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Hi Francis, I was equally underwhelmed by the Horizon programme. The more so because I and colleagues had provided advice to them. But I'm afraid you are out-of-touch in claiming that space weather research of real relevance is not done in the UK. For example, we are leading work on CME tracking, on radiation belt, plasmasphere and upper atmosphere models, on the impact of GIC on power grids, on how to mitigate impact of scintillation on GNSS. The National Risk Register now includes space weather - and input from UK researchers was critical to that. We are now getting much encouragement from UK Government, from NERC and STFC to further build up space weather research - also from Brussels via the FP7 programme. This is a good time to do space weather research - we now have the links with policy-makers that can enable research that delivers real impact on space weather problems. Mike ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************