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40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly – VarSITI lunch-time meeting
August 4, 2014, Moscow, Russia

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VarSITI lunch-time meeting at COSPAR 2014.
Kazuo Shiokawa

A lunch-time VarSITI meeting was held on August 4, 2014 during the COSPAR 2014 Assembly. About 50 people attended (see photo). K. Shiokawa (VarSITI and SPeCIMEN), D. Nandi (SEE), J. Zhang (ISEST/Minimax24), and W. Ward (ROSMIC) made presentations to introduce and update VarSITI Projects. The slides of these presentations are available at http://www.varsiti.org/. M. Guhathakurta reported the possibility of VarSITI-related funding in the US from NASA and NSF. D. Pallam Raju reported on the current status of SCOSTEP-related funding situation in India including CAWSES and VarSITI. Collaboration between VarSITI and NASA ILWS activity was encouraged by the audience. M. Grande announced the SCOSTEP capacity-building activity to send young scientists and students from developing countries to some host institutions for a few months.