On 9-10th April, the EUROPA team came together at the Institut Mines Télécom Atlantique in Nantes for the kick off meeting of the project. The two-day event provided an opportunity to gather the consortium and discuss the challenges across the project’s work packages (WP) as well as defining the steps for the coming months.
The meeting consisted in an introduction to remind the collaboration and explain the members of the EEAB (external expert advisory board) what were the objectives, structure and members of the EUROPA project. The members of the EEAB then had the opportunity to introduce themselves before the group composed of academics and industrials partners pursued their hybrid meeting. It was followed by dedicated seminars on the main breakthroughs that the consortium aims at tackling during the project. These initiated enthusiastic discussions and resulted in valuable inputs from the participants.
This first day was concluded by a dinner at a restaurant in downtown Nantes where fruitful exchanges on EUROPA continued.
The following day, dedicated presentations of all WPs were discussed so a clear roadmap could emerge for the next months.
