D 3.5 Report: First activity report of Activity 3.7

The deliverable 3.5 was planned to be released within the framework of the ITINERIS project and it is part of the activities of the Work Package (WP)3 concerning the activities organized in the first year of the project by all the OUs involved in Activity 3.7. This deliverable was expected to be released in Bimester 6 and to be included into the Intermediate Objective 3.3 of bimester 6; it is produced under the responsibility of the Operative Unit (OU) of the National Research Council, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET). The main aim of the deliverable 3.5 is to provide a general overview of the training program as planned in Activity 3.7 designed by the Operative Units of WP3 in the first year of the project. The document is structured in 4 chapters, including this chapter. Chapter 2 outlines the activities carried out by the OU CNR-IRET to finalize the protocols of agreements between the Universities and the CNR-IRET for the funding and allocation of ITINERIS fellowships for the XXXVIII and XXXIX PhD cycles foreseen in the project. Chapter 3 describes all the activities carried out in the first year of the project and the description of the courses proposed by the WGs for the scientific Domains involved in WP3 for the Activity 3.7. At the end, Chapter 4 presents the list of acronyms used in the report.