1. PARTICIPATION OF NEW COUNTRIES:

1.a COST countries:

- Two COST countries have finalized their involvement since KO meeting: Slovenia (MC: M. O Loughlin) and Switzerland (MC: M. Blau (Bern) and M. Gaberdiel (Zurich)). 

- Turkey (D. Van den Bleeken) is in the process of joining. More turkish scientists will be contacted.

1.b Non-COST countries with special agreement:

- South Africa (U. Johannesburg and U. Cape Town) already approved

- Argentina (U. Buenos Aires) in the process of completing application to join

- Australia cancelled agreement with COST. They expressed their will to be involved as non-COST country.

1.c Non-COST countries:

CERN and CECS (Chile) involvement is pending COST Officer approval.

U. Catolica de Chile,  U. de Chile and Stanford U. are in the process of completing their application 

COST rapporteur expressed the convenience to add new COST countries to increase the budget. 

Core group will decide on new countries joining, both COST and non-COST, taking into account previous suggestions from MC.

2. WEBPAGE:

Beta-site of the website has been sent by Micha Berkooz few weeks ago:

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/COSTeu

V. Dobrev will collect suggestions for the webpage that he will then send to Micha.. Deadline for collecting suggestions is september 18.

It is suggested that seminar pages and conference lists are linked to the website. 
Postdoc positions will also be announced. This will be coordinated by Riccardo.

3. NEW PARTICIPANTS:

MC representatives from each country will prepare a second list (LIst 2) (see MoU for the list of current participants to the Action (List 1)) to include new people willing to be involved, also young people. This list should be sent to Anna Ceresole and Elias Kiritsis before october 4.

4. WORKING GROUPS:

MC decides to include Riccardo Argurio in the core group of WG2 given his involvement in the WG2 activity in Bern.

COST rapporteur advises combined activities be organized among the different WGs, to increase interaction. 

5. GENDER:

Anna and Yolanda will represent the Action in the "Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics", to be held in Trieste next week.

6. NEXT EVENT: 

Weizmann WG3/WG1 event: January 12-17 2014. We allocated 27K in our annual budget for this event. An increase of the maximum allowance for traveling as well as accommodation will be asked to the COST office. MC approved that Core Group will meet there, MC will not meet till september 2014.  

7. STSMs:

Anna explains full functioning. MC decides that there will be a call for STSM at the beginning of october, even if the website is not yet operative. 30K need to be spent on this before June 2014. Decision on STSM will be made by the Core Group of WG4, who will consult the WG leaders if necessary.

8. ACTIVITIES FOR SECOND YEAR:

8.a Gabriel Lopes Cardoso presents the proposal from Portugal to hold a SCHOOL in Lisbon (9 to 11) and Porto (14 to 18) in July 2014, in cooperation with HoloGrav and GAES. COST would participate with 25K. MC suggests that the program be improved such that the school in Lisbon is extended to the whole week to include all WG topics in the Action. The second week in Porto would be a WG1 event and core group of WG1 would contribute to the organization. This is under discussion with Gabriel and Miguel Costa.

8.b.  Three proposals are presented for the next ANNUAL WORKSHOP: Leuven (A. Van Proeyen), Mainz (G. Honecker) and Varna (V. Dobrev). MC approves Mainz for 2014 (in september, dates not yet completely fixed) and Leuven for 2015 (september). 

Other proposals for coming years: Jeff Murugan to hold a WG1/WG3 event in Cape Town, ZA; Jan de Boer to co-fund the Cargese Summer School in 2016 and Marian Lledo to organize an annual workshop in Valencia. These will be further discussed. It is agreed that from now on there will be calls from WG4 for presentations of new proposals for the different events.