cc:  simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk, Dominique Raynaud <raynaud@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr>
date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:27:21 +0100
from: Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>
subject: Brussels and Imprint
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi  Keith, Simon and Dominique,
I talked with Brelen today. He is handling the 
paleo-IP in the Commission. They have not yet 
found a replacement, so he continues, which is 
good in this process.
He was very friendly. I had sent him an overviw 
of the partners which he had asked for to avoid 
inviting people as experts reveiwers who are 
involved in the proposal. He complimented our 
ability to attract the bets groups in Europe.
I invited myself to Brussels, and he said they 
were hesitant to do this because they are afraid 
of paying favours to any  special project. He 
said he would check with Troen about this policy, 
and came back and said they would prefer to avoid 
such meetings during   this phase. Thus, we need 
to do remote lobbying. Since you all have good 
contacts, or your institutions have, it would be 
wise to contact Brelen, and more importantly 
Troen or other people in the  Global Change Unit 
to ensure that they a) Realise how the Imprint 
approach is a  major undertaking of the best 
European labs to really make paleoclimate make a 
difference to the predictions and  modelling 
activities. b) Underscore the close connections 
to Ensembles, c) Go through with them how they 
interpret the wording of the call, to make sure 
we have a joint understanding of what it means in 
terms of being relevant for predictions and 
climate dynamics. From the review of the 
competing Millennium proposal it seems that these 
aspects of the call were not considered much.

We need to influence the comission as far as 
possible so that they know what they will miss if 
the project is not funded.

Best regards,
Eystein
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