TOPCSP celebrated its kick-off meeting online on 10th of November, with the presence of the beneficiaries and associated partners of the network. The meeting started with a quick presentation of all the partners and the overview and objectives of the project. Then the partners had some time to discuss the organization of the network wide events. The first one will be celebrated in summer at PROMES Laboratory (France), with the presence of the fellows that will join the network. Later the planned secondments were reviewed, reminding that all the fellows will have the opportunity to have secondments in the academia and in the industry to contribute to their intersectoral training. The representatives of the different institutions that will form the supervisory board of the project were appointed and the management structure was presented. Then the coordinator of the project reminded the partners the main aspects concerning the rules for the execution of the project that were highlighted during the MSCA-DN-2021 info day, that took placed on 6th October. Finally, the partners discussed the development of the recruitment process of the doctoral candidates that is ongoing. Beneficiaries have received a great number of applications so far and interviews will start in the coming weeks.
