6th & 7th December 2022 

Hybrid–08.30 -16.30 (GMT+1)

Physical Venue: Auditorium, MCAST Resource Centre(MRC), MCAST Main Campus. Triq Kordin, Paola. Malta.

Online Venue: MS Teams

Agenda 

06 December 2022

TIME TOPIC PRESENTED BY
08.30 

Registration & Welcome Coffee

 
09.00

Welcoming Speech by Dr. Tatjana Chircop, DP R&I 

MCAST
09.10

WP1: Management Matters

Project Status; Deliverable due; Financial Matters & Timesheets; Data Management Plan; Key project Roles: WPL, TL,DL, Ethics officer, DPO, Reviewer
MCAST
10.30

Coffee Break

 
10.45

WP3: Capacity Building for education, R&I, entrepreneurship

Exploratory discussions on available practices and capacities at HEIs for adapting digital/shared water curricula &brainstorming on integration/development potentials. Planning/detailing/consolidating capacity building instruments. Orienting/inducing the entrepreneurship pillar for the project. 

DEU-DESUM*

NMBU

MCAST

11.45

Developing a project activity programme schedule

Establishing a holistic plan for key events, training, targeted conferences and mobilities.

MCAST
12.15

Lunch Break

 
13.00

Visit: MCAST Water Research & Training Centre

Site visit to water network test rig which will be developed as one of the emulated-simulated reality setups during the projects lifetime.

MCAST
14.00

Meeting with SMART4ENV project consortium

WP6: Clustering Activity.

NMBU*

TUAS

14.30

Workshop: Intercultural communication in projects

H2O People

16.30

Wrap up

Wrap-up. Summary of agreements made and planning.

MCAST

16.45

Personal Time

 

19.15

Networking Dinner

 

 

 

 

07 December 2022
TIME TOPIC PRESENTED BY
08.30 

Welcome Coffee

 

09.00

WP2: Setting  the Scene Creating Critical Mass by Shared governance and R&I strategy

A Discussion based workshop to go through on going activities being planned as part of this work package.

MENDELU*

UNISITES

UNEXE

10.30

 

Coffee Break

DEU-DESUM*

NMBU

MCAST

10.45

Workshop: WATERLINE LEs technology road mapping

During the session partners shall be invited to:

(1) demonstrate /showcase existing capacity that each partners already have.

(2) review technologies that can be integrated in LEs.

(3)  brainstorm LE applications to be developed.Developing a project activity programme schedule

UNEXE
11.45

WP4: Equipment and procurement mechanisms

Discussing a procurement strategy for the purchase of equipment

UNEXE
12.15

Lunch Break

 
13.00

WP5: Facilitating sustainability

The objective of this session is to kick-off the work and plan the activities aligning with the WP goals. Topics shall include:

-Value and sustainability: what and how to achieve

-Matching our priorities with the European funding landscape

-Policy exploitation: understanding the needs and making first steps

-Ambassador networks: quality or quantity, and how to develop

 

NMBU*

SITES

UNEXE

13.30

WP6: Clustering Plan

TUAS

14.00

14.00Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan

Discussion on plan for work related to the Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan

MCAST

14.15

Discussion: Securing workflows and output supplies between the demanding WPs

Open discussion to establish key linkages between work packages.

DEU-DESUM*

MCAST

16.45

Site Visit: Water Services Corporation

Meeting with members of one of WATERLINE’s associated partner pertaining to industry.

WSC

17.00

Networking event at Mdina

MCAST

19:00

Closure of Kick-off event

MCAST