Kick-off meeting and other plans

Dear all, time to get active!

1. Kick off meeting for our chapter - pick the date!

The new chapter regulations (found here:https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/chapter-guidelines) say that we have to meet twice per year, and they suggest e.g. March-April and September to do this. This doesn't leave us much time to get ourselves organised for the first meeting.

I would suggest that I will host the first meeting here in Warsaw (I'll organise the seminar room and maybe somebody else can take care of catering) and the next meeting will be planned during the kick-off (and could take place somewhere else). What do you say?

You should have received a link to a google forms questionnaire (https://goo.gl/forms/mcqqxMP5STHAOtto2) which hopefully will let us collect everybody's preferences and organise this. Once we have the date picked, we can advertise and attract other MCAA members that would like to join our chapter. We can reimburse people for travel with a small amount from our budget that we can decide together (how much and how many).

2. Salamanca GA - who is going? I am! If you are going too, maybe we can book something together? Let me know! :)

3. Other events

- I have just met with Izabela Madura, who is coordinating the Poland-wide celebration of Maria Skłodowska-Curie's birthday this year. She is doing this on behalf of PTChem, who run the MSC's muzeum here in Warsaw.

There will be plenty of events that we could help out with, including popularisation of science at festivals in various cities and a big conference "Medicine Science Culture" Nov 6-9th here in Warsaw. As soon as I get the event schedule from her, I'll keep you informed.

- In Katowice there is a conference right now „Ścieżki kariery akademickiej i rozwój młodej kadry naukowej” w ramach Narodowego Kongresu Nauki". I think we have failed to put it on our radar this year, but we could try in the next one.

- there are a number of events related to MSCA that KPK posts on their website. I am not sure if you'd find it interesting if I keep pointing them out to you - you could just subscribe to the KPK newsletter and check out the events in your neighbourhood :) For example, there is a webinar on financial and legal issues in H2020 for people either writing proposals or running projects already.

- KPK just announced that they have prepared a list of MSCA projects in Poland! ( http://www.kpk.gov.pl/?page_id=34659 )

However, they lack personal details - they just have the CORDIS entries really. I will contact the person responsible to make sure we collaborate on whatever they'd like to do with this list. This could be a good starting point for growing our chapter, for starting the buddy program and the proposal-writing-help offer.

- if you have an event coming up, please try to get our chapter involved :)

Best regards,

Maria

I'll repeat the same in the email to make sure I've reached all of you. Please take note that some of your replies never made it to my inbox previously :( It is best to please turn on the "message read confirmation request" when writing to me.