The first general “pre-kickoff” consortium meeting was held online on April 24th, 2021. All Work Packages (WP) Leaders and Principal Investigators (PI) partners joined to the unofficial start of NEXUS-NESS project.
The meeting was an opportunity for all partners to get to know each other and discuss project issues and objectives in preparation for the NEXUS-NESS Kickoff Workshop, scheduled for June 2021 in the presence of PRIMA officers. Project coordinator Prof. Fernando Nardi (UNISTRAPG-WARREDOC) introduced the NEXUS-NESS project to all partners.
After a presentation round on the partners’ expertise and background, the agenda included a presentation of about 12 minutes for each WP Leader and reference partners to frame the project structure and the operational context of the planned activities. Xenia Schneider (XPRO Consulting Limited) presented WP2 “WEFE Nexus Transition through Innovation Ecosystem Approach”. Prof. Maria Cristina Rulli (Politecnico di Milano) presented the “Nexus Ness Service Deployment and WEFE Nexus management plans” under WP2 tasks. Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei presented activities related to WP5 focused on “WEFE Nexus Socio-Environmental and Economic Integrated Assessment”. Design & Data GmbH (WP6 Leader) presented the strategic plan for Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation.
Next, WP3 leader Rudy Rossetto (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) presented the Nexus Ecosystem Labs for NEXUS-NESS Services (NSS) operationalisation in Italy, Spain (under the coordination of Prof. Leonor Rodriguez Sinobas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Egypt (under the coordination of Prof. Mohammad Bahnassy, Alexandria University) and Tunisia (under the coordination of Fethi Abdelli, Institut Régions Arides de Médenine).
