MERID Regional Event and Management Board

Friday 13 May 2016

Venue: Amphitheatre

ESADE Business & Law School

(Avenida Pedralbes 60-62, Barcelona, Spain)

Round table*
9:00 – 9:15

Welcome notes and tour de table

  • Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, president of the Euro-Mediterranean University, MERID Coordinator

  • Angel Saz-Carranza, ESADE Business & Law School, hosting consortium partner

  • Tanya Dimitrova, Project officer, European Commission
9:15 – 9:30

Brief explanation of MERID, objectives, activities and work packages (Dejan Hribar, MERID project manager)
9:30 – 11:00

Moderated Discussion with Middle East researchers and policy makers
11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

Venue: Sala de Juntas

MERID Management Board Session I

Review of progress
11:30 – 11:45 Overview of progress by project coordinator
11:45 – 12:30 Progress review by work package leaders
12:30 – 13:15 Presentation and discussion of roadmap report by George Bonas
13:15 – 13:45 Feedback of Quality Control Board
13:45 – 15:00 Lunch break

MERID Management Board Session II

Future plan
15:00 – 15:30  Overview of future tasks and deliverables
15:30 – 16:00  Planning the schedule of activities and events in 2016
16:00 – 16:30  Financial and administrative issues
16:30 – 16:45  MERID mid-term report
16:45 – 17:00  Wrap up and conclusions

* The roundtable aims to identify and scrutinize the remaining obstacles for cooperation between the European Union and the Middle East research and innovation communities, providing valuable input into the roadmap in progress and the future action plan to be developed by MERID