Position held in working groups and science policy committees

• Cacciari C.:
  

  - Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) Time Allocation Committee: member
  - SOC for the IAU Commission 27 Variable Stars: member
  - PI of the ITAL-FLAMES Consortium (Bologna, Trieste, Cagliari and Palermo Observatories) for the FLAMES instrument
  

• Ciotti L.:
  

  - Bologna Astronomical Observatory: member of the Board
  - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Visiting Astronomer and Lecturer of Dynamical models in astrophysics (since 1997)
  

• Comastri, A.:
  

  - ESA : XMM-Newton User Group : member
  - ESA : XEUS (X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy) Astrophysics Working Group : member
  - Bologna University - teacher of the Space Physics course for the academic year 2001-2002
  

• Delpino F.E.
  

  - Comitato Scientifico di Sviluppo per i Servizi Informatici dell'Università di Bologna: member
  - Commissione per la Rete ALMAnet dell'Università di Bologna : member
  - Comitato per lo Sviluppo ed il Coordinamento della Rete della Ricerca Regionale: member
  - Network Security Group of ALMAnet - Università di Bologna: member
  - ALMAnet-G Project (the new broad band academic network): chairman
  - Progetto Immatricola and WebPay : project manager
  

• De Ruiter H.R.:
  

  - Expert evaluator of the European Union Training and Research Networks.
  - Local coordinator of the European Union network "CERES" (until August 2001)
  - Local scientific coordinator of the European Union "Information Society Technologies (IST)" programme Cosmolab (3D visualisation techniques in Astronomy) (from September 2001).
  

• Ferraro F.R.:
  

  - ST-ECF User Committee: member
  - ESO : Observing Programmes Committee (OPC): panel D1: member
  - OAB team ITAL-FLAMES Consortium :member
  - Bologna University - teacher of Stellar Evolution class for the academic year 2001-2002
  

• Fusi Pecci F.:
  

  - ESO-OPC: member at large
  - CNAA: member of the Board
  - Cagliari Astronomical Observatory: director
  - Padova Astronomical Observatory: member of the Board
  - CAISMI-TIRGO-CNR Science Committee: member
  - TNG instruments: coordinator.

• Marra M.
  

  - Member of the working group on serials among the Italian astronomy librarians

• Origlia L.:
  

  - TNG TAC member
  

• Tosi M.:
  

  - member of Local Late Galactic Evolution group at International Space Science Institute - ESA (since 1998)
  - Interstellar Pathfinder mission (NASA proposal) Associate Scientist (since 1998)
  

• Greggio L.:
  

  - External referee for TNG AOT 4 and AOT 5

• Sancisi R.:
  

  - ESO Scientific Technical Committee : member
  

• Stanghellini L.:
  

  - Affiliated to the Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department of ESA
  - Member of the Science Policies Division, Space Telescope Science Institute
  - Member of the Director's Leadership Forum (DLF), Space Telescope Science Institute
  - Head of the working group on the scientific environment (DLF)
  

• Zamorani G.:
  

  - ESO : VIRMOS Science Team : member
  - ESO: Survey Working Group : member
  - BeppoSAX: Science Steering Committee (1999 - 2002) : member
  - INAF: Comitato di Consulenza Scientifica: chairman
  - Bologna Astronomical Observatory : member of the Board
  - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory : member of the Board
  

• Zitelli V.:
  

  - TNG: Working group on site testing: member
  - Bologna University - teacher of the Theory and Techniques for imaging data analysis course for the academic year 2001-2002
  

• Zucca E.:
  

  - XLV National Meeting of SAIt: SOC member and LOC chair