May 8th: Workshop
In the frame of the 3rd MC and WG meeting, a Workshop was be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 8th. The title of the workshop is "Chemical weather information services for quality of life", and it includes, apart from the ES0602 action participants, invited experts in the field. For details concerning the workshop programme and organizational details, see the agenda.
May 9th : MC and WG meetings
The 3rd meeting will be organised in Thessaloniki, Greece, 8-9 May 2008, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUTh.
Transportation
In order to see how to get there by public transport, please use this link. In addition, a map of the campus is available here (look for the Mechanical Engineering department), as well as a map with the hotels and the meeting place.Hotels
It is recommended that you stay in a hotel within the city. A list of suggested hotels follows. Please make you own bookings.
- Hotel ABC
- Hotel Zaliki
- Via Google Maps, hotels in Thessaloniki
Weather
Weather forecasts for Thessaloniki are available via forecast.uoa.gr, www.meteo.gr, and www.weatherunderground.com.
Meeting Schedule, May 9th : MC and WG meetings
Morning session: 09:00 – 13:30
- Welcome to participants
- Adoption of agenda
- Minutes of last meeting
- Report from the Scientific Officer
- News from the COST Office
- Status of Action
- Number of Signatories
- Budget Status, budget allocation process
- Year Budget status and planning
- STSM status, applications
- Publications, annual report
- Evaluations
- Request for new members
- Non-COST participations
- Updates of Co-ordinates MC / WGs etc
- Web news
- Progress report of working groups
- Set up of working groups programme and membership progress
- Long-term planning
- Time and place of next meeting
- AOB
Lunch: 13:30-14:30
Afternoon session: 14:30-17:30. Sequential WG meetings
Presentations by Invited Experts
| The US EPA’s AIRNow System | Phil Dickerson, US EPA |
| Delivering preventative health information to vulnerable people in Sussex (UK) | Nigel Jenkins, Sussex Air Quality Partnership |
| The Cyprus AQ Information Portal | Savvas Kleanthus, Air Quality Section, Department of Labour Inspection, Cyprus |
| Patient and patient organisation criteria for well working electronic information dissemination solutions | Geir Endregard, Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association |
| AIRTHESS: The Thessaloniki system | Dr. Kostas Nikolaou, Organization for the Master Plan and Environmental Protection of Thessaloniki |
| Near-real time Air Quality Data (Ozone web and future actions) | Jaume Targa, EEA – ETC/ACC |