Skype
meeting, 22 Dec 2016
Started at 8:00 am and ended at 9:00 am GMT
The
attendance
Dr.MehyarGhadeer,
Prof. ChartzoulakisKostas, Prof. Tsimidou Maria, Prof. Favati Fabio, Prof.AL- Absi Khalid, Miss.
DaghmishRuba.
The agenda
1.
The Final workshop.
2.
The final conference
committees
3 Installation of the olive
mill and the pickling line
4 ending the distinguished
trainees to Granada
5 Partners reminders
6 Other issues raised by the partners.
7 Setting the next appointment for the
monthly Skype meeting.
1. The final workshop.
a. Approval of the
final workshop budget by the EACEA.
Partners advised
Dr. Mehyar to sendemailreminders to EACEAabout our inquiry on the budget and
other inquiriesto the EACEA andmake CC to the local Tempus representative in
Jordan. If no answer is provided, it is eligible to phone themand leave
messages.
b. Offers of hotels for
hosting the workshop.
Partners suggested that
we should arrange good prices for hosting the final workshop together withpartners'
rooms (about 50 -55 JDs per night) andfinal meeting room and to get invoices
and receipts with only eligible costs. The EU partners suggested that the
Jordanian ones should undertake the responsibility of choosing the most
appropriate place for the meeting as they cannot have an opinion from far away.MissDaghmishundertook
the responsibility of arrangement of the hotels in collaboration with the
coordinator.
c.
Invitation letter to
the IOC presenter through the Ministry of Agriculture.
Miss Daghmish promised to
make an appointment with the minister next week in order to try to speed upthe
process and ask the Ministry to send the letter to the IOC.Dr. Chartzoulakisalso
suggested to includesomeone fromthe ministry among the organizing committee (co-organizer)
of the final workshop.
d.
Topics that are not covered
by the partners (fertilization and advances in disease control)
Prof. Chartzoulakisrequestedto email partners (according
to their specialty) with the titles of the presentations and the abstracts to
decide if they are within the framework of the project andto see if there is any
missed area to be covered by the invited speakers. Prof. Tsimidou asked Dr.
Mehyar to contact local presenters that are well known (with publications) in
the field of the missed subject ASAP and to see their availability for the
workshop. Partners agreed to have presenters from neighboringcountries to
Jordan such as Egypt and Palestine so they and can easily visit Jordan for the benefit
of Jordan and their countries.
e. Changing the title of the ministry
of agriculture speaker from "Economic Analysis for Olive and
its Product” to "Sector of olive and olive products in Jordan” and not to
overlap the JOPEA presentation.
Miss Daghmishclarifies
that the presentation of JOPEA will be about olive oil sector in Jordan. Dr.
Mehyar mentioned that the presentation of the ministry of agriculture will beon
areas planted with olive trees and their distribution throughout Jordan and types
of cultivars planted in Jordan etc. Prof. Tsimidou asked Miss Daghmish to have
JOPEA presentation to be more on economical analysis and from industrial point
of view to avoid the overlapping with the ministry presentation. This also will
be checked during the abstract reviewing and if any overlapping is found, this
can be overcome by contacting both presenters.
f.
Reviewing process of
the abstracts and papers.
Prof. Tsimidou mentioned
that the coordinator decides to whom the abstract will be sent for reviewingaccording
to the subject of the abstract and since it is a workshop and not a conference,
everybody is responsible about the content of his presentation. If it isdecided
to publish the proceeding after the workshop, we need to evaluate the submitted
papers. Partners agreed that in this stage some work has been done in selecting
the topics but all abstracts should be checked to see that they are within the
scope of the workshop. Prof. Chartzoulakisreminded
partners that we will post some posters for local or neighbor by countriespresenters.
Abstracts of the posters will be evaluated latter on in the same way of evaluation
the abstracts of the oral presentations.Prof Chartzoulakis
promised to send the guidelines for the full paper within the coming ten days.
g. The answer from Prof. Segura about
hosting the proceeding of the workshop as a special volume in the journal
Grassas e Aceitas.
Partners asked Dr. Mehyar to send an
e-mail to Prof. Segura to remind him about this issue.
2. The final conference
committees
The
partners agree that the conference committees be as follows:
a.
The organizing
committee
1. MehyarGhadeer,
Project Coordinator, The University of Jordan
2.ChartzoulakisKostas, Institute for olive tree &
subtropical plants, Greece
3.DaghmishRuba, JOPEA
4.Amin Zakieh, The University of Jordan
Prof.
Chartzoulakis suggests that we can introduce someone fromthe Ministry of Agriculture
in the organizing committee to show respect to them.
b. The Scientific Committee
1. MehyarGhadeer,
Project Coordinator, The University of Jordan
2. Al-Saed, The Former Project Coordinator
3. AL-Absi Khalid, Muta University
4. Chartzoulakis K., Institute for olive tree &
subtropical plants, Greece
5. RababaahTaha, University of Science and Technology
6. Segura-Carretero Antonio, University of Granada, Spain
7. WalidAlrousan, Al Balqa Applied University Al-Huson
8. Tsimidou Maria, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki Greece
9. Verona, Italy
3.
Installation of the
olive mill and the pickling line
Dr.
Mehyar informed partners that the extraction rate of the olive extraction line
is now 22.2% and the acidity of the extracted oil is 2.7. She mentioned that we
are able to have only two runs on the olive mill because it is the end of the
season. Dr. Mehyar informed the partners that the pickling line is installed only
yesterday and some photos for the line were sent to partners by Skype messages.
Dr. Mehyar informed the partners that the operation of the pickling line is
expected to be within the next two days because the Turkish expert is in Jordan
and he is responsible to operate the line after the installation.
4.Sending
the distinguished trainees to Granada
Dr.
Mehyar briefed that the procedure followed in selection of the trainees leaded
to the selectionfrom outside the partners' institutions. Dr. Mehyar mentioned
that the Tempus rules prohibited sending people from outside the partners'
institutions and that she contacted EACEA about that and did not get the answer
until now. The partners agreed to follow the same procedure mentioned earlier
in this meeting in reminding and pushing the EACEA to have the answer ASAP and try
to get a written proof from them about the trainees.
5. Partners reminders
a. Feedback
for Prof. Ali’s final report.
Prof. Chartzoulakisinformed Dr. Mehyarthat
Prof. Ali's final report is being circulated among the European partners for
reviewing and Prof. Chartzoulakis got the commented report from Prof. Tsimidou
andhimself and he had sent itto Prof. Segura, who will send it then to Prof. Favati to get all
modifications in one file. Prof Favati as the representative of EU partners
will submit it to the Coordinator.
b. Submitting the
abstract and short CV for the speakers.
Prof. Favati
promised to send his documents latter on in the same day of meeting. Dr. Mehyar
promised to contact the Jordanian presenters that did not submit their
documents to remind them about that.
c. Submitting the
requested documents for the partners’ financial reports.
Prof.
Chartzoulakis mentioned that ELGO will send their documents at the end of the
January, after a skype meeting of Dr. Psarras with the coordinator to solve
raise issues. Prof. Favati mentioned that the coordinatorshould have three
reports for UV at the end of the project; one for each of the first two years
and the third one covers the third year with the six months extension.Prof.
Favati mentioned that he is preparing a letter about the daily ratein the
financial report in accordance to salary in the UV to be submitted to the EACEA.
6. Other
issues raised by the partners.
a. Prof. Favati mentioned
that the coordinator should introduce the time period of each Skype meeting (starting
and ending times) and the name of the attendees in the minutes. Dr. Mehyar promised
to do that and to resend the modified firstSkype minutes together with the
minutes of the second meeting to the partners.
b. Dr. Mehyar said she
can set separate meetings with partners for discussing the financial issues if
needed.
c. Prof. Favati showed
his concern about the development ofthe MSc. program in olive subjects. Dr.
Mehyar informed the partners that she found document about this in Pro. Ali's
files and the program was not successful because no one registered in the
program. She also mentioned that the text was written in Arabic and the EU
partners asked for a translation in English in continuation of what was
discussed in the Management meetings in Amman, Verona and Thessaloniki.Dr.
Mehyar promised the partners to try getting a letter from the dean of
agriculture stated that no one registered in that program.
7. Setting
the next appointment for the monthly Skype meeting.
Partners agreed that the appointment
of the next Skype meeting to be Thursdays 26thof January 2017at 9:00 amMadrid and Rome time and 10:00 am Amman and Athens
time.
Dr.
GhadeerMehyar
The
project coordinator
26 Dec
2016