NADIR Annual Meeting

2-3 November 2011, in Barcelona, Spain

On the days 2nd and 3rd of November 2011, the 3rd General Meeting of NADIR was held in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting was kindly hosted by the CReSA that invited us to the Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

The aim of the annual meeting was to gather the NADIR partners in order to present and discuss the work achieved for NADIR and plan the tasks for the remaining 18 months of the project. 39 people were registered.

An update on the work performed within NADIR was presented in plenary sessions: research and networking activities are on track with no major deviation according to the DoW. Workshop sessions were also organized by the work package leaders to discuss with the partners, and plan the tasks to be fulfilled until the end of the project. Two extra workshops on Rift Valley Fever and West Nile Fever were proposed.

The dynamic of the partners of NADIR allowed a fruitful meeting in term of interaction and discussion. Some issues have been identified during the sessions and will be solved. The delays are expected to be overcome before the end of the project. A major effort has been initiated on the transnational access activities. It has been emphasized that a lot of work will be achieved in the last 18 months of the project, and will require excellent communication and organization within the work packages.

To conclude we would like to thank David Solanes, Mariano Domingo, Elisabeth Rodriguez, and Javier Abad (CReSA) for the nice meeting in Barcelona.