{"id":1291,"date":"2026-09-16T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/results\/d1-4-kick-off-meeting-report\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:00:35","slug":"d1-4-kick-off-meeting-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/results\/d1-4-kick-off-meeting-report\/","title":{"rendered":"D1.4 \u2013 Kick-off Meeting Report: SOHO launched in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color:#9A6A0B;font-weight:600\">Deliverable D1.4 \u00b7 WP1 \u2013 Project Management and Coordination \u00b7 Kick-off Transnational Project Meeting, Milan, 26\u201327 February 2024<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:0 0 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soho-kickoff-milan-2024.jpg\" alt=\"SOHO consortium at the kick-off meeting, Politecnico di Milano, 26\u201327 February 2024\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:8px\"\/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5F6E85;margin-top:6px\">The SOHO consortium at the kick-off meeting, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 26\u201327 February 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Milan, 27 February 2024.<\/strong> The SOHO project \u2013 Smart, Optimized, High-quality and On-demand Tourism Innovative Education for Sustainable and Green Development \u2013 was officially launched at its kick-off transnational project meeting, hosted by the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano at the Bovisa Campus. Twenty-four representatives of the nine partner universities from Romania, France, Italy, Malaysia, Vietnam and Bangladesh took part, in person or online.<\/p>\n<h3>Day 1 \u2013 getting to know each other and setting the rules<\/h3>\n<p>The meeting was opened by Tudor Prisecaru, President of POLITEHNICA Bucharest, and Sonia Leva, Vice-Dean of the Department of Energy at POLIMI. After a consortium round table in which every partner presented its institution, expertise and contribution, Gabriel Dima (POLITEHNICA Bucharest) introduced the project objectives, the work-package structure, the expected outputs and the planned impact, and presented the calendar of transnational project meetings: the consortium meets in person every six months, with online operational meetings in between.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon was dedicated to <strong>WP2 \u2013 Deploying the Learning Management System and innovative curriculum design<\/strong>. Partners agreed a detailed to-do list: survey tools for the training needs analysis by mid-March 2024, data collection by mid-April, the final Training Needs Analysis report (D2.1) by 31 May 2024, the training curriculum (D2.2, led by Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2) by 31 October 2024 and the final version of the LMS (D2.3) by 30 November 2024. The administrative session covered the lump-sum funding model, reporting obligations, the project unique identifier 101129336 and the confirmation that 70 % of the EU grant had been received and distributed. The day ended with a visit of the laboratories of the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<h3>Day 2 \u2013 training materials, quality and next steps<\/h3>\n<p>On the second day POLIMI, ULL and POLITEHNICA Bucharest presented the approach for <strong>WP3 \u2013 Development of training materials<\/strong> for the three modules (smart transportation, smart sustainable accommodation and smart renewable energy), and Gabriel Dima presented the <strong>Quality and Evaluation Plan<\/strong>, underlining that a clear and agreed quality strategy is the key to high-quality outcomes. The partners then agreed the management and communication to-do list \u2013 management plan, communication plan, project logo and website by the end of March 2024 \u2013 and fixed the date of the second transnational meeting: <strong>18\u201319 July 2024 in Da Nang, Vietnam<\/strong>, hosted by The University of Danang and UTE.<\/p>\n<h3>About deliverable D1.4<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:24px\">\n<tr style=\"background:#f5f3ed\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;width:220px\"><strong>Deliverable<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\">D1.4 \u2013 Kick-off Meeting Report (agenda, attendance list and minutes)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\"><strong>Lead beneficiary<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\">National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UNSTPB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f5f3ed\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px\"><strong>Type \/ level<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\">Report \u2013 sensitive (available to the consortium and the granting authority)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\"><strong>Due date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px\">31 January 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f5f3ed\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px\"><strong>Status<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;color:#2E7D4F;font-weight:bold\">Delivered<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/results\/\">Results<\/a> page for the full list of deliverables per work package.<\/p>\n<p><em>SOHO \u2013 Erasmus+ CBHE project n\u00b0 101129336, co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deliverable D1.4 \u00b7 WP1 \u2013 Project Management and Coordination \u00b7 Kick-off Transnational Project Meeting, Milan, 26\u201327 February 2024 The SOHO consortium at the kick-off meeting, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 26\u201327 February 2024. Milan, 27 February 2024. The SOHO project \u2013 Smart, Optimized, High-quality and On-demand Tourism Innovative Education for Sustainable and Green Development \u2013 was officially launched at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1291","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sohoproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}