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Minutes of the Kick-off Meeting

21st-22nd February 2014

Kotor, Montenegro

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Kick-off Meeting was held in Kotor (Montenegro). The host was the Project Coordinator - University of

Montenegro (Faculty of Maritime Studies Kotor) and the Chairman was Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić, the Dean of the

Faculty.

The Meeting objectives were:

� Introduction of the Consortium partners and their mutual networking through communication,

� Familiarisation with the main Project items (wider and specific objectives, workpackages, activities,

outcomes/outputs, management structures, individual responsibilities of each partner etc.),

� Discussion on the Project realization plan for the first implementation year,

� Development of the project management structures.

The Kick-off meeting was attended by 53 participants from 16 institutions. Representatives from the Shkodra

University “Luigj Gurakuqi” as well as the representatives from Institute of Transport, Ministry of Public Works

and Transportation were unable to attend the Meeting.

The Kick-off Meeting started with welcome speeches by the Dean of the Faculty of Maritime Studies Kotor

Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić, Rector of the University of Montenegro Prof. dr Predrag Miranović, representatives of

the Montenegrin Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science as well as representative of National Tempus

Office in Montenegro.

Following the welcome speeches, the Dean of Faculty of Maritime Studies, Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić gave a brief

presentation of the MArED Project, related to the project wider and specific objectives, workpackages and

activities.

The project presentation was followed by introducing presentations of the Project partners from PC

institutions, both Montenegrin and Albanian.

During the afternoon session, participants from the EU countries were presenting their institutions. Following

these presentation, the representative of the National Tempus Office, Mrs. Vanja Drljević gave a more detailed

presentation on the legal, organizational and financial aspects of the Project.

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In the evening, all participants had the opportunity to visit historical and cultural monuments of Kotor through

an organized guided tour.

The second day of the Meeting started with visit to the Maritime Faculty premises. After the tour, the Dean of

the Faculty Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić gave a detailed presentation on the Project Management, including

establishment of the management structures (Project Steering Commitee, Project Advisory Board, Quality

Control Steering Committee and Dissemination and Sustainability Steering Committee).

Project Steering Committee has been established and consists of contact persons from each partner

institution. Also, the Coordinator sugests that the Project Advisory Board consists of academic partners’

respresentatives. Quality Control Steering Committee has been agreed upon and established, consisting of

representatives from each partner institution and will be responsible of the quality control and monitoring of

all project results. Dissemination and Sustainability Steering Committee has also been established.

The Coordinator presented the rules and responsiblities of each Project partner for the first year of the project

implementation period. After the presentation of Mr. Ranko Lazović from National Tempus Office, the

Coordinator presented abrief Case study in regard with the management of Grant Headings followed by

questions of participants.

At the end of the second day of the Kick-off Meeting, all participants went for a lunch and a tour around the

Bay on a pleasure boat. During the tour, partners had a chance of exchanging their experiences in order to

create stronger bilateral contacts and positive atmosphere as a good base for successful cooperation and

Project implementation.

The Kick-off Meeting was estimated as very well organized and facilitated, with interesting contents and great

opportunity for inter-partner communication and discussion.

The next meeting has been scheduled for April 2014 in Split (Croatia), aiming to bring together all academic project members.

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List of Participants:

21st February 2014. in Hotel Cattaro

PC partners

University of Montenegro - ME

Rector, Prof. dr Predrag Miranović

Dean, Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić

Doc. dr Milena Dževerdanović-Pejović

Doc. dr Špiro Ivošević

Dr Tatijana Dlabač

Mr Stevan Kordić

Mr Senka Šekularac-Ivošević

Željko Pekić

Mr Zorica Grego

Radmila Gagić

Ministry of Education of Montenegro – ME

Biljana Mišović

Crnogorska Plovidba A.D. Kotor – ME

MSc Slobodan Starović, director

Capt. Branislav Kordić

Institute for Transportation – ME

Teodor Nikolić, director

Zdenka Knežević

Invar-Ivošević Ltd. – ME

Vasko Ivošević, director

MSc Nikolina Brajović

Montenegrin Association for New Technologies -

ME

Dmitry Tarasov

Tijana Vujović

Katarina Đelević

National Tempus Office – ME

Vanja Drljević

Ranko Lazović

Ministry of Science – ME

Mr Darko Petrušić

Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs – ME

Željko Lučić

Vlora University - AL

Rector, Prof. dr Albert Qarri

Dean, Prof. dr Kristofor Lapa

Prof. dr Mira Shehu

Prof. dr Shkelqim Sinanaj

Chamber of Commerce of Vlora Region - AL

Mr. Arben Breshani

Mrs. Merita Murati

General Maritime Directorate - AL

Mr. Vladimir Naqellari

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Port of Vlora – AL

Xhevair Celoalijaj

Astrit Banushaj

Brikena Toto (Tepelena)

EU partners

Leiter der Akademie Für Neue Medien und

Wissenstransfer – AI

Mag. Dr Michael Kopp

Departament de Ciència i Enginyeria Nàutiques

Universitat Politèchnica de Catalunia - ESP

Dr F. Xavier Martinez de Osès

Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport – SI

Doc. dr Capt. Jelenko Švetak

Prof. dr Elen Twrdy

Navigation and Maritime Transport Faculty – RO

Costel Stanca, PhD

Liviu Constantin Staň

University of Split – HR

Dean, Prof. dr Rosanda Mulić

Prof. dr Pero Vidan

Doc. dr Nikola Račić

Doc. dr Sc Merica Slišković

Zvonimir Lušić

22nd February 2014. at the Faculty of Maritime Studies

PC partners

University of Montenegro - ME

Dean, Prof. dr Danilo Nikolić

Doc. dr Milena Dževerdanović-Pejović

Doc. dr Špiro Ivošević

Dr Tatijana Dlabač

Mr Stevan Kordić

Mr Senka Šekularac-Ivošević

Željko Pekić

Mr Zorica Grego

Radmila Gagić

Ministry of Education of Montenegro – ME

Biljana Mišović

Crnogorska Plovidba A.D. Kotor – ME

Slobodan Starović, Msc, director

Capt. Branislav Kordić

Institute for Transportation – ME

Teodor Nikolić, director

Zdenka Knežević

Invar-Ivošević Ltd. – ME

Director, Vasko Ivošević

MSc Nikolina Brajović

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Montenegrin Association for New Technologies - ME

Tijana Vujović

Katarina Đelević

National Tempus Office – ME

Vanja Drljević

Ranko Lazović

Vlora University - AL

Rector, Prof. dr Albert Qarri

Dean, Prof. dr Kristofor Lapa

Prof. dr Mira Shehu

Prof. dr Shkelqim Sinanaj

Chamber of Commerce of Vlora Region - AL

Mr. Arben Breshani

Mrs. Merita Murati

General Maritime Directorate - AL

Mr. Vladimir Naqellari

Port of Vlora – AL

Xhevair Celoalijaj

Astrit Banushaj

Brikena Toto (Tepelena)

EU partners

Leiter der Akademie Für Neue Medien und

Wissenstransfer – AI

Mag. Dr. Michael Kopp

Departament de Ciència i Enginyeria Nàutiques

Universitat Politèchnica de Catalunia - ESP

Dr. F. Xavier Martinez de Osès

Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport – SI

Doc. dr Capt. Jelenko Švetak

Prof. dr Elen Twrdy

Navigation and Maritime Transport Faculty – RO

Dr Costel Stanca

Liviu Constantin Staň

University of Split – HR

Dean, Prof. dr Rosanda Mulić

Prof. dr Pero Vidan

Doc. dr Nikola Račić

Doc. dr Sc Merica Slišković

Zvonimir Lušić