On 21 February 2023, the 7th and final General Assembly of the DECIDO European Research Project took place in Brussels. A key topic of discussion was the organization of the Final Conference, reviewing the KPIs and remaining deliverables. On Thursday 22 February 2023, the Final Conference of the project took place and was attended by speakers and guests from all over Europe. Executives from SUSTAINABLE CITY Network presented the Greek pilot implementation for the prediction and management of power outages on the island of Halki. They also participated in the panel of speakers of the session “DECIDO for better governance: Stories from the four pilots”. On 04-06 December 2023, the 3rd Training Event of the European project "SETOFF" took place in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The three-day event was held in a hybrid format, enabling remote participation for those who could not attend in person. Representatives from the 8 partners of the project, among them associates of SUSTAINABLE CITY Network and the representative of the Civil Protection Department of the Municipality of Delta, Mr. Antonios Papadogiannis, participated in order to evaluate and finalize the training material and the certification process and to explore the subsequent monitoring of the project objectives. The 6th General Assembly of the European Research Project DECIDO was held in Zaragoza, Spain, on 21-22 November 2023. The meeting was held in a hybrid format, enabling those who could not attend in person to participate online. The assembly was attended by all project partners and all presentations concerning the review of the 2nd phase of the project experimentation were successfully carried out. In particular, there was a strong focus on the final configuration of the platform, the planning of the final deliverables and the review of the progress of the pilot applications. On 4th and 5th of July 2023, SUSTAINABLE CITY Network organized the 5th General Assembly of the European Research Project DECIDO in Halki. The assembly was held hybrid to facilitate those who could not attend in person. The purpose of the meeting was to review the progress of the project so far in all work packages, to present the DECIDO portal reconfiguration and the pilot applications during the 2nd phase of the project experimentation. The 4th General Assembly of the DECIDO project was held on 15-16 March 2023 in Vuokatti, Finland, where project partners from each partner country gathered to discuss the progress made during the first experimental phase, as well as the next stages of the project. The SCN team was among the participants and contributed significantly to the discussion on the different approaches and methodologies for the formulation of emergency policies, presenting the actions that have been carried out for the creation of a policy regarding the prediction of power outages on the island of Halki. The 1st training event of the European Project "SETOFF", for the evaluation and formulation of the project's training curriculum, took place in Kavala on 1-3 March 2023. The three-day event was attended by representatives of the Fire Service and the Police Department of Kavala, the Police Department of the Municipality of Benaquasil, Spain and representatives of Civil Protection from the municipalities-members of SUSTAINABLE CITY Network. |