1. Great thanks to Marcello Donatelli for organizing the meeting in ISCI-CRA

2. Meeting Cocktail Thanks to Andrea Carril and Micaela Pantano!

3. CLARIS NCT1 Summary of CLARIS 1 st year activities Jean-Philippe Boulanger (CNRS) and Carlos Ereño (UBA) k CLARIS Consortium k CLARIS Budget k Web site k Newsletter k Dissemination activities k Satisfaction survey (Carlos Ereño) k Meeting agenda

4. CLARIS Consortium k Due to administrative reasons, University of Sao Paulo has been retrieved from the CLARIS project k A new version of the consortium agreement without USP has been sent to the partners k A new Description of Work (DoW) is now available on the CLARIS web site k Two institutes have asked to integrate the CLARIS project: k INTA ( Instituto Nacional de Tecnicas Agropecuarias, Argentina )-WP4.1-Unanimous agreement k FUNCEME ( Fundaçao Cearense de Meteorlogia e Recursos hidricos, Brazil )-WP4.2, WP3.2-Vote postponed to Saturday morning during the Consortium meeting

5. CLARIS Budget k EC funds sent to CNRS received at CNRS in December k CNRS transferred funds in March k Level of expenses at June, 30th = less than 50% k Financial reports must be sent to CNRS by 11 th of July k Both the late transfer of funds and the organization of the meeting in July (2 nd year) explain the low rate of use of funds (50%), it is asked to the EC not to reduce the 2 nd year CLARIS budget. Such a reduction would compromise the ability of the project partners to catch up with CLARIS initial calendar. k Georgios Amanatidis suggested that when we reach the 70% level, we inform the EC in order to initiate the the transfer of 2 nd funding. Such a level may be reached in late July (after the present meeting).

6. CLARIS Web Site Paula Richter k A new version of the CLARIS web site has been designed by Paula Richter and is now located at:http://www.claris-eu.org

7. CLARIS Newsletter k Second issue printed for the meeting k Electronic versions in PDF format on the CLARIS web site

8. CLARIS Dissemination activities k Presentation of CLARIS by Rafael Terra on Climate change simulations of the South American Monsoon System at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Panel (VPM8), at Mexico City, MX, 7-9 March 2005 k Presentation of CLARIS by Carlos Ereño on CLARIS overview at the 12th meeting of the IAI (Inter- American Institute for Global Change Research) Conference of the Parties (CoP), at Montreal, Canada, May 5/6, 2005. k Presentation of CLARIS and the pilote project « Climate and Dengue » by Nicolas Degallier at the EC Workshop on « Climate Change and Health Impacts » organized at Bruxelles on June, 13 th, 2005.

9. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey Objective: To evaluate the project management, dynamics and support to participants To get the thought of the partners to improve different aspects of CLARIS

10. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey Items included in the survey Managing Organization of meetings Web site Newsletter Data Server Communications Work Packages Answers received Europe: 3 South America:8 Total11

11. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 1. Managing

12. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 2. Organization of meetings

13. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 3. Web site

14. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 4. Newsletter

15. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 5. Data server

16. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 6. Communications

17. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey 7. Work Packages

18. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey Comments Web site I have not visited the web site Newsletter No Neswletter has been published yet I think that the newsletter may be a little bit too long and too "technical" to really increase CLARIS visibility. It is too soon to really assess if it could be useful for my own activities in the project, however, it might not be the prior objective of the newsletter Data server I did not have to use it yet DODS is useful to my activities. I am working with IOCC data

19. CLARIS Satisfaction Survey Conclusions Only eleven partners replied to the survey. GREAT THANKS! Useful comments to take some actions: –Newsletter –Inter-WP meetings in Bologna Copies of the results of the survey are available for all participants.

20. Meeting Agenda