ESMN in memoriam (1998 – 2006)
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2007
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Rutten, Rob
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Heinzel, Petr
Dorotovic, Ivan
Rutten, Robert J.
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The EC-FP5 European Solar Magnetism Network (ESMN) was terminated during this conference. Together with its FP4 predecessor, the European Solar Magnetometry Network (ESMN), it funded 22 postdoc and 9 graduate-student appointments at nine solar physics groups in Western Europe, it enhanced Europe-wide collaboration in solar physics, and it contributed to the integration of East-European groups in West-European enterprises. Its unfortunate demise results from lack of further fortune in the FP6 lottery. The FP6-funded Utrecht-Stockholm-Oslo graduate school in solar physics represents offspring, the FP6 Solaire network is a partial replacement, and the EAST undertaking and pledge to build an EST is a most worthy FP7 stake. The EC�s policy shifts from postdoc to predoc funding and from requiring (too) small to requiring (too) large consortia are criticized.
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Rutten, R J 2007, ESMN in memoriam (1998 – 2006). in P Heinzel, I Dorotovic & R J Rutten (eds), The physics of chromospheric plasmas : proceedings of the Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting held at the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, October 9 - October 13, 2006. ASP conference series, no. 368, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, pp. 21-24.