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Dear MCT,</div>
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Thank you for your work and for the presentations delivered during last week’s MCT meeting.</div>
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As always, all meeting materials, including the presentation slides and the minutes, are available on our SharePoint: <span class="entityDelimiterBefore" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span class="_Entity _EType_OWALink _EId_OWALink _EReadonly_1" style="display: inline-block;"><span><a href="https://icfo.sharepoint.com/:f:/r/sites/PIXEurope/Shared%20Documents/MCT/02.%20Meetings/Meeting%2016042026?csf=1&web=1&e=bxF1PO" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="OLK_Beautified_OWAf91b4091-46ae-cea9-8fd9-694359f3947b" class="OWAAutoLink BKfv6 eScj0 none" data-ogsc="" style="padding: 0px 1px; border-radius: 2px; user-select: all; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);" data-loopstyle="linkonly"><img class="suRDx" alt="" role="presentation" width="18" height="18" style="width: 16px; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 1px 2px 2px 0px;" src="https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/assets/fluentui-resources/1.1.0/app-min/assets/item-types/24/folder.png">Meeting
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As discussed during the meeting, we would now like to start preparing the agenda for the<u> in-person meeting</u> that will take place on
<b>19 May in Barcelona</b>.</div>
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Please find bellow the points that we at ICFO would like to address. We would greatly appreciate your views and suggestions on these topics to help make the meeting as productive and constructive as possible.</div>
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<b>5 min updates on: </b></div>
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<b>Procurement/Finance (Noelia)</b></div>
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<b>Training (Liz)</b></div>
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<b>Interoperability (Padraic)</b></div>
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<b>Equipment/Amendments (Joao/Ana)</b></div>
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<b>Communications and events (Sabine)</b></div>
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<b>Longer slots allocated for </b></div>
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<b>Data Management (Marika/Ana/Marina)</b></div>
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<b>Open Access (Alona/Katia)</b></div>
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<b>Gateway Phase 1 (Marika)</b></div>
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<b>Collaboration Agreement (Sergi)</b></div>
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<b><i>Open Discussion: Scope and Purpose of the</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Management and Coordination Team. How do we</i></b></div>
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<b><i>work more effectively together? </i></b></div>
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Thank you and best regards, </div>
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<b>Ana Aguarod Franco (she / her)</b></div>
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<b>Pilot Line Project Officer </b></div>
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ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences </div>
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Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3 </div>
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08860 Castelldefels </div>
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Barcelona - SPAIN</div>
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