Dear all,

Please fill in the template for the second Progress Report.Deadline for your contribution is 13.12.2013.

Read the instructions carefullyand (cross)check, if all items are mentioned and correct (full dates, dissemination, deliverables, deviations from Annex I, ...).

Don´t hesitate to contact me, if parts are unclear!

Besides this disseminations of the project have to be updated in the Participant Portal. Therefore please include all disseminations made during the whole project time (see point 3 and the list of requested information at the end of the template).

The mentioned Annex I (Description of Work) can be found on the internal page of our website: This site is password protected.

Thanks in advance for your effort and greetings,

Sylvia

MERIT – Second Progress Report (individual project reports)

Covererd period: 01.01.2013 – 31.12.2013

ESR Name

ESR Project title

ESR number

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

ESR Official Start – End of contract

ESR City + country of origin

  1. Project introduction and objectives according to Annex I (0.5 – 1 page)
  2. Short descriptionfor non-experts about the goal and the content of the project
  1. Progress / significant results (max. 5 pages)
  2. Detailed summary about the progress and the results
  3. Highlight clearly significant results
  4. Include reasons for deviations from Annex I (failing to achieve critical objectives, not beeing on schedule) and explain them
  1. Dissemination(fellow AND PI)
  2. Please list ANY dissemination (executed AND planned) related to the project (see attached list of required information) and include a link or a pdf of them.
  3. IF MERIT is not mentioned in the acknowledgements (by name or Grand Agreement number), please indicate this. Officially we can not mention them as “MERIT” disseminations!
  • BE AWARE: the disseminations have to be filled in in the electronical system. Submission is only possible when all requested information are given.
  • A list of planned dissemination activities (publications, conferences, workshops, web, press releases, flyers, etc) in free text format. Where Articles have been published in the popular press, please provide a list as well
  1. Collaborations
  • Which collaborations where started? Which are ongoing? Short description including goals and expected results.
  1. Secondments
  • Which secondments (e.g. lab exchanges) have been planned and organized according to Annex I?
  • Including full date and duration, short description, goals and results. Indicate and explain deviations from Annex I.
  1. Progress towards deliverables and milestones according to Annex I (max. 0.5 page PER deliverable/milestone)
  • Please give a detailed description of each deliverable and each milestone, including progress and also reasons for deviations, critical objectives and corrective measures taken
  • State clearly achieved yes/no and date of achievement according to Annex I
  1. Training activities (fellows)
  • Please include ANY training activities (local and network), including full start-end date, type (e.g. Language course, workshop lab techniques, teaching, lab exchange...) and short description (contribution to the project)
  1. Meetings / conferences (fellow AND PI)
  • Please list anyrelated meetings / conferences including name, type, start-end date, contribution (authors, type and title), which were visited during the project
  • Please list any event (meeting, workshop, summer school, conference session, ...) organized related to the project including type of event, organizer and co-organizers, number of participants, start-end date of event, number of researchers outside the network attending, website of event

Dissemination: Information required from beneficaries

  • any peer reviewed publications, including
  • Full title
  • author and co-authors
  • title of the periodical or the series
  • number, date or frequency
  • date of publication
  • relevant pages
  • open access yes/no
  • any paper in proceedings of a conference / workshop (abstracts about talks AND poster), including
  • Title of proceedings
  • Main author
  • Title
  • Publisher
  • Start date of conference/workshop
  • End date of conference / workshop
  • any articles / sections in an edited book or book series, including
  • Title of book (series)
  • Author and co-authors
  • Title of the book of the series
  • Date of publication
  • Relevant pages
  • any thesis / dissertation, including
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Number, date or frequency
  • Date of publication
  • any university publications / scientific monograms, including
  • Title
  • Author and co-authors
  • Title of the periodical or the series
  • Publisher
  • Date of publication
  • a list of planned dissemination activities (publications, conferences, workshops, web, press releases, flyers, etc) in free text format. Where Articles have been published in the popular press, please provide a list as well
  • With regard to scientific publications published before or after the final report, such details/references and an abstract of the publication must be provided to the Commission at the latest two months following publication. Furthermore, an electronic copy of the published version or the final manuscript accepted for publication shall also be provided to the Commission