| From | Mike Hulme | Date | Wed Feb 12 15:45:03 2003 |
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| To | Kabat, dr. P., Schellnhuber (E-mail) | ||
| CC | Alex Haxeltine (E-mail) | ||
| Subject | Re: Letter of Support | ||
| Pavel I will certainly make sure a letter reaches you for Friday. And Good Luck! Mike At 14:07 12/02/03 +0100, Kabat, dr. P. wrote: Dear Mike, John, Alex: referring to out tel. conversation yesterday with Alex, hereby our request for a letter of support/recommendation on behalf of Tyndall for our national Global Change Initiative programme proposal called "Climate changes the spatial planning", ("Climate for Spatial Planning Spatial Planning for Climate); unofficially known to you I guess as as "Netherlands Tyndall-like initiative...) After we have successfully passed the first round of the selection last year with the Dutch Government, we are know in final stages of submitting the final proposal/business plan (deadline 17/2/03 - next Monday). The proposed programme has a total budget of 100 million Euro, of which 49 million is requested from the Government, rest contribution of public and private institutions. As a part of this programme we are aiming to set up Netherlands Centre of Excellence (partly virtual) institute, modelled after Tyndall. Leading parties in this effort are all well known to you: Wageningen (kabat) VU Amsterdam (vellinga) RIVM (metz) KNMI (Komen) ICIS (Rotmans) ECN (Bruggink) plus another almost 50 parties. Could you pls send us a short letter of support, in which you indicate the importance of this initiative for advancing this type global change science, European dimension, UK - NL collaboration, etc, etc? We need to receive this by Friday, so send also by fax pls (apologies for the rush). Letter is to be addressed as follows: Prof. Dr Pavel Kabat Science Director Netherlands National Research Initiative "Climate changes the spatial planning", (ICES KIS 3) Postal address: PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen Visiting address: Lawickse Allee 11, IAC building, room 156 Voice +31 317 474314/74713 (office), +31 653489378 (mobile), +31 264463567 (home); Fax: +31 317495590 I attach 3 documents as background of our proposal Many thanks for your kind help! Pavel, Pier en colleagues < | |||