date: Mon Jan 19 17:18:02 2004 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: IEP Strategy Conference to: "Peter Hedges" Dear Peter, Many thanks for this. You've put a lot of work into this and I look forward to the conference. My only apology is that I now have to leave by mid-morning (after the first breakout) on the Friday in order to get back to London for a meeting at DEFRA in the afternoon on the Gulf Stream collapse, which I really can't miss. This means I will unfortunately miss the wash-up session with the SAT on the Friday afternoon, but maybe I can leave any key observations with you or Peter before I leave. See you on Thursday, Mike At 17:33 16/01/2004 +0000, you wrote: Dear All, Please find attached the "running order" for the IEP Strategy Conference next week that you may find helpful as it provides some detail on the breakout session and the questions we will be asking the delegates. I hope you are all still able to make it! As a reminder, the objectives for the conference are: * To develop the IEP Strategic Framework as a guide for future investment * To discuss specific programme developments, including the international dimension of the IEP research portfolio, and the issue of inclusive society * To promote collaboration between the different IEP funded activities, and to explore ways of maximising the research outputs of the Programme. The event is also intended to help create an IEP community , and also to have a celebratory element to mark the launch of the first tranche of IEP consortia. The primary role we see for SAT members at the conference is first to provide input to the discussions alongside the other delegates, and secondly to help us assimilate the outputs from the meeting at the informal SAT meeting at the send of the second day. We agreed at the last SAT meeting that members would do their best to make sure that discussion didn't "dry up" and I hope that you will be able to bring some of your own ideas to stimulate the discussion in the different breakout groups. I've assigned you to research theme breakouts (hopefully!) in areas you will be comfortable in - I've also attached a spreadsheet showing the current allocation of delegates to breakout groups so that you can see who you will be working with. The aims of the sessions are as follows: Day 1 Session 1 - in small groups, to discuss how the IEP strategic framework is populated by current research activities Session 2 - in larger, research theme-based groups, to discuss new opportunities for research to fill perceived gaps in the framework Session 3 - in larger, mixed groups, to discuss research opportunities that cut across research themes and opportunities for the integration of research outputs, again cutting across the research themes Dinner with Ian Gibson MP as the after dinner speaker. Day 2 Session 4 - to discuss the inclusive society agenda in more depth in mixed groups following a presentation by Professor Alan Marsh Session 5 - to discuss the international development agenda in more depth in mixed groups following a presentation by Philip O'Neil from DFID. The last session is the one where I feel we have most "risk" of problems. The discussion groups have been based on a number of the UN Millennium Development Challenges, some of which may fairly difficult to discuss from an IEP (and more broadly EPSRC) perspective. The subjects of the groups are listed below (they are in shorthand in the breakout groups list) - please give me a ring next week if you need any further information. Session 5 Breakout Sessions Eradicate Poverty & Hunger Reduce Mortality & Combat Disease Ensure Environmental Sustainability 1 Ensure Environmental Sustainability 2 Ensure Environmental Sustainability 3 Global Partnerships for Development Finally, we've split you up for the dinner so that one SAT member and one Associate Programme Manager is on each table - I hope this is OK with you. I'm in the office of Tuesday and Wednesday of next week if you have any questions. I'm really looking forward to the event - it will be my first real chance in a long time to concentrate on where the Programme should be going in the future. Many thanks, as always for your time and support. Best regards Peter Dr Peter Hedges Programme Manager, Infrastructure & Environment Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council ************************************************************ EPSRC Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1ET Tel: 01793 444176 Fax: 01793 444456 ********************************************************************** Internet communications are not secure and therefore EPSRC does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the EPSRC unless specifically stated. All EPSRC staff can be contacted using Email addresses with the following format: firstname.lastname@epsrc.ac.uk **********************************************************************