date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:43:12 +0000 from: Trevor Davies subject: Re: UEA community decarbonisation project to: Mike Hulme Interesting....... If unsuccessful with the Gvt scheme, that sort of thing might be a way of levering more money out of EEDA If EEDA does come up with (an original) 60-100K, have you given any thought to how it might be used? Some of it as 50% towards TC PhD studentships? Trevor At 20:05 16/02/01 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Peter, Iain and Nikki, > >Just a quick note to keep you posted about the UEA community >decarbonisation project ............ Trevor and I have begun to develop our >thinking a little further and we met with the UEA senior executive team >yesterday (from Vice-Chancellor downwards) and have got an enthusiastic >'yes' to develop the concept and start putting a scoping study >together. The VC also indicated we may get some 'seed' money from the East >of England Development Agency, which of course we will be looking to >supplement from the C Trust (perhaps) and other sources. We are working on >a 2-page concept note now for you and colleagues at the Trust and should >have that ready in 1-2 weeks time. We would really like to keep a close >relationship with you on this one and see how it can synergise with C Trust >objectives. > >One immediate proposal to make is for us to bid to the following scheme >......... > >"The Government has set up a scheme to fund ten academic summer placements in >Whitehall starting in June 2001. The aim is to strengthen links with the >research community and encourage its involvement in policymaking - which >sounds just the type of thing the Tyndall Centre should be getting into. >Each two month placement carries a grant of £10 000 plus reasonable travel >and accommodation expenses and involves a commitment to spending at least >four weeks at the Government Department concerned (e.g. DETR or MAFF). The >deadline for applications to reach HM Treasury is 26 March 2001. More >details are available at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/placements2001/" > >and see whether one of our team can work with C Trust over the summer to >help develop the community decarbonisation concept and the role of the C >Trust within it (but since the C Trust will be *outside* government by then >may this cause a difficulty?). > >Glad to hear you now have an excellent Chairman in Ian McAllister. > >Regards for now, > >Mike > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Professor Trevor D. Davies Dean, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Tel. +44 1603 592836 Fax. +44 1603 507719 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++