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Minutes of the Joint Study Steering committee video meeting 02.12.04 Vaasa-Umeå. 9:00-11:15:
Participants: Ronny, Göran, Riku, Timo_V, Johanna and Jarmo.
(Kimmo was in USA and will return to the steering group work after his journey)

Johanna Backman (chair), Jarmo Alander (secretary):

1. Comments on the last meeting notes: approved without changes.
(correction: Timo_V will participate rector meeting at Umeå 15th Dec 2004
Göran's material missing,
and suggestions for somewhat more verbose notes.).

2. Agenda: OK. while items 4 and 9 deleted as nonrelevant at this time.

3. Messages:
Ronny: Swedish Energy Engineering Virtual University is starting in next Autumn.
That is why Ronny will be occupied by that so that he is not able to participate this project as coordinator.
We will return to this at item 5 (coordinators).
(Ronny could you supply the link to the virtual university, please?)
Six (6) universities in Sweden is participating the virtual university (Gävle, Uppsala, KTH, Linköping, Karstad and Umeå)
Timo_V arrived.: In thermodynamics course about 11 students in Finland (and 30 in Sweden). Currently planning labs in Umeå (nearly the same as for Umeån students).
Jarmo: mostly busy with the web system. BTW there are now altogether about 50-100 a4 pages worth of information on TAU-pages.
Riku: wants to resign from the steering group.
Johanna: no messages.

4. (omitted as nonrelevant)

5. Coordinators:
Jarmo: Vaasa is seeking a coordinator for post graduate studies. The job will contain also Joint study coordination. The deadline for the application for this open post id 17th December 2004. (more info on this can be found on UV home pages)
Tfe: no plans for the next coordinator.
Timo_V: one alternative is to have the Finnish coordinator to coordinate also Umeå.
Johanna: deadline for the coordinator assignment is 15th February 2005. (Without coordinator(s) the project will be cancelled and the funding reallocated.)

6. Reports from working groups:
Ronny: suggestion for energy engineering courses to Timo submitted just before the previous meeting still valid.
There was quite much discussion about this proposal and its high price and how it could be fit to the project budget. Here main themes:

The courses are existing courses that are adapted as distance courses.

The price is quite high (160.000SEK/course).

Energy engineering as such is important topic but currently there are no major's students in this area in Vaasa!

The possible courses could be FEMlab (Heat transport?) and Hydrodynamics (Fluidmechanics) during next Fall.
Jarmo asked the chairlady to return back to agenda and re-enter this topic in later in agenda.
Riku: no activities because there does not seem to be mutual interests. EMC course could be such a mutual interest.
Timo: labworks will be done in Wärtsilä lab next Spring (March-April). For that is needed about 10.000SEK for travel.

7. New joint courses:
The attached plan was went through while trying to allocate resources to various courses.
Johanna: It seems that the budget structure could be something as follows:
The total budget is 750.000SEK out of which 100.000SEK is work of each university so that the funding to the project is actually 650.000SEK, which could be further subdivided as
350.000SEK reserved for coordinators (and traveling etc) and 300.000SEK for joint courses.
The largest course funding proposed is for energy engineering (without any major's students in Vaasa) 160.000SEK leaving 140.000SEK for all of the rest courses (automation, telecom, computer science, electrical engineering, electronics).

8. Modules and working groups:
Most of this was covered in the above item.
Modules: were considered not necessary currently by Umeå.
Jarmo: we need to get the administration working on practical things like registration of students and how the results are registered to study register.
Very soon this means de facto joint modules such as the energy engineering joint course group.
Riku: also there need to be rules for the study officers to deal with modules consisting of joint courses even if there is not distinct joint modules.
In practise we need some funding for these activities also.
Also the administration has the feeling that funding is also needed to support e.g. translation of official documents related to joint studies.
As a conclusion this important aspect of future and funding was quite dynamically developing.
Jarmo: sorry if I could't follow all lines of discussion. I think we need to rethink this budget part. Could we continue by the rough figures and make up the finer details in next meetings?
In any case we should have at least half a dozen course each having about 15 students and about 4 persons involved per course giving us in total about 100 students and 30 persons involved (some may be participating several courses in practise).
I consider it still important to include computer science to our workplan (Eklund).

9. Future funding (omitted as redundantthis time):

10. Working plan and co-financing.
Mostly covered already at item 8.

11. Next meeting:
Friday 18. February 2005 as video meeting, 10:00 Finnish time.

12. Misc:
The rectors and Timov_V will meet in Umeå 15th December 2004.
10th December there will be a seminar on double degree at Vaasa.

13. Closing:
Johanna closed the meeting at 11:15 Finnish time by saying that this has been a very challenging project.
Jarmo: I think that we can all agree Johanna's opinion.
Thank you for the participation and have a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year on both sides of the Kvarken region.

Some after meeting notes:
Jarmo:
I have written a short memo on our project for the rectors.
A copy is also mailed to the steering group members.

I have also discussed with Patrik and he has some nice ideas about our future and how modern technology can be used in our joint framework.
Here one link: DITRA_UmU.

I have also discussed about having some more automation with web pages.

ANY COMMENT, CORRECTIONS, ETC ARE WELCOME!

Agendas

For video meeting to be held Thursday 2nd December 2004.
Proposed roles: Johanna Backman (chair), Jarmo Alander (secretary).

1. Comments on the last meeting notes:

2. Approval of agenda:

3. Messages:
Ronny:
Timo_V:
Jarmo:
Riku:
Johanna:

4. Planning and organization of courses and programmes at the faculty of science and technology, UmU. (Göran)

5. Coordinator in Vaasa: current plan is to integrate joint study coordination to post graduate study coordination (Alander).

6. Reports from working groups:
Ronny:
Timo_V:
Jarmo:
Riku:

7. New joint courses:

8. Modules and working groups:

9. Future funding:

10. Working plan and co-financing for the next year (2005):
(Plan draft by Jarmo after attached after these minutes)

11. Next meeting:

12. Misc:

On 10th December there will be a half day Joint Study Double Degree seminar in Vaasa. A representative from Ministry of Education will be there, also.

On 15th December the rectors will meet in Umeå. There should also be somebody from Vaasa (Jarmo: Janne is available).

13. The meeting closure.

Plans

Plan for 2005

This this how one of us (Jarmo) sees how we could continue Joint Study project:

Year 2004

Our activities and plans are based on the work done and experience gained during the year 2004: Courses that we run during 2004:

Embedded systems (done)

Sound processing (done)

Thermodynamics (going on)
There was some discussion every now and then about the administration and coordination: quite as many opinions as there were participants to these discussions.
Funding also raised some discussions and the traveling. (when writing this the ferry is still on ground in front of Umeå harbor!)

From the the above we might conclude that running the courses seems to be relatively easy, which is good news from the practical point of view. Thank you very much for the teachers for the great job they have done!

Next some thoughts about the activities that we could have for the year 2005:

Year 2005

Joint courses

At least the following courses would be nice to have
TAU (automation):

TAU.117 Fuzzy systems / Spring 2005 (Eklund, Alander)

TAU.126 Medical imaging / Fall 2005 (NIRCe: Geladi, Lindahl?, Eklund, Drewes, Alander)

TAU.xyx Virtual automation ( ditto )

New: TAU.zyx Product safety together with the Polytechs?

New: Control theory (basics) Fall 2005 (Shiriaev, Alander)

New: Remote sensing?

New: Some TAU course for Umeå also (GA) ?!

ENE (energy engineering):

Heat transport / Fall 2005

Fluid dynamics / Fall 2005

TTE (computer science):

New: Human Computer Interaction? (Salmenjoki, Waterworth)

New: Electronic commerce innovations? (Salmenjoki, Holmström)

New: Some TTE course also for Umeå?!

TLT (telecom):

New: Mobile applications? (Wiberg, Jäntti)

New: Others?

MTE (materials, prof. Pekka Ruuskanen)

New: metals (steel, aluminium, etc)

New: TAU.xyx Protein physics (Alander et al)

Joint modules

TAU.medical Medical imaging (Eklund, Lindahl? Alander)

Energy (more courses?!)

SAH (Electrical engineering)

EMC course

Joint Research

signal processing

soft computing (GA, fuzzy, NN)

wind energy (weather etc)

Participants

It has been suggested that the Vaasa polytechs would both join us.
I have discussed with Erkki Hakkarainen and he said that their rector (Paaso) will make the decision; perhaps when in Umeå on 15th Dec 2004.
It has also been suggested that both polytechs would pay participation fee of 50.000SEK each as do the currently participating institutes.

Misc

Budget for 2005

The total sum for year 2005 is 700.000 SEK (+ possibly the amount of polytechs fees = 100.000SEK).
On The Finnish side this means 350.000SEK, which could be allocated as follows:

50.000SEK for coordinator's expences

100.000SEK for work on joint modules

200.000SEK for work on implementing joint courses

100.000SEK optional for cooperation with the polytechs

Where the money is going and what do we get?

Some questions from Johanna:

How many students? An estimate (Jarmo) is that from Vaasa we will have on the average 15 students / course.

How much personel will be involved? An estimate (Jarmo) is that there will be 3 persons involved / course.

How much do the coordinators costs? I (Jarmo) have already put 50.000SEK for coordinator in Vaasa. This should also include his/her traveling.

How much for traveling? It depends, if the ferry is moving etc. Difficult to estimate.

How much will be allocated to different working groups? My (Jarmo) proposal: allocation by the number of courses involved.

Jarmo: Should we also reserve some money to build telecom infra?

Kurstorget / Nina Selin

Memorandum
Kurstorget i Umeå, den 6 October 2004
Nina Selin, International_Office of the University of Vaasa, Finland

" The time was just perfect for me because all international studies coordinators from all higher education institutions in Vaasa (University of Vaasa, Hanken – Swedish School of Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Svenska Yrkeshögskolan and Vaasa Polytechnic) had a meeting on the same day with the international staff at Umeå Universitet.

I agreeded with Ronny Östin från Umeå Universitet that I will be on the boost at 13-15 pm. On the boost I noticed that quite many students were surprised that representative of University of Vaasa was there. I discussed about studying opportunities with c. 20 students and 4-5 of them were really interested. I also met some teachers and lecturers who were also interested in this kind of co-operation and were willing to come to Vaasa to promote technology studies that are available at Umeå Universitet.

As a result I would recommend that during the coming semesters, both parties participate this kind of happenings and spread the information about the project among the students and the lecturers. "

Acknowledgements

Johanna, UniZon and last but not least the teachers of the joint courses!
Pekka Isto coordinator of post graduate studies and joint study project.

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