 3609, B-3000 Leuven - Belgium

Preliminary list of participants

COST Members

Invited Experts (please mention also email and country they are coming from )

If you want to participate, please contact prof. dr. Koen Verhoest or Jürgen Spanhove.

Provisional Agenda

WG activities

• feedback from the cost CIPO meeting organised in April (see annex for the report of all activities in the previous budget year) and the evaluation of the previous budget year 
• the inventory of case study material and future steps (book plan on case study research);
• progress reporting of research groups about their mapping efforts or about the COBRA survey (progress, results, problems, best practices);
• discussion on case study protocol for EU agencies developed by COST members under the lead of the BOCCONI team (EU Agencies Case Protocol);
• planning of further meetings and valorisations (cost ISO 601 budget 2009-2010 submission in June 2009; initial budget proposal 2009-2010 june 2009).

MC agenda

• Welcome to participants
• Adoption of agenda

• Minutes of last meeting: April meeting
• Matters arising:
• Report from the COST Office
• Progress report of working groups
• Action planning
• Annual Progress Conference (preparation and/or feedback from DC)
• Action Budget Planning
• Action Planning (including meetings)
• Location and date of next meeting
• STSM status, applications
• Publications, dissemination and outreach activities
• Request for new members
• Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
• Non-COST country participations
• Web news
• AOB
• Closing

MC meeting (chaired by Per Laegreid, Vice-chair) (starting arround 1630 or 1700 o'clock)

Dinner Friday, 4 September 2009 at 20.30.
INTERCONTINENTAL MALTA
St George’s Bay
St Julian’s, STJ 3310
Malta

www.intercontinental.com/icmalta