Short Notice on the history of EDUCE

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Short Notice on the history of EDUCE
Gunther Seckmeyer Institute for meteorology
University Hannover
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History of EDUCE

• First idea in 1993
• Better usage of long-term measurements at home
  sites
• Improved communication within the growing UV
  community
• Joint evaluation of European Data

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1994

• First contact to Georgios Amanatidis
• First contact to Petteri Taalas in les Diablerets
• Scandinavian countries and Austria are close
  joining EU

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1995

• Defining consortium for Scientific UV data
  Management (SUVDAMA) (you cant do that!)
• Submission of the project with 30 partners
• Major critics of the evaluators Too large,
  impossible to coordinate
• ?A risky project

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1996-1999

• 23-25 October 1996 kick-off-meeting in
  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
• 10-12 June 1997 workshop in Savonlinna, Finland
• October 1998 final workshop at castle Seggau,
  Austria

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Major achievements and difficulties of SUVDAMA

• Database working
• Several joint scientific papers with new results
• Improved communication within the UV community
• It took too long to find the common language
• Database was not user friendly
• Lack of a scientific secretary

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1999

• Definition of a follow-up project
• Extremely difficult environment
• New management structure

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2000

• February My change to Hannover
• Delayed begin with changed resources

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2000-2003

• October 2000Vienna, Austria
• September 2001 Bordeaux, France
• 2001 inclusion of NAS partners
• October 2002 Halkidiki, Greece
• March 2003 Saariselkä, Finland
• October 2003 Krakow, Poland

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Preliminary major Conclusions

• Evaluators are correct (usually)
• Fight for your ideas, they are right (usually)
• Creating a spirit of European cooperation is
  worth the effort (usually)
• Long-term ideas (e.g. European UV database)
  remain (usually)