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CRISIS, CONFLICT AND CRITICAL DIPLOMACY:
EU PERCEPTIONS IN UKRAINE AND ISRAEL/PALESTINE
(C3EU)
9, 2015
C3EU PARTNER MEETING #1
#1 MINUTES
November 8-9, 2015, Brussels, Belgium
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1. C3EU PARTNER MEETING #1
The training will take place in Brussels, Belgium on November 8-9, 2015. Day 1 meeting
will take place in the meeting room at the Sofitel Hotel where the team is staying. Day 2
meeting will take place in Embassy of New Zealand to the EU.
The workshop has several key objectives. Firstly, it aims to introduce the partners
researchers to the study ‘Crisis, conflict and critical diplomacy: EU perceptions in
Ukraine and Israel/Palestine (C3EU)’ by presenting its context, goals, theoretical
frameworks, methods, key tasks, admin matters and the project timeline. This meeting will
alos serve as a teambuilding activity, which will facilitate networking among the members
of the Consortium.
2. C3EU PARTNER MEETING #1
Arrival: Saturday, November 7, 2015
Arrival and accommodation in the Sofitel Hotel
Hotel address:
Place Jourdan 1
1040 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
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Public Transport Options to reach hotel from Airport – please keep all
receipts for Metro/Bus – these will be reimbursed by Rebecca.
6pm: Meeting in the hotel lobby for those researchers who have
arrived
C3EU unofficial dinner for those partners who have arrived
(location: TBC)
Sofitel Hotel, Brussels : http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-5282sofitel-brussels-europe/index.shtml
Session 1
Opening session
9:00-10:15am
Day 1: Sunday, November 8, 2015
LOCATION: Sofitel Hotel
Intro of partners and project. Review of the project architecture and
outputs
Facilitator: Natalia Chaban
10:15-10:30am
Coffee break
Session 2
Outlining contexts
Part 1
10:30-12pm
12-1pm
Session 3
Outlining contexts
Part 2
1pm-6pm
Theoretical Models Leading the Project
Facilitators: Natalia Chaban, Ben O’Loughlin
Lunch: BE Café Marche Jourdan (Sofitel Brussels Europe)
Methods of the project
1:00-2:00 Variables and Constructs
Facilitator: Natalia Chaban, Svetlana Beltyukova, Christine Fox
2:00-3:00 Media Analysis. Update on Research Training #1
Facilitator: Natalia Chaban
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3pm-3:20
Session 4
Outlining contexts
Part 3
3:20-4:40
4:40-4:45
Session 5
Financial and
admin matters
4:45-5:30
7pm
Coffee break
Q-Sort Method and Focus Groups. Elite Interviews.
Facilitators: Natalia Chaban, Sharon Pardo, Ben O’Loughlin
11:30-12:30pm
12:30pm
Final lunch
Participants of the JM conference are relocating to the Jean Monnet
conference venue
Short break
Financial and admin matters
Facilitator: Rebecca Morgan
C3EU OFFICIAL DINNER
(location TBA)
Day 2, Monday, November 9, 2015
LOCATION: New Zealand Embassy and Mission to the European Union
Level 7, 9 - 31 Avenue des Nerviens (Nerviërslaan)
1040 Brussels
BELGIUM
Session 6
RASCH model presentation
Presentation
Facilitators: Svetlana Beltyukova, Christine Fox
9-9:45am
9:45-10:00am
Coffee break
Session 7
Administrative matters
Work plan & Wrap Work plan/outputs and time line.
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Concluding Remarks and Wrap Up
10:00-11:15pm
Facilitators: Natalia Chaban, Martin Holland
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WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Name, position
Project Partners
Fields of expertise
University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Associate Professor Natalia Chaban is a Jean Monnet Chair, Head
Assoc.
Prof. of European and European Union Studies at the University of
Natalia Chaban
Canterbury, and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Research
(C3EU Leader)
on Europe (NCRE) at the same University. Associate Professor
Chaban, a UC Teaching Award recipient (2006), teaches and designs
a variety of under- and post-graduate courses and supervises
MA/PhD students in European and EU Studies. In her national
engagement, Associate Professor Chaban is a member of the
Advisory Board of the NZ EU Centres Network (NZ EUCN)
representing UC since 2005. She contributes to the development of
the national strategy in researching and teaching EU Studies in New
Zealand.
In her international engagement, Associate Professor Chaban is the
President of the Association of Ukrainian Studies of Australia and
New Zealand (since 2013); Adjunct Professor at Research Institute of
Foreign Languages, Cherkasy National University, Ukraine (since
2015); Adjunct Associate Professor, the Centre for Study of European
Politics and Society, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (since 2010);
Associate Fellow, NFG Research Group "Asian Perceptions of the EU",
Free University of Berlin, Germany (since 2013); Member of
International Advisory Board of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies,
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (since 2014) and Member
of the Graduate Faculty, The College of Graduate Studies, University
of Toledo, USA (since 2014)
A leading expert on EU external perceptions in the world, Associate
Professor Chaban focuses her interdisciplinary research on cognitive
and semiotic aspects of political and media discourses, and image,
perceptions and identity studies within the EU and international
relations context. Associate Professor Chaban has significant
experience in analysing EU external perceptions, widely publishing
and advancing methodological training in this regard. Since 2002,
she has led a comparative transnational project on EU external
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perceptions comprising a multicultural team from 27 countries and 8
EU locations.
These have been supported by Jean Monnet
Programme of the EC, EEAS and Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF). She
also leads a research project studying NATO perceptions in Asia
Pacific (supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security
Programme). Her contribution to the field of EU external perceptions
has been recognised by scholars in the field of EU international
identity and public diplomacy, and research design and methods
have been replicated around the world. Associate Professor Chaban
widely publishes on the topic of EU external perceptions (for her full
list
of
publication
please,
see
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/spark/researcher.aspx?researcherid=
87469).
Prof. Martin Holland
Prof. Martin Holland holds New Zealand’s only Jean Monnet Chair
(ad personam) and is a Director of both the National Centre for
Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury and of European
Union Centres Network in New Zealand. He is an active member of a
number of international EU research networks.
Professor Holland has taught at the University of Canterbury since
1984: in 2000 he established the National Centre for Research on
Europe, New Zealand’s only dedicated EU tertiary level centre.
Professor Holland is internationally recognised for his work on EU
Development Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy and
Perceptions of the EU. He heads the multinational “EU External
Perceptions Project” which was recognized by DG Education and
Culture as one of the top 20 “Jean Monnet Success Stories” and has
supervised trans-national projects on perceptions of the EU in Asia,
Africa and the Pacific. He has held a number of notable awards,
including: a Jean Monnet Fellowship, European University Institute,
1987; Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Freiburg, 1992-4;
Rockerfeller Bellagio Fellowship, 2000; Jean Monnet Chair of
European Integration and International Relations, 2002-6; and a Jean
Monnet Chair ad personam since 2008.
He is the author of over one hundred articles as well as twenty-three
books (single-authored, co-authored and edited collections), two
recent titles being “Development Policy of the EU” (with M. Doidge,
Palgrave, 2012) and Communicating Europe in the Times of Crisis:
External Perceptions of the European Union (Ed. with N. Chaban,
Palgrave-McMillan, 2014).
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Team Ukraine
Prof.
Svitlana Prof. Svitlana Zhabotynska obtained her Candidate of
Zhabotynska
Sciences (PhD) degree from Kyiv State Institute for Foreign
languages (1982), and her Doctor of Linguistics (Habilitation)
degree from Moscow State Linguistic University (1993) and
Kyiv National Linguistic University (2000). Since 1990, she has
been doing research in the field of cognitive linguistics that
studies the nature of interaction between language and the
mind. As a Senior Fulbright Scholar, she stayed with the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995), and the
University of California at San Diego (2000-2001) where she
was exposed to the accomplishments of various American
schools of linguistic pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and
neurolinguistics. She is the author of Semantics of Lingual
Networks, a conception that develops methodology for
construal of linguistic and-non-linguistic information. Her 150
scholarly publications in the field of cognitive linguistics and
cognitive science focus on the conceptual foundations of
various linguistic phenomena (part-of-speech systems,
derivational morphology, lexical meaning, lexical fields, syntax,
text and discourse organization), and their application in the
language classroom. Of late, the spheres of her particular
interest have been political linguistics (the use of language as
weapons in the information war), and neurological foundations
of language acquisition and bilingualism. At her home
university, among other classes, she teaches theoretical
linguistics, research methodologies of cognitive linguistics, and
conceptual modeling for language acquisition. She guestlectures a lot at different universities inside and outside
Ukraine.
Prof. Galina Yavorska Prof. Galina Yavorska graduated from the Faculty of Russian
Language and Literature at the Shevchnko State University in
Kyiv in 1975. Since 1976 she was working at the Department of
General Linguistics and Slavic Languages at the Potebnya
Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In
1988 she acquired her PhD degree (Candidate of Sciences) in
General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and in
2000 she acquired the Second PhD (Doctor of sciences) degree
in General Linguistics.
Since 2001 till 2010 she was working at the National Institute
for International Security. Since 2010 she is working as a chief
researcher of Foreign Policy and International Security
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Department at the National Institute for Strategic Studies. She
was appointed a full professor in National Security in 2010. She
has published extensively on various aspects of lexical
sematics, semantically oriented typology, cognitive semantics.
The other important direction in her work focuses on the
interplay of language and society, including sociolinguistic and
political discourse analysis approaches. Galina Yavorska is also
an expert in global and regional security issues, esp. in EU’s
Neighbourhood Policy.Galina Yavorska was involved in crosscultural and cross-linguistics research on lexical typology
(color names, pain metaphors, social terms in Slavic and other
Indo-European languages), she has published works on the
Ukrainian political discourse and the perception of EU/Europe
in Ukrainian texts through the prism of conceptual metaphors.
She was a participant of a whole number of international
research projects promoting the results of her work at various
conferences.
Team
Israel/Palestine
Dr. Sharon Pardo
Dr. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political
and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in
European studies in the Department of Politics and
Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the
Chair of the National Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – the
Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS).
He is the co-editor of Europe and the World book series by
Lexington Books. Pardo is an adjunct fellow at the National
Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), University of
Canterbury, New Zealand, and a member of the Board of the
Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR). His research
interests focus on the legal and political dimensions of
European Union foreign and security policy. Pardo also has
significant interest in the development of the EuroMediterranean region and in Israeli-European Union relations.
He has published widely on these issues and is the author
of Normative Power Europe Meets Israel: Perceptions and
Realities (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), and the coauthor (with Joel Peters) of Israel and the European Union: A
Documentary History (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012)
and Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union (Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2010). Pardo teaches on the European
integration process and public international law.
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Ms. Hila Zahavi
Technische
Universität
Darmstadt
Prof. Michèle Knodt
Ms. Hila Zahavi is a PhD student in the Department of Politics
and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU),
Israel. Her main interest is the European Union, focused on the
European Higher Education Area, Higher Education Policies,
and Normative Power. Her MA research focused on the
relationship between Europe and Israeli human right NGOs.
Her PhD research focuses on the Normative Power theory and
the Othering theory in international relations and its
implementation in the Global Strategy of Bologna
process. From 2010 to 2013 Ms. Zahavi has been functioning as
the Tempus coordinator at BGU, which tried to examine the
possible implementation of elements of the Bologna Process in
Israel. In 2012 she was a founding member of the Bologna
Training Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Today
she is the Director of Academic Development in The Centre for
the Study of European Politics and Society – National Jean
Monnet Centre of Excellence, at Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev.
JM Professor Knodt specialises in European Multi-Level
Governance, European External Energy Governance and
interest intermediation and directs the Jean Monnet Centre of
Excellence “EU in Global Dialogue (CEDI). She coordinates
another project on EU’s democracy promotion in the SouthCaucasus and Central Asia founded by the Volkswagen
Foundation with 8 partners out of the two regions. Financed by
the German Foreign Ministry she just started a project on “Civil
Society of the Eastern Partnership in Dialogue: Mutual
Perceptions of the Eastern Partnership Countries, Russia
and the EU” as a leader with partners out of the 6 Eastern
Partnership countries. As a leader of Energy Centre at TU
Darmstadt, she pioneered a vision of energy as a cross-cutting
issue. She broadens the research perspective by analysing the
norms, discourses and roles/identities that shape the modes of
external energy governance. She is currently coordinating an
international research project on EU External Energy
Governance towards the emerging powers incorporating 11
partners in EU and four ‘emerging powers’. She is a part of a
German Research Foundation Group (DGF) on local knowledge
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formation on climate and energy policy and Co-Coordinator of
an EU Project on ‘Images of the EU as a global energy actor as
seen through the eyes of BRICS’. She has created valuable
contacts with key practitioners in the EU energy area and civil
society.
University of Leuven
Prof.
Keukeleire
Stephan Prof. Stephan Keukeleire is a Jean Monnet Professor in
European Integration and European Foreign Policy at ‘Leuven
International and European Studies’ (LINES) of the KU Leuven
(University of Leuven, Belgium), Director of its “Master of
European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives” and
co-director of its “Master in European Politics and Policies’. He
is also the co-ordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
on ‘The EU, Foreign Policy and Global Governance’ in Leuven
and one of the co-promoters of the Jean Monnet ‘ANTERO’
Network and of the Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Group
on ‘The EU as a Diplomatic Actor’. He is a visiting professor at
the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy
Studies of the College of Europe in Bruges, where he teaches
the course “The EU as a Foreign Policy Actor”. He is the (co)author of many publications on EU foreign policy, including
the widely used textbook “The Foreign Policy of the European
Union” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 2nd ed.), which in 2015 will
also appear in a Chinese translation. He is the coordinator of
the specialized Online Resource Guide “Exploring EU Foreign
Policy” (www.eufp.eu).
Assis.
Prof.
Verpoest
Lien Assis. Prof. Lien Verpoest (Gent, 1977) studied Slavonic &
Eastern European Studies (K.U. Leuven and Saint Petersburg
State University) and International Relations & Conflict
Management (Lund University, Sweden and KU Leuven). She
also obtained an interuniversitary MA in Eastern European
Studies from the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Leuven. As
a research fellow at the Institute for International and
European Policy (K.U. Leuven), she wrote her PhD dissertation
on State Isomorphism in the Slavic Core of the CIS: Geopolitical
Pluralism in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. She currently works
an Assistant Professor in Slavic and East European Studies at
KU Leuven and teaches courses on Russian and Polish Politics
and Society. Her research focuses on the East Slavic region
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(Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) and covers post-Soviet foreign
policy and East-West relations, more in specific the relations
between different regional organisations on the Eurasian
continent (the EU’s Eastern Partnership, the Eurasian
Economic Union, ODKB, etc) .
Irina Petrova
Irina Petrova is a PhD candidate at the Leuven International
and European Studies (LINES) Institute and an academic
assistant at the master programme ‘Master of European
Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives’ at the
University of Leuven. Irina holds master’s degrees in Modern
and Contemporary History from Bryansk State University
(Russia) and Public Policy from Willy Brandt School of Public
Policy, University of Erfurt (Germany). She worked in an NGO
European Movement International, division ‘Foreign affairs,
enlargement and security policy’ and Friedrich Ebert Shifting
project ‘Towards a new order: foreign policy tools of the EU
and how to reshape them’. Irina’s research concentrates on
comparative analysis of the EU and Russia’s foreign policy
strategies in the Eastern Partnership countries
Royal
Holloway,
University of London
Prof. Ben O’Loughlin Dr. Ben O’Loughlin is Professor of International Relations and
Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal
Holloway, University of London. He completed his doctorate at
the University of Oxford in 2005. Ben is an expert in
international political communication. He has completed a
number of projects explaining how power and influence
operate in relations between media, policymakers and publics.
In recent years he has built up the theory strategic narratives
in the book Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the
New World Order (New York: Routledge, 2013) and in a volume
of case studies entitled Forging the World: Strategic Narratives
and International Relations (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2016).
Ben is co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War & Conflict. He
has published research in leading journals including Journal of
Communication, Journalism, International Affairs, and Review of
International Studies. In 2013-14 he was Specialist Advisor to
the House of Lords Committee on Soft Power and UK Influence
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and published the report Power and Persuasion in the Modern
World. His research on media and conflict has been supported
by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, UK
Technology Strategy Board, the Centre for the Protection of
National Infrastructure, the European Commission and the
British Council.
Prof. Sarunas Liekis
Prof. Liekis is specializing is Middle East and East Central
European Affairs. The researcher is capable of conducting
research and participating in the projects also to conduct
applied research – providing results for academia,
governmental institutions and NGO's.
Research Consultants
Assoc. Prof. Svetlana Assoc Prof. Svetlana Beltyukova holds a PhD in Research,
Beltyukova
Evaluation, Statistics and Measurement and an additional PhD
in Linguistics. She is a tenured associate professor at the
University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, where she has taught doctoral
courses in quantitative and mixed-method research design,
multivariate statistics, and nonparametric statistics for almost
15 years. She has published in top tier journals (e.g., JAMA,
JSLHR, JPAE), advocating for increasing the rigor of research
with psychometric evidence from the use of the Rasch
measurement model. She has been a passionate collaborator
across a wide range of disciplines and organizational settings,
specializing in comprehensive research and survey design and
data analytical support.
Prof. Christine Fox
Dr. Christine Fox is a full professor at The University of
Toledo, where she has taught doctoral courses in survey
design, measurement, and statistics for more than 20 years.
Her expertise is in designing and analyzing measures for use in
high-stakes decision making. She is best known for her coauthored book, “Applying the Rasch Model: Fundamental
Measurement in the Human Sciences” that has been cited in
scholarly articles over 3,000 times since its first edition in
2001.
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Support Staff
Rebecca Morgan
Ms. Rebecca Morgan is the European Union Centres Network
and Jean Monnet Project Coordinator at the National Centre for
Research on Europe. Based at the University of Canterbury,
Rebecca leads a project team who are experienced in managing
large research projects from a variety of externally funded
sources.
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5.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The project “Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine (C3EU)” focused on EU images in key issue areas of economy, politics,
foreign policy, energy, climate change, RS&I, civil society and culture/education.
The European Commission and the EEAS aim to more effectively engage with 3rd country
publics and stakeholders. Ukraine and Israel/Palestine are currently embroiled in conflicts
set in differing contexts which threaten the EU’s eastern and southern edges. It is critical
that Europe diagnoses and understands EU perceptions in these volatile strategic
neighbours and tracks expectations. C3EU traces perceptions towards the EU as well as
broader visions of Europe as producers of diplomatic outcomes in conflicted societies.
Under new leadership, the EEAS has prioritized public diplomacy as a foreign policy
instrument. In a multipolar world where public diplomacy is actively used by established
and emerging powers, coherent EU action is needed. The intensity of the two conflicts
makes EU public diplomacy much more critical than in non-conflict situations. C3EU
provides empirical information to revise public diplomacy based on an assessment of EU
perceptions. C3EU allows for the EU to reconceptualise policy towards Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine and re-launch its image.
C3EU involves experts from leading EU perceptions studies and employs an internationally
tested methodology to assess which EU messages resonate within divided societies and
which target audiences are the most influenced by the EU. Framed by Strategic Narrative
Theory, C3EU studies formation, projection and reception of EU narratives in Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine.
Policy- and solution-oriented, C3EU longitudinal perceptions analysis covers the period
from Euromaidan and ATO (Ukraine) and Operation Protective Edge (Israel) (2013-16)
and informs about internal and external EU narratives disseminated in Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine – for which audiences and with what reception. C3EU will trace external
views on the EU’s: exit from its crisis; new leadership; response to the Ukrainian and
Israeli/Palestine conflicts; attraction as a destination for migration, investment, business
and education; appeal as an effective Normative Power; structural support and civil
society outreach; current and future critical diplomacy when dealing with Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine; and role as a legitimate and credible partner.
C3EU combines leading scholars with early-career researchers and draws on
multidisciplinary expertise in EU external perceptions, CFSP, ENP, governance, IR, media,
communication, cognitive and linguistic studies. The research strategy examines:
i)
official policy discourse towards the EU;
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ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
EU media framing;
EU perceptions among policy-makers;
youth; and
makes policy recommendations.
A systematic account of EU perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine will equip Europe
with operational and programming level tools. C3EU will focus on:
1) the perceived strengths of the EU and the range of EU messages to build on these
perceptions;
2) key target local audiences which are the most receptive to EU messages, presently
and in the future;
3) protocols of assessing EU critical diplomacy effectiveness towards Ukraine and
Israel/Palestine; and
4) initiatives to improve EU perceptions in conflict situations.
C3EU employs an innovative comprehensive approach using tested qualitative and
quantitative methods to generate an accurate assessment of EU diplomatic engagement
with Ukraine and Israel/Palestine under crises and provides a comprehensive avenue to
improve EU perceptions. Ultimately, C3EU will provide EU stakeholders with unique
information to elaborate relevant policies and devise outreach initiatives to influence
target audiences in the most effective and cost-efficient manner.
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6.
WORKSHOP LOGISTICS
Please, keep all tickets for reimbursement.
6.1. Arrival
Public Transport Options to reach hotel from Airport.
6.2. Accommodation
Sofitel Hotel http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-5282-sofitel-brusselseurope/index.shtml
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Hotel address:
Place Jourdan 1
1040 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
6.3. Organisational aspects of the project
1. As Natalia informed you, the C3EU Launch Meeting will take place in Brussels, on
November 8-9. On Sunday, November 8, our meeting will be a full day,
commencing at 9am, while on Monday we will finish at lunchtime. Consequently
we would ask people to arrive on Saturday, November 6, in time for a project
dinner that evening at 6pm: the project will cover travel to Brussels where needed,
TWO nights’ accommodation and all local meals costs. The meeting programme will
be sent separately (Natalia has sent the preliminary programme already).
2. The C3EU management preference (based on our experience of other transnational projects) is that we will pre-pay all costs and not involve reimbursements.
This will help us manage the costs more efficiently as well as avoid the seemingly
inevitable delays associated with reimbursements. Incidental costs (e.g. bus
from/to the airport) may be able to be reimbursed – but only if you provide
Rebecca original receipts. As always, we ask you to be as economical as possible.
3. Please be aware that the NCRE at Canterbury is the financial partner for this JM
grant and all monies paid to us are in Euro and then converted into NZ$ (hence our
preference to avoid reimbursements as exchange rate fluctuations can be quite
significant).
4. In order to pre-pay for travel, we will work though our NZ-based University travel
agent (Orbit) who will book your all air/train tickets. In this light, if you have not
done so already, please send to Natalia and Martin (and copied to Rebecca) the
following:
a) A completed Orbit Travel Profile by September 1st. This is a mandatory
requirement imposed by our University and no travel arrangements can be
booked without this documentation. Natalia has already sent this to you.
b) Your travel preferences for the November Launch Meeting in Brussels - if you
haven’t yet communicated them following Natalia’s email. Please, be as specific
as you want – dates, airline choice, etc. Our UC travel agent is usually able to
accommodate such requests.
Travel booked this way also comes with insurance as well as 24/7 freephone back-up.
5. For those who may require visas to travel to Brussels, please contact Rebecca who
can organise any necessary letters of invitation.
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6. We will also need confirmation from your employer of the number of work days
allocated to the project as well as a simple record of this for reporting purposes.
The timesheets (based on other existing EU grants) will be presented and explained
by Rebecca during our November meeting. This is to match the grant “in-kind”
commitments (and does not involve any “real” money). There is no urgency for this.
7. In terms of contracts, we do not intend to add to our administrative burden and will
not require any except for:
a) those of you employing early-career researchers who will need to organise
their contracts in line with your normal university practice; and
b) any sub-contracts.
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