TOULOUSE meeting (Management committee and working group meetings)
10 September 2010, Toulouse

MC meeting
Adjacent to the EGPA meeting

Location: EGPA Conference Venue – Room IEP, Salle du Conseil
Time 14.00-19.00 Friday 10 September 2010

• Preliminary list of participants
• Agenda
• Scientific report Toulouse meeting (-pdf)

Local Organiser

Assoc. 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 )

Final Agenda

WG activities

• Decisions on publications:
• special issue and book project  and papers to be included in these publications 
• final report and country reports: format and content + deadline for submission (end December)
• Joint research projects 
• discussion on proposals for ECRP proposal and other strategies for future funding 
• Discussion on future meeting 
• agenda and objectives November meeting
• place and date of meeting January 2011 
• date, objectives and program of the final conference (Brussels May 2011)
• follow-up on data gathering through surveys, mapping and case studies 
• follow-up on website, publications on website….
• Separate discussion on EU-agency book project for the researchers involved in this project  – detailed information will be provided by Dario Barbieri and Eduardo Ongaro to the involved researchers

MC agenda (chaired by Per Laegreid, Vice-chair)

1. Welcome to participants
2. Adoption of agenda
3. Minutes of last meeting: April meeting
4. Matters arising:
5. Report from the COST Office
6. Progress report of working groups
7. Action planning
   1. Annual Progress Conference (preparation and/or feedback from DC)
   2. Action Budget Planning
   3. Action Planning (including meetings)
      1. Location and date of next meeting
8. STSM status, applications
9. Publications, dissemination and outreach activities
10. Request for new members (denmark, Croatia, Korea)
11. Promotion of gender balance and of Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
12. Non-COST country participations
13. Web news
14. AOB
15. Closing

COST dinner at 20.00

Scientific report Toulouse meeting (-pdf)