Next: Practical project coordination Up:
Raising management issues
Concerning fundings, Jean-François Geleyn reported that the ALADIN community will have to face a decrease of centralization-like fundings : MAE (French Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres : Morocco and Tunisia are not concerned), LACE. Météo-France will continue financing all tasks related to maintenance (Toulouse part), ALATNET will also continue but laboriously with regular justification work to European Union. As an example for reducing some useless charges, Jean-François Geleyn suggested to partners to buy at home the travel tickets for their experts when travelling to Toulouse. They will be reimbursed and are likely to be less expensive than when bought in Toulouse. This would allow for more stays. All the partners were aware that money must be spent in a way to get interest from it. Nowadays, more and more deported work is needed, but at the same time, heavy supervising work (PHD, training, ...etc) is also needed. 3D-Var coordination by Claude Fischer, is a good example.