OPTICON Partners Meeting 6, Paris September 23+24, 2002

 The next OPTICON partner's meeting will involve a major discussion of
 the role of OPTICON in the EU Framework 6 funding programme,

 This provides a timely opportunity to review activity and progress to
 date, and agree our future activities and priorities.


             Draft Agenda

 1 Adoption of the Agenda

 2 Welcome and introduction to:

 2.1  Belgian National Participation (Jean-Piere Swings)
 2.2  Rat Deutscher Sternwarten (Rolf-Jurgen Dettmar)
 2.3  Greek National Representative (John Seiradakis)

 3 Minutes of Meeting 5

 4   Matters Arising and actions
 4.1 Next Meeting: Tenerife, Canary Islands: date TBC

 5 OPTICON Activities Overview (Chairman)
  -- Annual Report to EC
  -- Mid Term FP5 review
  -- EU Brochure
  -- Round table meeting with RadioNET
  -- Presentations on OPTICON

 6 Common Infrastructures WG Status (Chairman)
   -- EURO-3D
   -- ASTROWISE

 7 Elite Fellowship Study: Status and Progress report (Benvenuti)

 8 Key Technologies WG (Rebolo)

 9 Interoperability WG Activity (Genova)

 10 Virtual Observatory Status report (Quinn/Benvenuti)

 11 Medium Telescopes WG report (Davies/Murdin)

 12 European Extremely Large Telescope WG report


 OPTICON in FP6: Policy Discussion

 13 Framework 6 and you (Panayotis Moschopoulos, European Commission)

 14 OPTICON as an I3?
  -- Relation to ENO I3

 15 Choice of Partners

 16 Choice of Coordinator

 17 Possible New Initiatives:

 17.1  Relationship with ALMA (Pierre Cox)
   -- sponsored Capital Construction Proposal?
   -- Other construction proposals: VLTI?

 17.2 Relationship with Herschel/Planck and the ESF (Jean-Loup Puget)

 18 Fellowship Proposal: the next steps

 19 Astrophysical Virtual Observatory: Intentions for FP6

 20 Key Technology RTDs under FP6

 21 COMET
    Management Structure
    Telescopes Content
    Technical RTD content
    Teaching Content/Other teaching proposals
    Applications to other EU funding lines

 22 European Large Telescope Activity

 23 Other issues

 End of meeting