Closing Report From the Summer Institute 2003

Abstract

The “Participants Evaluation” part of this text is gathered and written by Åsa Rurling. Magnus Kirchhoff is responsible for the rest of this text. To keep the values and nuances in the language, the participants notes are kept in Swedish, if they were not given in English. Also some of the enclosed documents that were used in the preparatory stages of the project are kept in Swedish since they most likely only are of concern for Swedish readers. In the assignment for the Summer Institute 2003, was embedded the task to find the future National Project Manager and I am extremely happy to, after finishing this report, be able to hand over to Magnus Gustafsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. I am confident he will add very much to the SI idea and activity. During the year long preparation I have also happily received the message that it has been decided that a Summer Institute will be organised at Hong Kong University in 2004 by Dr Catherine Robinson. It is for people like them, who want to carry on the SI ideas, I wrote a rather detailed and extensive finishing report from the Summer Institute 2001 and I will have to refer to that for more specific information. This report is much briefer.