Kick-off Meeting in Leuven, Belgium [KUL]

Catsense Kick-off Meeting was held on March 31th and April 1st, 2014 at the Faculty Club in the restored buildings of the Grand Beguinage of Leuven, Belgium.

Schedule and Participants

Time Description Presenter
Day One
09:00 - 09:30 Arrival of the partners / Informal discussion between the partners already present
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:10 Welcoming address by the Coordinator Peter Lievens
10:10 - 12:50 Presentation of the Partners • Each scientist-in-charge will briefly present their laboratory, research team and describe their role within the Network • 10 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion by each partner All Partners
10:30 - 10:50 KU Leuven (KUL) Peter Lievens
10:50 - 11:10 University of Birmingham (UoB) Richard Palmer
11:10 - 11:30 Denmark Technical University (DTU) Ib Chorkendorff
11:30 - 11:50 University of Milano-Bicocca (UMIB) Gianfranco Pacchioni
11:50 - 12:10 University of Milano (UMIL) Paolo Milani
12:10 - 12:30 Tel Aviv University (TAU) Yosi Shacham
12:30 - 12:50 Teer Coatings Ltd (TCL) Kevin Cooke
13:00 - 14:20 Lunch
14:30 - 14:50 Johnson Matthey (JM) (Peter Ellis)
14:50 - 15:10 Filarete (FIL) Cristina Lenardi
15:10 - 15:30 Cidetec Foundation(CID) (Larraitz Añorga)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Presentation of Catsense (Annex I): Project Goals, Work Packages, Training, etc. Discussion Didier Grandjean
17:00 - 17:30 Presentation of Catsense website Kris Janssens
17:30 - 18:10 Consortium Agreement Contractual Rules and Grant Agreement Finance & Budget Katleen Janssen LRD
18:10 - 19:10 Constituting Meeting of the Supervisory Board Finances, Consortium Agreement, Recruiting, Meetings, Administrative Issues Core Partners
19:10 - 19:10 End of day one
20:30 - 22:30 Dinner
Day Two
09:00 - 10:00 Constituting Meeting of the Supervisory Board Finances, Consortium Agreement, Recruiting, Meetings, Administrative Issues Core Partners
10:00 - 10:30 Joint Constituting Meeting of the Supervisory Board and the Industrial Board All Partners
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Planning for the 1st and 2nd year of the project: Science and Technology All Partners
11:00 - 11:10 Presentation of WP1: Clusters Deposition Richard Palmer
11:10 - 11:20 Presentation of WP2: Characterization of deposited Clusters Peter Lievens
11:20 - 11:30 Presentation of WP3: Theoretical Modeling for Catalyst & Biosensor Design Gianfranco Pacchioni
11:30 - 11:40 Presentation of WP4: Catalytic Testing Ib Chorkendorff
11:40 - 11:50 Presentation of WP5: Biosensors Testing Yosi Shacham
11:50 - 12:00 Presentation of WP6: Prototyping of a tailored Biosensor & Catalyst Paolo Milani
12:00 - 13:00 Bi-/multi-lateral discussions of collaborative research projects All Partners
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 14:40 Presentation of WP7&8: Training and Project Management Peter Lievens
14:40 - 16:00 Planning for the 1st and 2nd year of the project: Training and Management • Recruitment - Fellowships • Secondments • Deliverables and Reporting • Meetings and Industrial advisory Committee involvement, • Events and Dissemination, • Outreach All Partners
19:52 - 19:52 End of SB Meeting 2
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Outlook 3rd and 4th years of the project / Horizon 2020 - new proposal All Partners
17:30 - 17:30 End of Catsense kick-off meeting
Name Affiliation
Didier Grandjean KUL
Kris Janssen KULeuven
Cristina Lenardi Filarete
Yosi Shacham Tel Aviv University
Richard Palmer University of Birmingham
Thomas Picot KU Leuven
Katleen Janssen KU Leuven
Paolo Milani University of Milano
Dr Kevin Cooke Teer Coatings Limited Miba Coating Group
Ib Chorkendorf Technical University of Denmark
Ewald Janssens KU Leuven
Peter Lievens KU Leuven
Gianfranco Pacchioni Università Milano Bicocca