DAY 1: 9 January 2025, Seville
Starting the final year of the SECRETed project, the consortium met in Seville at the beginning of 2025 on January 9-10. The 7th General Assembly meeting was held both physically and online presenting the most recent achievements and challenges.
The first day of the meeting was dedicated to technical work packages where discussions on the progress and the future activities were discussed (WP2 – Microbial Collections Screening, WP3 – Databases Integration and Industry-Driven Designs, WP4 – Update and next steps Metabolic Engineering, WP6 – Update and next steps Piloting activities, WP7 – Update and next steps on end user’s needs and WP8 – Update and next steps on sustainability assessment).
After a productive day of discussions on the SECRETed Project H2020, the team enjoyed a relaxing tour of Seville, taking in the city’s beautiful sights and rich history. The day ended with a wonderful dinner, where SECRETed team enhanced their collaboration sharing great conversations and dishes.
DAY 2: 10 January 2025, Seville
The second day of the GA meeting, the remaining work packages were discussed. An extension presentation of the activities and task of WP5 of the updates and next steps on the Lab-Scale Fermentation and Chemical Characterisation of Compounds tool place. WP9 were presented with the updates on the different actions on Dissemination, the organisation of upcoming Workshop and Final event together with the description of the next Exploitation activities. Finally, WP10/WP1 (Management and Coordination) summarised the actions on the smooth accomplishment of common activities towards project finalisation.
The project meeting ended with the Executive Board Managing Meeting of the leaders of the project addressing challenges, highlighting planning activities and setting up contingency avoiding potential risks by the end of the project duration.
