<html><body><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size=2>--- coen@eyfa.org wrote:<BR><BR>>the idea to have the meeting in Ukraine is good, but because of the<BR>>'funding rules' this specific meeting must basically take place in berlin,<BR>>because of travel, accomodation tickets etc for the report writing. It's<BR>>the negative side of funding, they (Council of Europe) demand this kind of<BR>>logicstical evidence for a Berlin meeting.<BR><BR>>Coen<BR>>eyfa <BR> <BR>Perhaps we need to be aware of the impact of funding restrictions and how they relate to the objectives of funding organisations.<BR> <BR>e.g. one of the objectives of the Council of Europe is:<BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"• promote awareness of a European identity based on shared values and cutting across different cultures."<FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT><BR><BR></FONT>For I while I participated with the Leornado programme, which was encouraging interchange between graduates across Europe, principally enabling people from Italy to engage in self-defined research projects in London. The last occasion of doing this ended up very traumatic . . . which made me question objectives such as this. <BR><BR>On the other hand without funding, how much is possible? <BR><BR>Fabian<BR></FONT><br> <br><hr>Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net<br></body></html>