WE-TRANSFORM project faced the equator report period during the consortium meeting in Brussels on the 7-8th of July.

The meeting started with the Project Coordinator, Cristina Pronello (POLITO), explaining the objective of the presentations: showing what has been done so far and the direction for further development. After the WP presentations, Costanzo Mercugliano (POLITO) will explain the financial part and lastly Pedro Alfonso Pérez Losa (Project Officer) will complete the event.

The Living Hub was explained widely, showing the challenges, the responsible WPs, and the methodologies for the analysis that will be performed. Then, the Workshops were debriefed, explaining the participants, objectives, and explanation about the past three workshops and the lessons learned. Involvement from workers is seen as valuable to understand the social dialogue.

Then, the Coordinator explained in more detail the process of knowledge creation, starting from the literature review, and continuing through the eight Thematic Areas that are currently being developed by the partners. The methodology for the Thematic Areas was carefully presented, starting from the group division to the finalisation of the reports. Some of the results so far point at the social and psychological factors caused by the increased automation and digitisation in the transportation sector, together with the pressure suffered by the managers. This explains the high interest towards the Thematic Area of the Governance of Transition.

Below, you can take a look at the timeline of the day:

Table 1: Meeting agenda

Time (ECT)	Subject	Responsible
09:00	Reviewer Briefing	Reviewers and Project Officer
09:15	Project overview	Prof. Cristina Pronello (POLITO)
09:45	Presentation of WP1 – Project management	Prof. Cristina Pronello (POLITO)
10.15	Coffee break
10:30	Presentation of WP2 Knowledge creation living hub	Dr. Julie Castermans (ERTICO)
11:00	Presentation of WP3 Inventory analysis and knowledge co-creation	Prof. Amalia Polydoropoulou (UAEGEAN)
11:30	Presentation of WP4 Assessment of impacts of automation on the transport labour force	Dr. Nikolas Thomopoulos (USURREY)
11:50	Q&A	Reviewers and Project Officer
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Presentation of WP6 Dissemination and communication	Dr. Manon Potet (POLIS)
14:30	Financial issues	Dr. Costanzo Mercugliano (POLITO)
15:00	Presentation about what the Commission expect to find in the documentation. Discussion	Project Officer and all
16:30	Closing of the meeting	-

The following participants were attending:

Table 2: Attendance lists

Agency/Company	Role	Name and surname
POLITO	Project partner	Cristina Pronello; Daniel Alberto Sebastia;
ERTICO	Project partner	Julie Castermans;
UNIWA	Project partner	Yannis Tyrinopoulos;
USU	Project partner	Nikolas Thomopoulos;
FAB	Project partner	Chiara Notaro; Filippo Traviglia;
UAE	Project partner	Amalia Polydoropoulou;
POLIS	Project partner	Manon Coyne; Dzvenslava Tyslyukevych
EC	Project Officier /Adviser	Pedro Alfonso Pérez Losa
DG MOVE	Social Aspects, Passenger Rights & Equal Opportunities	Ellen Durst

This meeting was a productive highlight of the work done so far and WE-TRANSFORM achieved goals. Partners set the future mid and long-term plans and discussed minor changes in the website outlook, as well as confirmed a design of the Living Hub.