The meeting was attended by about 40 participants, mostly french and italians of course, but also australian. Its aim was announced as being one more iteration (after the meeting of Casaccia last April) towards the construction of a joint italo-french astronomical programme for the Concordia station.

    It was a real success, and two main actions were decided to be undertaken as direct consequences:

    1. Maurizio Candidi and Eric Fossat have been asked by the Concordia steering committee to prepare and to present at Siena, next May, a revised version of a long term astronomical programme. Clearly, the topic of this request overlaps at nearly 100 percent the topic of our meeting, and the two reporters will use the meeting informations as the basic and main input for preparing their report. The motivation of this request is very clear: Now the date of the winterover operation of the Concordia station is getting firmer and firmer. The year 2003 should and almost certainly will be the first winter season. It is then becoming necessary to update the scientific programmes, taking into account this now certain opportunity of performing night time experiments and observations.

    2. It was suggested and discussed that a first 'administrative' step for making visible and practical our common will of cooperation could be a european coordination network. In this case, 'european' must be taken in a very broad sense. Such a network can, indeed, include official partners who are geographically quite far from Europe, such as australians. Slimane Bensammar, who is in charge of european relations as INSU at Paris, has accepted to help a lot in the construction of this network application. Again, the main input that he will have in hand is the information that was circulated during our meeting.

    It was then asked to all participants who have made any kind of contribution to make it available to our community, so that more fruitful exchanges can exist and contribute to help both Maurizio, Eric and Slimane to prepare their report and application. The simplest way was to organise a web page on which all files provided by the participants will be accessible.

    You are now connected to this web page. If you have yourself contributed to the meeting and if your contribution is not included here below, please don't wait too long before sending something, as this material will be the main source of information, so that your project and ideas would be facing the risk of being underestimated or ommitted!...

    Send your contributions by e-mail to eric.fossat@unice.fr
    It will appear in this list soon after.

    Again, I have to thank the active contribution of all participants, and we all have to thank the remarkable and appreciated organisation of Isabelle De Angelis.

    Er*c Fossat