Coordination Funds

电子顺磁共振(EPR)的最新进展主要是由生物和材料科学研究领域的特殊需求推动的。自第一个资助期以来，优先计划一直将来自这两个不同领域的德国研究小组聚集在一起，共同努力扩大EPR光谱学在生物、化学、材料科学和物理领域的前沿。建立一个科学网络对于提供一个科学交流与合作平台至关重要，在这个平台中，通过交流不同领域的专门知识，不断涌现出新的想法。协调员，也就是本提案的申请人，其目标主要包括三项不同的任务，首先在这里概述，并将在以下各节中更详细地概述：·组织网络年度会议·与其他倡议在国际一级产生协同作用·建议参与者并鼓励建立适当的网络，避免可能的利益冲突，并支持青年研究人员和女科学家。为了实现这些目标，协调员得到了方案发起人团队其他成员的协助，他们共同组成了一个正式的执行委员会，并提供了一个内部小组，通过该小组可以讨论和表决重要决定。理事会在该网络的每一次年度会议上举行非公开会议，协调员设立了第二个战略规划平台，即优先方案所有成员(私人投资机构及其科学工作人员)的大会。大会一直在每一次年度会议上举行，并向所有与会者开放，包括审查小组成员和DFG代表，以鼓励交流意见和获得建议。它的作用是报告网络活动，例如青年研究员研讨会(仅由学生和博士后组织和参加)，以讨论与其他倡议(例如美国倡议)的交流，宣布即将举行的会议和学校，以及投票决定后续会议的地点。最后，协调员与行政有关的职责因雇用该计划的一名非科学成员而大大减轻，该成员一直负责所有研讨会的后勤和财务规划，并设计了一个门户网站(www.spp1601.de)，其中包含网络科学活动的大多数信息。对于即将到来的资助期，协调员计划继续进行中的活动，但作为一项重要的新特点，将致力于与新的美国网络--共享EPR--建立协同作用，这是DFG和NSF代表的共同倡议产生的，得到了协调员和执行局的大力支持。

ecent progress in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) has been mainly driven by specific needs in the research areas of biological and materials science. Since the first funding period, the priority program has been bringing together German research groups from these two different fields in a coordinated effort to expand the frontiers of EPR spectroscopy in biology, chemistry, materials science and physics. The creation of a scientific network has been crucial to provide a platform of scientific exchange and collaboration, in which new ideas have been emerging through cross-fertilization of expertise in different areas. The objectives of the coordinator, the applicant of this proposal, have been consisting mainly of three different tasks, which are first summarized here and will be outlined in more details in the following sections:· organizing a yearly meeting of the network· creating synergy at an international level with other initiatives· advising the participants and encouraging suitable networking, avoiding possible conflicts of interestand supporting young researchers and female scientists.To meet these objectives, the coordinator has been assisted by the other members of the initiator team of the program, who together constituted a formal executive board and provided an internal panel, through which important decisions could be discussed and voted. The board met at every annual meeting of the network in a closed session.The coordinator established a second platform for strategic planning, i.e. the general assembly of all members of the priority program (PIs and their scientific co-workers). The assembly has been taking place at each annual meeting and was open to all participants, including members of the reviewer panel and DFG representatives, to encourage exchange of opinions and get advice. It served to report on network activities such as the Young Investigator Workshops (organized and attended only by students and postdocs) to discuss exchange with other initiatives (for instance the US initiative), to announce upcoming conferencesand schools as well as to vote for the location of subsequent meetings.Finally, the administration-related duties of the coordinator have been substantially alleviated by the employment of a non-scientific member of the program, who has been taking care of the logistical and financial planning of all workshops and has also designed a web portal (www.spp1601.de) containing most information of the scientific activities of the network.For the upcoming funding period, the coordinator plans to continue the on-going activities, however as an important new feature, substantial efforts will be devoted in establishing a synergy with the new US network, SHARED EPR, which emerged from a common initiative of DFG and NSF representatives, strongly supported by the coordinator and the executive board.