DEVELOPMENT OF THE NETWORK
The principle activities of TATIANA, as an organisation committed to the development of a transnational network, are carried out in an effort to establish cooperation between Universities, Institutions and Enterprises throughout the European Union and are as follows:
1. Presentation and Diffusion of the Association
a.- Visits to Enterprises and Institutions
With the aim of re-confirming commitments and informing partners on a personal basis of the activities developed during 1995, representatives of the Association carried out a total of 14 visits to Enterprises and Institutions in different European countries.
b.- Presentation of the Association in Congress and Meetings
SYMPOSIUM OF CYTOMETRY
February 1995, Málaga, SPAIN
The TATIANA Association were invited to participate and present its project in this Symposium of regional character, organised for the Andalusian Society of Anatomy Pathology. This presented the opportunity to present the Association to a group of professionals from different Spanish Universities interested in the subject of Cytometry.
XXIII SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY OF CYTOLOGY
February 1995, La Coruña, SPAIN
The service of Image Processing in the University of Oviedo recently prepared a Interactive Multimedia system as educative material of continued formation in Cytology. The XXIII Scientific Reunion of the Spanish Society of Cytology was the chosen framework of the presentation of this financial project for the European Social Fund and management for the TATIANA-UETP.
NATIONAL MEETING OF THE SPANISH AUEF'S
March 1995, Madrid, SPAIN
The COMETT information centre, reunited the Spanish UETP's representatives for the last time, to introduce the new European programme, especially the LEONARDO programme. This reunion officially closed our relation with the Centre, although, unofficially, its representatives are now in the Advisory Committee for LEONARDO. We have presented all its advisory and technical support.
XVII NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY OF ANATOMY PATHOLOGY
April 1995, Barcelona, SPAIN
Taking the opportunity to present this Congress, the Association made contact with the health professionals and the committed enterprises in topics of interest to TATIANA. This presented its confirmation in the collaboration of interested societies with the Future European projects.
SPANISH LEONARDO AGENCY
May 1995, Madrid, SPAIN
Representatives of TATIANA came along to this informative reunion, organised for the LEONARDO Agency in Spain, which summoned all interested institutions in this new European initiative. In addition to the Spanish UETP representatives, the LEONARDO Agency invited the representatives of the Education Council for the Autonomy Community, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Employment, organisations that played an essential part in the new programme.
XX LATIN-AMERICAN CONGRESS OF PATHOLOGY
September 1995, Santiago de Chile, CHILE
With the motive of the XX Latin-American Congress of Pathology, representatives of the Association travelled to the American continent to support and capitalise the collaboration, initially established with Latin-American institutions and enterprises, with the aim of the creation of the NEWTON network. As a result of this visit, the network presented its project the ALFA programme, which was actually standardised by the delay of the response of the Commission.
Furthermore, the established contacts in Santiago de Chile invited TATIANA to go to present their projects in other Chilean universities as Valdivia. The great reception for the Association had to be optimistic at the time of consolidation of future collaboration.
c.- Partners visiting the Managing Office
During 1995, a total of 34 representatives of European Partner Institutions and Enterprises visited the Management Office to specify the commitments and establish and organise the collaboration of future projects.
Such actions reflect the scope of transnationality of TATIANA, which received visitors from Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Cuba and the United States of America.
2. Database - Management Information System (DB-MIS)
As in the 1994 Annual Report, in TATIANA, we are always striving to find new methods which will assist us in improving the effectiveness of our operational tasks and choice to carry out a change in the Management Information System.
To implant this elaborately new system in Visual Basic (TIX), which has the capacity, to collect the information on courses, interchanges of students and personnel, necessary detection and additional support for all the members of the organisation.
To connect our local network of the PC base "Windows for Workgroups", so it may agree with TIX from any computer network (4 in total).
TATIANA has recently incorporated a fax-modem for use in connection with TIX, as well as via the Internet. These changes have contributed to a better administrative structure of the organisation and a larger offer of service to the members.
The INTERNET represents a potential for information that has lead TATIANA to the built-in information in the World Wide Web (W.W.W.) of the University of Oviedo. This way it may gain access to the available information of general interest (Newsletter, Annual Report, etc.) as well as the information related with the activities (exchanges, training actions, etc.). TATIANA has also incorporated a fax-modem for use in connection with TIX, as well as via the Internet.
These changes have contributed to better organisation of the administrative structure and larger services to offer to members.
3. Publications
The Association fulfilled various publications, publishing the collected results of the elaborate documentation with the training actions.
a.- General Information
During 1995, 3 newsletters were published, that had accurately gathered together all the information of interest to the members of TATIANA.
Actually this process of elaboration in new TRIPTYCH and a new GENERAL INFORMATION LEAFLET that gathers together the tough changes in the Association with the motive of incorporating the new European programmes.
b.- Publication of books
Técnicas de Fluorescencia en Microscopía y Citometría.
Sampedro A, de los Toyos J.R, Martinez-Nistal A, Servicio de Publicaciones, University of Oviedo, 1995
IV Congreso de la Sociedad Ibérica de Citometría: Libro de Ponencias.
Sociedad Ibérica de Citometría, Oviedo, Mayo 1995
CD ROM Vol 2 was produced by staff at the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
and distributed free of charge as an educational service to the cytometry community.
If you have any comments please direct them to Dr. J. Paul Robinson, Professor & Director, PUCL,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Phone:(317) 494-0757; FAX (317) 494-0517; Web http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
EMAIL robinson@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
