In January 2008, the Programming model Institute of CoreGRID held a plenary meeting in Paris. The meeting was aimed at discussing progress achieved on the Programming model Institute research themes. During the meeting – most of the Institute partners were attending – different researchers presented their on-going work related to the Institute research themes. The meeting was also notable in that it was the first technical meeting where the new Associate partners of CoreGRID (those involved in the Programming model Institute activities) participated actively. This report hosts a synthetic version of the work presented in the Paris meeting. The different contributions cover the most important research themes of the Institute. In particular, four contributions are related to autonomic features in GCM (the ones presented in Sec. 4, 6, 7 and 8), and three deal with workflow/component related themes (Sec. 3, 9 and 10). Overall, all the contributions are more or less directly related to GCM and, more generally, to component programming models.