• DISCO consortium at its 2nd Progress Meeting / Review Meeting in Brussels
    DISCO consortium at its 2nd Progress Meeting / Review Meeting in Brussels
  • DISCO partners at the 2nd Progress Meeting in Brussels
    DISCO partners at the 2nd Progress Meeting in Brussels
  • DISCO partners at the 2nd Progress Meeting in Brussels
    DISCO partners at the 2nd Progress Meeting in Brussels
  • Presentation of Work Packages during the 2nd DISCO Progress Meeting
    Presentation of Work Packages during the 2nd DISCO Progress Meeting
  • DISCO Exploitation Workshop
    DISCO Exploitation Workshop
  • Presentation of DISCO results
    Presentation of DISCO results
  • Group work during the DISCO Exploitation Workshop
    Group work during the DISCO Exploitation Workshop
  • Break-out session during the DISCO Exploitation Workshop
    Break-out session during the DISCO Exploitation Workshop
  • Andrea Grisorio (EC Officer), Gerhard Sandmann (Project Reviewer), Paul Fraser (Project Coordinator) and Tomasz Calikowski (EC Officer), f.l.t.r.
    Andrea Grisorio (EC Officer), Gerhard Sandmann (Project Reviewer), Paul Fraser (Project Coordinator) and Tomasz Calikowski (EC Officer), f.l.t.r.

Successful mid-term evaluation of DISCO

2nd Progress Meeting & Review Meeting held in Brussels

11 November 2015

From 3 to 5 November 2015, two years after the launch of the DISCO project, the consortium came together for its 2nd Progress Meeting. Part of the meeting was a mid-term evaluation with the European Commission and an external project reviewer. Thanks to the hospitality of Scotland Europa, the DISCO consortium was able to hold its meeting at the Scotland House Conference Center, situated at the heart of the European Quarter in Brussels.

The first meeting day was dedicated to an internal discussion, where the academic and industry partners involved in DISCO described their individual work that has been done during the last two years. Presentations showed that already after the first half of the project a number of important tasks have been achieved by the consortium as well as several significant and interesting results have been obtained, which demonstrate an early success of the project on both the scientific and the more applied level.

In the presence of the Industry Advisor McCain Foods Ltd. further cooperation between the DISCO consortium and the multi-national company, one of the leaders in the frozen food industry, have been discussed.

Day 2 of the meeting was devoted to the project’s mid-term evaluation. The external project reviewer, Prof. Gerhard Sandmann of Goethe University Frankfurt as well as the representatives of the European Commission, Tomasz Calikowski and Andrea Grisorio, attended the meeting. As part of the evaluation process all DISCO work package leaders presented the progress, status quo and outlook in the scientific, management and dissemination work packages of the project. The evaluators were very pleased with the project’s progress: “The DISCO project shows already very interesting results. The current stage of the project offers now great potential to move to a more market side application of project outputs” concluded Prof. Sandmann at the end of the review meeting.

An Exploitation Strategy Workshop to ensuring a proper exploitation of project results was held by Eurice on the last meeting day. The workshop focused on central issues of IP management in FP7 and well as on the discussion of key exploitable results obtained from the DISCO project. “The exploitation workshop stimulated intense discussion and new avenues”, commented the project coordinator, Prof. Paul D. Fraser. Discussions between the scientists and industry representatives involved in DISCO about the exploitation of project results will continue as the project keeps running for the next two years in order to maximise DISCO project’s outputs and their impact.