 I've been involved with on this cost action mainly, let's say, thinking about how to contribute also in terms of recommendations about innovation and also based on my experience, need of operators and concessions and also based on my experience in monitoring, so it has been a pleasure to work along these four years, and I will show you mainly what has been done and hopefully with a good impact along all the working groups and all the activities. So this is a very straightforward presentation, so I represent mainly what was the initial mission of the Innovation Committee of this cost action, and then focusing on three main pillars, innovation, entrepreneurship, dissemination, that's the basics. And finally, I will conclude what I think also from the innovation point of view makes sense what are the main remarks for the end of the time frame. So what is or what has been the mission of the Innovation Committee? So in the first workshop in Copenhagen in 2015, we came up with a structured approach where the Innovation Committee will advise the steering committee in conjunction with advisory board in regard to dissemination of innovations, and we focus on three main activities, branches, let's say innovation, entrepreneurship and dissemination, and we could link all these three by a set of managerial actions in order to turn this as an efficient outcome along these four years. So this was presented in 2015 in Copenhagen, and in that same time, I also presented some ideas about it how we should tackle. So I will start first with innovation, pilot, and by the time, we presented this. So this is a repetition of the slide in 2015. And I highlight here, I will not talk point by point, but I will say that what is highlighted in green is what I believe that has been successful along these four years. There were a lot of brainstorming, we were able to bring also the perspective of infrastructure managers to this. The case study is able to formulate the problems also in the industrial perspective. We were able to set up a concept of innovation days. This is about highlighting the perspective of problems that they are currently facing. I will say that is work on progress, and I don't think that we should say that it's bad for the fact it's not in a green, but it's something that we should continue working further. And also the service is not so easy. Something that I put in red, but it's not criticized, it is a learning process about competitions along these four years in terms of the outcomes that people were able to produce, promoting some kind of prizes along the cost action. I'm not saying that we should have done, but I leave here the comment. And from this pilot, I will highlight from all these list of activities, mainly something that I think it has been very well implemented. And I think we are in the right direction in that perspective is that we had short scientific missions that were not closed by itself between universities. So we were able also to push some scientific missions to the industry side. I presented a brief graph, this is an indication. We had 18% of the short scientific missions that involved an industrial partner, but if we enlarge this to the research institutes, this would be bigger. But we still see that there is highly dominance between universities, so a lot of short scientific missions, almost 50%, was between one university and another university. I'm not saying that is bad, but in terms of pushing and involving the industrial partners, I'm happy from the innovation committee point of view and we succeeded to push this concept in practice. Also there is a call, it's still open, so you all, I think, received an announcement on 7 September last year and some reminders, some in October last year and in February, where under the scope of the industry innovation days, as we call it, project workshops. So basically, the idea is that if at this stage, your case studies or whatever you have and you believe that you have a strong potential of implementing some of what has been done here beyond the time frame of the construction, this call is only to help you to strengthen and establish this link after the end of the construction, although this, please, should be used until the end of the construction, okay? But the objective is that it helps you to go further, expanding your networking further to project opportunities, either, for example, if you apply to European funding or even, for example, if there is a company willing to fund a project, you can take advantage of this instrument for you to visit this company. I don't know, I would like also to say that I understand that we, when we talk about industry and companies, that is always sensitive information, but you don't need to put any type of sensitive information in this call, you just present what you want to do and you just present what you feel that you can present here. So it is mainly for you and also from the innovation committee point of view, we would like to show to the European Commission that we finalize this cost action but we didn't just stick to this network, we are also already pushing this further and we are leaving some seeds to the future, is mainly that. And also as an innovation, I think also, in spite of the fact we can look this as well as dissemination, but from my point of view, I think this is an innovation, this guide for operators that I presented before, I think is highly relevant and we have been discussing with some colleagues on this cost action that indeed this can be a very relevant document in a medium long run and can inspire other approaches or other versions in the future. So if you'll now push to the second pilot, the entrepreneurship, again going back to that slide that I presented in Copenhagen 2015, a lot of activities have been envisaged to explore it, again I highlight in green some of them that have been effectively implemented, highlight again this issue of the scientific missions also in industrial partners. Well, here Austin is not mandatory to be hosted, it can be an industrial partner that goes to a university, as far as it involved with an industrial partner was already a plus in my opinion. Indirectly with this approach we are exploring potential ventures and new business opportunities which I think is also important. I also think and now talking to the younger engineers, I think this is important also in these cost actions, these networking activities, is that we should promote these high qualified people with good skills to get visibility and even themselves create their own jobs and promote startups whatever basis on these mechanisms. We were also able to involve entrepreneurs, the example is the industry innovation design Lisbon which was a very interesting workshop quite different from the usual where the audience mainly were non-experts and from the industry. And from this there are some other issues that we put in yellow but again it's not a matter of saying that it's not done but perhaps it's still in progress. Something that I like proposals for funding or even different possibilities of funding can be capitalized or explored by the calls that they are hoping and representing in the previous slide so it's something that it's still it is possible until the end of the cost action improve a little bit in the performance and from all of these I highlight the industry innovation design Lisbon mainly because this was workshop the audience were designers, operators, people that were not familiarized with with this discussion and this is a teaser that is available on the cost website I will not present everything but it's we have some testimonials that were very interesting to see how the perspectives needs to go further on this. In relation to this there is another in the same call of the industry innovation there's a second type it's similar to the previous one but this is mainly a little bit let's say the objective is if you want to use the available resource of this cost action till the end of its time frame for example you can also submit a proposal if for example you want mainly to visit your company or the industrial partner to show what has been done in this cost action so as Maria Pina show here we have a lot of information available the brochures the posters the case studies if for example you believe that you see here that on this cost action I see a lot of potential with a partner that I know and I've been working with but I would like just to show to them what I've been what has been done on this cost action you could apply and just to follow what has been presented in the guidelines for presenting a proposal okay and finally the dissemination so as Maria Pina presented here from the innovation point of view it's basically try to enhance the people's perspective yes so try to to get all these perspectives together and have a better vision of the same object that we are dealing here. Again we have this proposal in 2015 in Copenhagen I will say that in terms of dissemination and I acknowledge Maria Pina it was excellent I think we have a lot of work done and things should be acknowledged in that perspective I put in yellow something but Maria has already showed a little bit but again this is something that we need a little bit more time and mainly after the time frame of the cost action perhaps one year two years five years to assess the level of dissemination that all these outputs came out and I put in red again not because I'm criticizing but this perhaps is even more ambitious and further way is how these cost action contributed to the change of paradigms yes for example what I presented before on the guide of operators it's ultimately and as Michael mentioned his comment push this mentality from a passive approach to a more proactive approach where these tools are perhaps a very useful tool for this approach for proactive yes so do not understand or interpret this red box as something that was it went wrong I'm saying that it needs more time to assess properly and that these dissemination power I will mainly highlight again some of the outcomes that I believe that the Innovation Committee helped and contributed effectively first of all is the special sessions on the two conference in Yaps last year in Nantes in 2018 and the next one in Guimanaj this year in Guimanaj the title again is for example we try to put these for an expert audience so why invest in ACJM or civil engineering infrastructures we invited the authors to at least one third of the paper write it in a way that these audience these owners and concessioners may understand what is the value of each one of these works and I present here just an indication and based on numbers that you can presented the case studies that have been submitted to Nantes so when I say first second and third stages basically first stage is the ones that either went further the second stage are the ones that represented and has a fact sheet and 27 the third stage are the ones that reach to a level that they submitted conference paper let's understanding from my point of view this 27% shows from all the case studies reach to this level at the stage on the conference paper so in terms of maturing the case studies step by step from the fact sheet to the conference paper and finally another thing that we are working together and the Innovation Committee supporting Jochen working group for on that is that we are preparing a call for a on engineering structures focusing on the case studies so again and I'm trying to also to sell these in this methodic approach is that there are people that sat with a small fact sheet then move forward to a conference paper and perhaps if you help them we can push these to the journal paper but of course this is open to everyone that wants to contribute to the call we just want to stimulate the ones that already invested their time on these two special sessions and we will be able to circulate the call for this special session and finally and I will conclude this part this was an idea that come in Cyprus during the the meeting from the Innovation Committee point of view I think and I'm not at all an expert on the value of information but from what I learned and I learned a lot from these for long these four years what I see today on these presentations from working group one to six I'm pretty sure that we have the potential to to produce a book something like quantification the value of social health information from the basics to field applications just look into the work that has been done here and even this could be have could have a high potential to contribute but I presented as a red box changing part of things I think from my point of view if we are able to succeed in getting a good special issue here with a good set of case studies I don't say that we need to cover all the type of structures whatever we are able to reach to that level of maturity I'm pretty sure that the book with this title and properly thought would be have a huge impact even for example in educational proposals having universities or operators or practice engineers I think we discussed it is in Cyprus there were people that reacted positively others not so positively that's fine but I see these as a long investment plan for those that are willing to look to this as that and finally as remarks from these also learning process and these four years I leave some remarks for what I say beyond to you 14 or two framework time frame so this I started with this in 2015 I put here the main contributions or at least I from my point of view with the bigger impact and I mentioned all of these on this presentation which I believe that I'm happy personally to have been able to help and contribute to my colleagues on this network and of course I'm suspicious because I'm the leader but from my point of view to you 14 or two can be seen as a good example to be disseminated in the future or now to implement innovation so from my but more better than me you can judge but I think there was a systematic and methodic approach to explore how in new concepts new ideas novel approaches could be implemented on top of the research issues I think also that the capitalization of the short scientific missions in research industry partners to create new and cutting-edge job opportunities I focus on these because from my point of view we should be also sensitive that young engineers that are doing their PhDs and they will get their PhD we need them not only for doing research but also challenge them to think about how you want to change the future and all this could be resulting in new type of jobs and again and link it with what I presented before pushing these four years of collaborative work and networking into a reference book in the literature Towers educational proposal what was discussed here before even about educational with Elmot and Dimitris I think we could and we have already a substantial work done to reach to this level and although more work is needed there is a high potential in the mid-long run to see effective impact in the industry sector okay as Michael said and to have a more proactive and rational asset management protocols independently of what type of structures we are talking about but for sure to achieve this level to this potential in practice we need to learn and to communicate with them mainly from their point of view also in my point of view and that's it thank you very much