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CALM Workshop "Research in Environmental Noise:
FP7 and the New Member States"
Budapest, September 13, 2006

Objectives:

Providing information about noise research in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Community for RTD (Research, Technical Development and Demonstration).
Providing information about environmental noise research in the New Member States and promoting involvement of New Member States in FP7.

Workshop Programme
and Presentations (PDF for Printout)

Venue: Hotel Radisson SAS Beke
43 Terez krt. / H-1067 Budapest / Hungary
 
08:15 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Session 1: Opening
(Chairman: Josef Affenzeller, AVL, Austria)
  Welcome & Opening (Josef Affenzeller, AVL, Austria, & Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG Research, EC)
Introduction to CALM (370 kB)
(Alfred Rust, AVL, Austria)
CALM Noise Research Strategy Plan (700 kB)
(Alfred Rust, AVL, Austria)
Environmental Noise Policy in Hungary (350 kB)
(Miklos Szoboszlay, Ministry of Economy and Transport, Hungary)
10:10 Coffee Break
10:30 Session 2: Examples of Research Activities in New Member States
(Chairman: John Hinton, Birmingham City Council, UK)
  Transport Noise Research in Hungary (2 MB)
(Frigyes Reis, Budapest University, Hungary)
Road Transport Noise Research in Poland I (800 kB)
(Piotr Mioduszewski, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland)
Road Transport Noise Research in Poland II (265 kB)
(Darius Sybilski, IBDIM, Poland)
Air Traffic Noise Research across the New Member States (550 kB)
(Delia Dimitriu, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Open Discussion with opportunity for statements from other NMS and Candidate Countries
12:10 Lunch Break
13:30 Session 3: Developing Research Activities to Support EU Noise Policy
(Chairman: Martin van den Berg, Ministry VROM, Netherlands)
  EU Noise Policy in Brief (115 kB)
(Per Kruppa, DG Research, EC)
Experience with Instruments to Conduct EU Noise Research (5.1 MB)
(Bojan Leben, ZAG, Slovenia)
The Socio-Economic Impact of Noise: A Method for Assessing Noise Annoyance (110 kB)
(Truls Gjestland, SINTEF, Norway), with an Introduction (500 kB)
given by Martin van den Berg, Ministry VROM, Netherlands
Requirements concerning the Implementation of the END in the New Member States (1.6 MB)
(Christian Popp, Lärmkontor, Germany)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:20 Session 4: 7th Framework Programme for RTD
(Chairman: Josef Affenzeller, AVL, Austria)
  Overview of FP7 (560 kB)
(Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG Research, EC)

Panel Discussion "How to better involve New Member States into FP7: Requirements and Opportunities"
(moderated by Milos Sturm, Hidria, Slovenia)
Contribution 1 (100 kB) by Dominique Collin, Snecma Moteurs, France
Contribution 2 (40 kB) by Fueloep Augusztinovicz, Budapest University, Hungary
Contribution 3 (180 kB) by Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG Research, EC
Contribution 4 (40 kB) by Joszef Palfalvi, KTI - Institute of Transport Sciences, Hungary

Concluding Remarks (Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, & Per Kruppa, DG Research, EC, & Josef Affenzeller, AVL, Austria)
17:00 End of Workshop
 
Workshop Report
List of Participants
EC News Headlines:
"CALM network brings groundbreaking workshop to Hungary"
"CALM noise reduction workshop lands in Hungary"

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