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<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">Colleagues,</span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3">I have been contacted by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18px; ">Hristo Nikolov (</span>Space Research and Technology Institute,Bulgaria) <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18px; ">to
explore ideas among G4A colleagues for </span> planning virtual G4A Grant Sprints aimed at the next round of H2020 call and identify suitable calls.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3">He also send the link for a good starting point </font><a href="http://www.eurida-research.com/horizon-2020-news/news-18/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.eurida-research.com/horizon-2020-news/news-18/index.html</a> <font face="Verdana" size="3">(see
bottom of the page for links)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3">So we need to first find who will be interested to coordinate these Virtual G4A Grant Sprints for H2020 (building up ideas from Como Grant sprints)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3">Please let us know<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: nowrap; "> if any of you are interested to coordinate this (we will need to have weekly coordination telecalls arranged etc) </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For info. i was involved in another H2020 bid in the last round . We at the University of Nottingham were invited as one of the partners (contributing
to the Open Geospatial Science aspects) of a major bid </span><span style="white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">just</span><span style="white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> submitted last week. It requires
lot of work over atleast 4 months.</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">So i suggest that we plan the following steps </font></span></div>
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<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">(1) Find who all are interested to coordinator, identify suitable call etc</font></span></div>
<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">(2) Select coordinator for the particular call</font></span></div>
<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">(3) All interested to contact the coordinator and arrange participation.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">(4) Coordinator to then take lead and arrange coordination for proposal writing /discussions with all interested members based on their expertise.</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><font face="Verdana" size="3">Any others ideas please let us all know.</font></span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="white-space: nowrap; ">Such<font>ith</font></span></font></div>
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