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PARSEME Kick-off meeting
2013/03/08
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Minutes edited by Yannick Permentier

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To remember from Ralph's presentation:
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 + COST is a inter-governmental agency (funded by the ESF)

 + COST should not be mentioned as a sponsor (no financial support prior to an event)

 + strict constraints on reimbursement of travel expenses (e.g. if the plane arrives/leaves not close to a meeting, a proof that it remains the cheapest way to travel is expected)

 + Interest for non-COST countries to collaborate: Short Term Scientific Missions can provide financial support for them (while they are not eligible for reimbursement when attending meetings/conference, cf reciprocal benefits)

 + Financial support for ESR does not concern master students

 + geographical balance when reimbursing WG paricipants

 + Support for local organization of events is possible but subject to constraints (to be validated by MC)


Minutes of Agata's presentation:
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*Presentation of the PARSEME Action (see slides)*
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The quorum is fulfilled: 16 out of 20 Action parties (countries) are represented at the meeting (2/3 is required).

Outline: 
  + Grant Holder (tasks, candidate: IPIPAN -- i.e. Adam's Institution -- represented by Adam, Pr Jacek Koronacki, Boguslaw Martyniak)
  + Financial Rapporteurs (Shuly + Mike)
  + Objectives (cf MoU: General aim, details wrt multi-lingualism, cross-frameworks approaches, efficiency)
  + Key Problem: MWEs (different levels involved, under-represented, not sufficiently understood, hard to handle)
  + Consortium (size, geographical origin of members, fields involved, frameworks involved, approaches involved namely data-driven vs knowledge-based ones)
  + Languages involved (23 + dialects)
  + Working Groups (internal organization)
  + Challenges for each WG
  + Bodies and Roles: MC members, Steering Committee made of Chair, Vice-Chair, WG leaders, ESR representative, STSM coordinator and Dissemination coordinator.  

    WG Leaders: 
      WG1: Manfred Sailer, 
      WG2: Yannick Parmentier, 
      WG3: Michael Rosner, 
      WG4: Victoria Rosén

    NB: **Acting Working Group leaders voted today, to be confirmed during the 1st meeting of each WG**,

    ESR representative:
      Pavel Stranak (subst. Veronika Vincze) 

    NB: **ESR representative could be renewned every year (substitute taking over, and so on)**
 
    STSM coordinator:
      Cvetana Krstev
 
    Dissemination coordinator:
      Miriam Butt
 
    The 7 persons above have been elected unanimously by a vote.

  + 1st year objectives
  + 1st year output
  + 1st year budget
  
  NB: **The Action starts after the parties have signed the MoU (probably: mid-june)**

  + Next meeting: mid-september in Warsaw (16/17)

Next steps:
   * express preferences for WG, 
   * set up mailing lists, 
   * send calls for STSM proposals
   * invite researchers from non-COST countries
   * define the WG organisation
   * strenghten the links with the MWE-workshop community

   (make sure the current non-COST participants want to keep this status vs invited researcher)