Minutes of the

Local Consortium Meeting

Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, February 4, 2003

Aim:

The meeting is planned in order to acquaint the participants in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with main rules of managing the EU project and prepare the kick-off meeting, which will gather all participants in the project.

Participants:

Partner No.3:    B.Obelić, N.Horvatinčić, I.Krajcar Bronić

Partner No.4:    J.Kapelj, S.Kapelj, D.Singer

Partner No.5:    N.Miošić, H.Hrvatović

Partner No.6:    H.Merdanić

Agenda:

  9:00      General information about the project (B.Obelić, assistant co-ordinator)

  9:30      Discussion about the main tasks to be performed within the project (all participants)

11:00      Organization of kick-off meeting (all participants)

12:00      Determination of the area which will be encompassed in hydrogeological investigations (Participants 4 and 5)

13:00      L u n c h

All participants were informed about the legal and contractual aspects of the Project. Since all participants signed the Contract in December 2002 and it was also signed by the European Commission, the Project commencement date was 1 January 2003. The participants were informed that, according to the message from co-ordinator of the Project (UAB), the money foreseen for advance payment of the Project already reached UAB and will be distributed to all partners within a month. Several financial aspects of the project were discussed too. The participants were informed about the possibility of including young scientists into the project.

The participants agreed that the kick-off meeting of the Project will be held in National Park Plitvice from 14 to 16 April 2003 and will gather representatives of the Project consortium. The first day will be the official meeting, while the next two days will be used for field trips in the area of Plitvice Lakes and Bihać region in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina. B.Obelić will make the provisional agenda for the kick-off meeting by the end of February and send it to all participants

The hydrogeologists agreed that the investigation should encompass total catchment area of all waters that enter the Plitvice Lakes and partly the Una river catchments area. The selected area will cover all Plitvice Lake drainage area and a few springs important for Bihać town water supply. The Croatian and Bosnian hydrologeologists discussed the way of registering of data into the hydrogeological data bank. Especially they pointed out the importance of selection of criteria and uniform standardization. As the example, Croatian hydrogeologists presented the advantages of the Hydrogeologic informatic system prepared for the other purposes at the Institute of Geology – Zagreb.