Kick-off meeting
Vienna, 14/15 February 2008
The REPRO kick-off
meeting was attended by 20 participants
representing all nine partner institutions collaborating
in the project and by the
Scientific Officer in charge of the project at the European Commission.
The meeting started with an introduction to the REPRO project presented by project leader and co-ordinator Dimiter Philipov from the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID). REPRO emerged from an earlier study (FERTINT), in which five of the current REPRO partners collaborated for one year (2006/2007). The REPRO application was jointly elaborated in two meetings of the core group.
Marc Goffart, the Scientific Officer, gave an overview of research on demographic and family questions in Framework Programme 7 and explained the European Commission’s funding schemes for scientific projects. REPRO is a collaborative project funded under Theme 8: Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Projects under this heading typically combine problem orientation and policy relevance. The project environment was another item on the agenda of the kick-off meeting.
The rest of the meeting was dedicated to an introduction of work packages 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 by the respective work package leaders and to specifying the partners’ involvement in the project. In particular work package 2 was discussed in detail.
