The 2nd plenary meeting aimed to summarize the achievements and problems of the year passed and to set new goals for the second stage of the project. All the partners were requested to continue being actively involved in the data standardization and harmonization process which will allow later analyses of the data.

HHF involvement (coordinating centre)

Paolo Boffetta was leading the meeting and made a presentation summarizing the actions that should be taken during the next months of the project. Tina Karapetyan made a presentation updating the meeting participants on the progress of the CHANCES project from the management point of view. Sophia Brebou presented an overview of the dissemination activities took place within the first year of the project Snorri Rafnsson presented the publication policy and authorship rules draft document while encouraging partners to comment on it.