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NADIA 2nd General Assembly Meeting
50 participants representing the 26 European partners of the NADIA Consortium came together in Helsinki to celebrate the second “birthday” of the project, which marked its mid-term status, right at the half way point of its activities.
This time, the meeting has been hosted by the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), located in Espoo, Helsinki, and held at the Dipoli Congress Center.
This annual event traditionally serves as a forum for all partners to share and discuss the project results and future activities.
Furthermore, the General Assembly corresponded with the closure of the annual reporting activity, the preparation of the financial documents and presentations about the work done so far, also in view of the EU reviewer assistance at the meeting.
From all this, it becomes quite clear that the approach to this event involved hard work and great expectations.
The meeting constituted, especially from the coordinator’s and the hosting partner’s point of view, a challenging experience: the organization had to commence about 5 months in advance to fit with the rich calendar of Helsinki events for the central week of June (including also the prestigious Millennium Technology Price). Two new partners (RWTH, INGUS) could join the NADIA Consortium for the first time, after finalizing the long amendment procedures, and a new demon-strator-driven structure was conceived to reorganize the rich contributions of the Project Work Packages.
The central idea of this Assembly was in fact to focus on the core elements of the projects, which are the prototypes (a Crash Resistant Mg HPDC Part, a Cylinder Head, an Engine Block, a Die Cast Al Component for Steering System), and hence to underline the complex correlated activities that characterize this integrated project. The four sessions were chaired by the Demonstrator leaders, respectively FORD, DAIMLER, FIAT and CIE Automotive, which coordinated the contributions of the other partners involved in the different activities concerning the component development. The same model has been applied to each demonstrator, taking into account certain correlated aspects, which are: materials (basic research level), characterization & models (intermediate research level), processes & engineering tools (final research level), pointing out also specific issues and the critical elements for each demonstrator.
This strategy has encouraged partners to make a further effort to integrate, coordinate and present their work clearly, thus attaining the objectives of the scheduled agenda.
The participants, including the EU Officer, appreciated this solution and were positively impressed, not only by the consistency of the performed activities, showing a good level of integration, and the interesting results
obtained, but also by the evident accuracy and effective collaboration the several tasks, difficulties and critical aspects have been dealt with.
The congratulations of the EU reviewer and the satisfaction of a successful meeting are the best rewards and provide the enthusiasm to proceed in the best possible way, and not to let the EU expectations down.
For further information:
www.nadiaproject.org
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