1. French "Ministère des Affaires Etrangères" support (MAE)
Money for 1999 support is now available and most of the stays could begin ... at the beginning of 2000 !...Most of them are already planned.
The requests for 2000 support have been sent to the Ministery.
More details can be asked to Arlette Rigaud (Météo-France/DGS/IE, arlette.rigaud++at++meteo.fr ).
2. Bilateral supporting grants
Balaton, Barrande, Proteus, Portugal are bilateral programs who can support short visits in both sides. The countries involved in these programs can easily be guessed considering the programs names. The French fundings are used to pay the per-diem (in France) of the visitors and to pay the travel of French people to your NMS, and vice-versa.
For 1999, most of the exchanges have been completed or will be completed in the next weeks (for example, work on diagpack was fostered in Budapest thanks to such grants, see article in this Newsletter).
The reports of 1999 actions and the 2000 renewal demands have already been sent for some programmes (depending of the deadline for each of them). The request for new demands should usually be prepared in spring.
3. Météo-France support for maintenance
The amount of Météo-France support for 2000 will be similar to the 1999 one. It will be dedicated to phasing and cleaning (one phasing in March for OBD, another in automn after EWGLAM meeting), installation of ODB, start of objective verification work, ...
4. ALATNET funding ?
See "Main events".
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