The MATURE IP has started. The kick-off meeting has taken place at FZI in Karlsruhe, Germany, and showed engagement and interest in the project. The high level of interaction among the participants in the plenary sessions, during the breaks and the evening events have shown that we have already formed a good team part of which is on the photo taken on the last day of the meeting.

Martin Májek from the European Commission, who is the responsible project officer, took the opportunity to get a view at the persons involved in MATURE and attended the first day of the kick-off meeting and provided an overview of the rules and expectations from the side of the funding institution.

Both on the empirical, the methodological, and the technical strand of the MATURE, the respective work packages have started their activity in a well-prepared manner, raised important questions and stated challenges at the meeting that are going to be addressed in the next series of work package level meetings in Bremen, Karlsruhe, and Innsbruck.