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Steering committee discussions. MVS asked where Alzheimer Europe (AE) was with the financing of the continuation of the project. DG explained that she was not involved in funding issues at all but that according to JG AE has applied to the EC for funding for the activities of the organization, including work on the EDEN and although AE is first on the reserve list, we have not yet received any funds and must simply wait for the time being. JG had also mentioned that regardless of whether we receive this funding, work on ethical issues has been included in our next work plan. Consequently, whatever happens we hope to be able to continue this important work in some way. MVS then asked about funding from the foundations but DG was not aware of the status with regard to this. MVS wondered whether lobbying might help and it was agreed that it possibly would and that JG could let us know if this was the case. MVS felt that we should not rely on EC funding and informed the group that he had already spoken to someone from the Xxxxxx Xxxxx Stiftung regarding possible funding although nothing has so far come of this. SS asked if the German Health Ministry was able to provide any funding to which MVS replied that it unfortunately was not in a position to do so. The idea of dividing up the project into sub-projects for the purposes of funding was put forward by SJ and BG. The latter pointed out that foundations generally want something concrete to fund (e.g. a workshop) and do not tend to provide structural funding. CB asked what had become of the original idea about the Internet platform. DG explained that JG had been working on this. CB felt that it was necessary to define steps and the process and that an organigramme would be very useful. He suggested that JG could perhaps do this, present it to the steering committee and then use it when approaching the foundations for funding. SS summarised and highlighted three steps: 1. agree on the assistive technology, have it approved by the steering committee and publish it 2. set up the Internet platform 3. steering committee to decide on the next issues to pursue. MVS was enthusiastic about the possibility of an Internet discussion resulting in debate across Europe which he described as added value. CB added that the paper on AT had value in itself but also for the platform where the dated could be widened. AN drew attention to the possible difficulty getting carers involved as in his experience, they are often reluctant to get involved. He added that ...