The first meeting «Kick-off» meeting within the project

START KICK-OFF MEETING

The first meeting «Kick-off» meeting within the project "START" has been placed in the V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials on 5-6 December 2011.

This meeting was devoted to the planning of the START project in the near future, each partner role discussion, responsibilities and contributions of the various project tasks. Also, the EU representative, Thierry Devars expressed the viewpoint of the EU and his expectations from the project that is coordinated by V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials. The meeting was attended by:

•Prof. Nikolay Novikov, Prof. Vladimir Turkevych, Prof. Yuri Nikitin, Prof. Tatiana Prikhna, project secretary Olga Mashkova, V.N. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (ISM);

•Prof. Thierry Cabioc´h, Prof. Jacques Rabier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-PPRIME); 

•Prof. Sylwester Porowski, Prof. Bogdan Paіosz, Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (UNIPRESS). 

•Mr. Iakovos Delioglanis, International Environment and Quality Services North Greece Ltd (Q-PLAN N.G.)

•Mr. Thierry Devars, Project Officer of START.