Xenia started the meeting presenting the agenda. Among the discussed issues were: status of the Deliverable 2.2., preparation of next workshops, gender dimension of the NEL activities, planned capacity building activities. In particular, Xenia invited the NEL leaders to start thinking and drafting invitations of stakeholders for workshops 2 and 3. In addition, Tommaso (UNIFI team) presented a brief update regarding the capacity building activities and organisation of webinar with prof. Gianpiero (discussed during the General Assembly).

Enrica and Bianca shared with project partners the main points to be discussed regarding gender issues, in particular Task 2.3 (integrating gender issues into NEL innovation ecosystem) and the proposed activities (questionnaires, analysis of existing data at national and local level, additional activities during the workshops to empower people in the NEL). During the discussion on the gender dimension of the NEL activities, Rudy shared that in the ITALIAN NEL there is a wall with paintings of most important women changing history: