The kick-off meeting for the DEMOTEC project took place on March, 17th, 2021, between 09:00 – 16:00 GMT. Originally organised to be held in Cyprus, the event took place via teleconference, due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions. The meeting involved a total of 33 attendees, including from all institutions who are members of the consortium and was chaired by the project coordinator Lia Spyridou (CUT).

The meeting gave participants the opportunity to introduce themselves and their future work for the project, included presentations regarding the rules and procedures involved in Horizon2020 projects by the Project’s Officer Agnes Hegyvarine Nagy and Andrie Ioannou, the CUT research officer, as well as settle a number of management-related issues for the project.