| 1996:
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INTAS Council of Scientists (CS) discuss all the requests for financial support outside the normal calls for proposals, and those having an urgent character (Immediate Actions). A pre-selection of six IA was made and one of them was ours. |
| 1997: | INTAS CS accepts our proposal of realizing two dedicated EDP Centres (in Kiev & Moscow) for the retrieval and processing of the old photographic seismic records available there, for a max. INTAS facility of 180,000 ECU. Meanwhile also our CS agrees. |
| Our Scientific Officer sends the final Official documents for the real start of our proposal, classified as INTAS-IA-96-03. These are: the Co-operation Agreement, with annexed: the Work-Programme, the General Conditions and Powers of Attorney to the Co-ordinator. | |
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November
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Intas transmits relevant
documents regarding the transfer of funds, including:
a) Guidelines on the transfer of Funds, and b) Individual Grant Forms for all NIS participants receiving a grant |
| After a deep marketing survey, our 1st request to INTAS for a payment of 68,000 ECU to Moscow partner and 28,000 to Kiev is made, for a first purchasing of hardware and software, in the frame of the Intas payments plan. | |
| 1998: | Second part of our 1st request to INTAS for the transfer of 6,000+6,000 ECU to the Milan and Uppsala Partners. In the meantime our Intas Officer changes: Mr R.Vardapetian replaces Mr L.Goebel. |
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June
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The works advance, and the partners write the 'intermediate Report' to Intas, including our 2nd official payments request. Only a few days later, Intas publishes the 1st release of the 'IA-definitions' and the 'Guideline for the compilation of intermediate and final Reports'. |
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July
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In the meanwhile the first MOSCOW Lab. is successfully installed at Spetsgeofizika's Offices. The technical and operating Moscow meeting of all the participants in the week 13-18 of July was a great success of all the team. We didn't can foresee the incoming crisis... |
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August
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After update the NIS Bank-list which went into agreement, INTAS transfers 2nd 'periodic' payment of 54,000 ECU, mainly directed to finance the new Kiev Lab. (44,000 ECU). The chosen NIS banks are: Vneshtorgbank -in Moscow - and First Uk.International bank (FUIB) - in Kiev. |
| Official request for an extension of the project up to next March 31, 1999. Intas accept, but only up to February 28, 1999 | |
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December
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MOSCOW: their Lab is completed and the first results appear. KIEV: here the Milan and Kiev partners work together in the period 8-18 of December '98, establishing the new seismic Lab. in Kiev (it will be completed at the beginning of '99)... |
| 1999:
February
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On the base of the last Kiev's message we can say that also the second seismic Lab. has been successfully established. The official time-window for our 'Action' is expired, and in two months we'll prepare the final Report for Intas Officials. Last Intas update of the Guidelines for the IA. |
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May
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IA-96-03 ACTION is successfully finished (formally only after the last INTAS payment). The FINAL REPORT shows also the first good results in MOSCOW and KIEV. THANKS TO EVERYBOBY by the Co-ordinator. BUT... |
| 2000:
January
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 BUT
the welcome and wished
final payments came
only with the new Y2K , because of some misunderstandings
on Contract type... |