1. RENAISSANCE : a CONCERTO project financed by the European Commission on the six framework programme RENAISSANCE - LYON - FRANCE 1 WP0.1 (international coordination) - State of progress 7th RENAISSANCE meeting, Lyon, 27th April 2009 Raphaëlle Gauthier Project coordination, Hespul Email : raphaelle.gauthier@hespul.orgraphaelle.gauthier@hespul.org

2. RENAISSANCE : a CONCERTO project financed by the European Commission on the six framework programme RENAISSANCE - LYON - FRANCE 2 WP0.1 : State of progress ( 1/2) (26th/April/2009) Financial Management (Hespul/Grand Lyon): December 08/January 09: Payment by GL of 3rd EC grant (finalisation of Year 2 full payment & 3rd Pre-payment for each partner) Management activities (Hespul): Continuous overall management of the project : With Grand Lyon, local coordinators, partners, DG TREN services updating RENAISSANCE website Preparation/overview of 7th RENAISSANCE session Delivery of the 5 annual reports – Year 3 (Hespul) Overall management & Production of Year 3 Annual Reports (with 3 months late… again  ) Submission to DG TREN the 10 th March 2009 (electronically : 4th/03/09) Management Report financially analysed by DG TREN 26 th March 09- validation on track (corrected version sent electronically by Hespul to Financial service, 15 th April 2009).

3. RENAISSANCE : a CONCERTO project financed by the European Commission on the six framework programme RENAISSANCE - LYON - FRANCE 3 WP0.1 : State of progress ( 2/2) (26th/April/2009) Amendment n°3 of the contract (Annex I) (Hespul) Delivery to DG TREN the 23 rd March 2009 Content (letter from Grand Lyon + Amendment 3 to Annex I) : Usual procedure (Next 18 months report (months 37-54)) Mention of 2 changes of legal names for 2 partners : ex-SMRUZ => Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda ex-SEM lyon confluence => SPLA Lyon Confluence Extra procedure following ECODES withdrawal => UdZ Transfer of ECODES budget (244 538 Euro) to UdZ (Amendment of the full budget) + Review, monitoring of budget changes, exchanges with UdZ & DG TREN services (lasted 6 month !) Extra procedure following Lombardy’s request Modification of its internal allocation, to acknowledge the active involvement of ERSAF under R&D + Training (lasted 6 month !)

4. RENAISSANCE : a CONCERTO project financed by the European Commission on the six framework programme RENAISSANCE - LYON - FRANCE 4 WP0.1 : next 6 months (26th/April/2009) Keeping the whole project on track !! …while : Strengthening the Management activities/ overview/ functioning - in close relation to the 2 local coordinators Launch & negotiations of the future Amendment n°4 following partners’ request to get a prolongation of the contract, due to significant delay in RENAISSANCE implementation Updating and improving the RENAISSANCE Website (www.renaissance-project.eu)www.renaissance-project.eu Preparation of 8th RENAISSANCE meeting (ZAR, Sept./Oct. 2009) Preparation of YEAR 4 Annual Reports - to be finished by early November 2009….for YOU ALL