FAST third Plenary Annual Meeting was held in the beautiful building of Casa Convalescència in Barcelona in Spain, on 19^th-21^st January 2010. Thanks to Miquel Cabanas for having hosted us, it has been a very successful event.

An overview of the third year of the network, objectives, recruitment, main achievements, milestones and perspectives of the project, was presented by Danielle Graveron, coordinator of the network on Thursday 19^th of January. Each workpackage leader gave a presentation outlining the progress to date on the tasks within that particular workpackage.

In the afternoon task meetings have been arranged in order to encourage discussions and collaborations between FAST members.

Finally, a business meeting to discuss main important management points ended that first day.

Wednesday 20^st and Thursday morning 21^st were devoted to scientific presentations. Among others, FAST recruited ESRs/ERs were mainly involved in those scientific days. This gave the opportunity to all partners, specifically young researchers, to present and discuss their scientific results.

The meeting was also very successful from the social point of view. The 9 new fellows recruited within the network during the third year have been easily integrated All the participants were hosted in the same hotel, close to the meeting place, which facilitated interactions and informal discussions from breakfast to dinner. And, as several meetings have already been organized during the 3 first years of the network, all partners were happy to meet again and the exchange between people was straightforward and warm.  

Meeting agenda

Minutes of the meeting