Good afternoon,

Thank you for participating to our conversation yesterday! Here is a summary. If you need to get in contact with anyone mentioned below and don't have their coordinates, please reply to this message.

If you want to review the meeting or could not make it, you can access the recording here
https://zoom.us/rec/share/3MZ3py8G3kS867r0ZTMkIktUQXuzaQZOxZp9BePWNSZZh…;
Passcode: z5m#Di02

The transcript is here
https://zoom.us/rec/sdownload/X2j-dICYbjT4lglSlZLeNSZjpydym3MPSdeem8lfO…
Passcode: z5m#Di02

Gathering interest and ideas

During the meeting we used a mural to cluster our organizations based on the topics that we extracted from the draft text of the NEB facility. You can still add your organization.
The link: https://app.mural.co/t/design9767/m/design9767/1742888561747/31652aa8f64efd8070d841b1335cb1b5a9645cb9?sender=u828361737c2f385067185465

You will also find two ideas already on the mural in form of concept notes for the areas PARTICIPATION 04 and BUSINESS 02. Please coordinate with Alessandro and Aase if you would like to contribute. They will get back to you with a proposal of dates for working sessions.

Rodrigo also offered to start a concept note on PARTICIPATION 01, please coordinate with him.

If you see you are part of a cluster and would like to lead, please notify it on the mural with your email address, so other organizations can contact you directly.

If you need a copy of the draft note on the NEB Facility, please reply to this email. 

First in-person meeting

I have prepared a poll to select a date for our in-person meeting in Brussels. The dates are before and after a parallel event to which we could participate or have been invited to: the Goteborg NEB matchmaking on April 24, the Territories in action event on April 29, ERRIN design days on May 21 and the EU Green Week 2025 on June 5.

You find the poll here https://framadate.org/gaEXoa3Mi5VyZuBS
Please let me know if you want to add dates.

A sub group will work on the topics to discuss during the in-person meeting, with two topics already emerging:

• what structure do we give to the network of Chapters? (i.e. an association?)
• what do we want to communicate to the Commission as a network? What kind of recognition can we aspire to have?

A work session on this will be organized in the next days, please coordinate with Nuria and Paola.

That's all for now, looking forward to the next steps!
Alessandro