Budapest Workshop

The first CEARES workshop took place in Budapest at the EUROCONTROL CRDS facilities on the 6th and 7th of October 2008. Totally 37 people were present at the workshop in the conference/meeting room of EUROCONTROL CRDS including the invited presenters, the consortium members, the advisory board members and the network members. The CEARES consortium is proud that even Mr Andras Siegler (director of the Transport Directorate of DG Research, European Commission) could attend the event and held a very important presentation as keynote speech. The two-day event was divided into four sessions, chaired by members of the AB or of the consortium (namely Christian Pusch, Jean-Pierre Barthélemy, Marcial Valmorisco and Antonín Kazda).

In the second session, entitled “Best practices in European cooperation” the audience could learn about good practices from Western European participants such as Enterprise Ireland, NIVR, EUROCONTROL and Austrian Research Centers GmbH.

The first session of the second day addressed the ATM topic, while in the last session some of the Eastern European establishments (from Poland, Estonia, Serbia, Hungary and Italy) could present their institute as well as their successful co-operation activities.