Kick off meeting of the project

As highlighted in the Agenda, the kick off meeting was divided in three parts.

In the first part, Opening session, members of UBFC management, prof. Ivan Grzetic, Dean of UBFC and prof. Dragana Milic, UBFC Vice Dean for science, opened the meeting with welcome speech. Prof. Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic presented Project overview, UBFC and its Center for Molecular Food Sciences.

In the second part, Short presentation of partnering institutions and WPs, representatives of partnering institutions presented their institutions and scientific work of their groups involved in FoodEnTwin project, followed by WP leaders introducing themselves and in detail describing their packages.

The third part of the meeting, Forming of management structures, provisions of GA and CA, detailed distribution of work, financial and administrative reporting, action plan, was led by Prof. Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic. This part was dedicated to forming of management structures (approval of Advisory Board Members and Substitute Members of the Steering and Management Committees), appointment of STSE committee and procedures for attending conferences, distribution of work and project budget for the first year, financial and administrative aspects of reporting and action plan for the next year. The meeting was finished by more detailed discussion on several topics mentioned during second and third part.

The overall conclusion was that the kick-off meeting was a great success. The platform opened for researchers exchange will facilitate new collaborations and new joint projects between UBFC and partners from EU institutions. Next SC and AB meetings will take place at the end of June 2019, also in Belgrade. These meetings will be organized jointly with Metallomics summer school and the 1^st workshop enabling several AB members also to participate in the summer school and workshop as experts.