Minutes of Meetings

DOE/EERE Project 4 conference call
Minutes
March 11, 2004

Participants:

David Rogers
Rick Brenner
Jeff Baker
Tom Fretz
Eric Young
Jill Long Thompson
Michael Mills

Jeff has sent out preliminary data on university funding from DOE labs.
Jeff will continue to refine this data to identify specific colleges involved, if possible.

SECA agreement is model, but was developed through a one-time negotiation and would have to be done for each unique contract.
There is a need for a boilerplate agreement to use as a starting point for negotiations with universities.
A draft of this boilerplate could be circulated to university IP officers for their opinions, but we’d need to make it clear this would not be a requirement for DOE funding, just an option.
David will repackage SECA document into general language that would be relevant for use with most universities.
A draft would be sent to VPs of Research to get their opinion on the basic terms and conditions.

EERE will explain the various mechanisms they use for funding external work and this will be used to target survey questions to the various types of solicitations.
There is a need to create a process or opportunity for more faculty input and feedback to EERE on ideas for research, which should ultimately lead to more success at bidding for solicitations.
EERE could invite some specific faculty to their program review meetings and/or workshops to increase input and feedback.
EERE will generate a calendar of meetings, forums, conferences, workshops, etc. so that the EDs can inform faculty through the research, extension, and academic directors.