Transcript Elettra I3 IA-SFS Managing team Role of scientific background

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Annual reports
Final report
Dr. Cecilia Blasetti
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
Reports
Preparing reports
 Read guidelines
 Prepare instructions
 Fix deadlines to collect material
 Continuous contact with partners
pressing
guiding
 Inserting & summarizing
 Financial documentation: check & archive
 Feedback from/to the EC
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Reports
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Timescale
DoW = Description of Work = Annex I of the contract
 detailed description of the project
 prepared by the Consortium
 modified before Contract is signed in accordance with EC
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Annual reports
 scientific achievements
 financial reports
 subsequent year’s implementation plan
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Final report
 overall summary of the project
 broadly comprehensive
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AR
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Annual Report-1
Activity report
 Progress report
 List of deliverables
 Use and dissemination of knowledge
 Annexes
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Management report (financial information)
 Appendix 1-Justification of the resources deployed
 Appendix 2-Forms C-Financial statements
 Appendix 3-Summary financial report
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Report on the distribution of the community financial contribution
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Detailed implementation plan for the next 12 months
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AR
Annual Report-2
ARs are complex and annexes-rich documents: WEBSITE !
http://www.elettra.trieste.it/I3 to archive & monitor
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Draft versions of the reports
EC guidelines + instruction
templates
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Deliverables
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Appendixes
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Missing items lists
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Annual Report-3
For YOUR facility:
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Activity report
 Progress report
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Summary of the activities and major achievements
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Networking activities: workshops, conferences, schools
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Transnational access activity
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 select publications highlights
 extract reports
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Joint research activities
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Use & Dissemination of knowledge
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Annual Report-4
for the other partners…
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Remind deadlines
Explain guidelines/instructions, provide templates
Check consistency between the D.I.P. and the research
progress
Check financial documents-suggest adjustments
Stick to the EC comments on previous reports
Collect all information/documentation
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Annual Report-5
Appendix
1-Justification
of costs
Management
report (financial
information):
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Details
by activity
Work together
with accountants
Person-months
Mind
EC corrections on previous year’s documents
Total costs
Appendix 2-Form C
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Summary of the costs
Requested EC contribution
Auditing
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Final
1.
Final Report-1
Activity report
 Project objectives - contractors
 Access activities - Users projects
 Joint research activities
 Networking activities
 Dissemination and Use
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Final Management report (financial information)
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Final report on the distribution of the community
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Questionnaires
“The report must be clear, concise, meaningful and comprehensive. It
cumulates and summarizes the project activities and results over the full
duration. It is of suitable quality to enable direct publication by the
Commission. While not excluding technical language, it should be broadly
dr. general
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comprehensible to an interested
reader.”
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Final
Final Report-2
What YOU can do the best:
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Activity report
Access activities - Users projects
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Choose valuable research highlights
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CREATE template + instructions:
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Read guidelines
Look @ other final reports
Read > papers/abstract on topic
Extract the wonder of an experiment even from
a boring paper
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Read & discuss comments/corrections on
partner’s highlights
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Hints for creating the highlight:
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Not excluding technical language BUT
Clear-concise-broadly comprehensible
Always explain ACRONYMS!
Use abstracts & introductory sections
FIGURE: choose 1 OR sketch ex-novo !
Project
Summary of the project
Images
2 lines
Max 20 lines
(100 words)
Choose or
draw + caption
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Create a good TEMPLATE
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Final
Template – from PhD thesis
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Final
Examples - 1
Project
Summary of the Project
Researchers from Universitat Polit
c nic a
de Catalunya and co - workers have been
investigating the technology
behind
materials used centuries ago. Using
fluorescence EXAFS (Extended X-rays.
Absorption Fine Structure) they found the
Infrared and X-ray probes el ucidate the packing density of com plex nanostructured
basis of techniquesused in ancient works particles to be the origin of a metallic lustre
of art.
found on 9th century Islamic pottery. In
another study, a comparison of FT IR
(Fouri erT ransform Infrared Spectroscopy)
spectra from reference materials with
those for sam ples taken from Gothic
paintings (incl uding some by Martorell,
Huguet and Dalm au) suggested the origin
of bi nding media, resins, and drying oils
used with copper-based green pigm ents.
Besi des extendingour appreciation of the
artisansÕ work, such discoveries will lead
to improved methodsof conservation.
Images
Figure 1: Detai l from the altarpiece,Mare
de Du dels Consellers by Llu’s Dalm au
(M useu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya,
Barcel ona).
Final
Examples - 2
Project
Glycogen phosphorylase inhi bit ors as
potential antidia betic drugs.
Summary of the Project
Allosteric inhibitors are effector molecul es
that bind to an enzym e at a site other than
the active site and decrease its ac tivity.
The development of specific inhi bit ors has
been the focus of much effort to find more
effective compounds to treat type-2
diabetes
by
regulating
glycogen
metabolism. A group from the Institute of
Organic & PharmaceuticalChemistry at the
National Hellenic Research Foundation has
com pleted protein crystallography at
cryogeni c temperature s on c om plexes of
candidate effector m olecules bound to
glycogen
phosphorylase
and
phosphorylase kinase. T he high resol ution
data obtained is aiding structure-based
design of ne w analogues with enhanced
affinity for the enzym es.
Images
a)
b)
Figure 1: Schematic representation of
allosteric inhi hibi tion of substrate binding.
a) inhi bit or and substrate in the vicinity of
the enzym e
b) inhi bit or bindsand alters the active site
so preventing substrate binding
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Thank you for you attention !
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