 I would like to welcome you here to the scientific university of technology in Hong Kong, on behalf of the local organizing committee, and wish every success to our students in the next two days. As you can see there, the sun should be shining now, before we kill it. No more than that. We are only about 200 meters from the sea, but it is what we intend to go away during the session. It would be an interesting case to kill us all this year. Before we go into the formal proceedings of the days, I would like to just say a few words about our university, and our interest here to relate to the proceedings of the students. The university is a city university, it is in the central part of the eastern city, and you can see in the figure on the field circles are various buildings of the university. It is not very unnecessary to consider. But you can also see, you walk around, within about 1,500 years, some of the more traditional buildings, that have been built in the city, that have been donated by the municipality to the university, and they use the four minus the cent house. It was fortunate to have one, which is when I was vice president of my academic affairs for four years. The lower left building is the library, and the one on the right-hand side is one of each major theater conferences that are not here at the university. We are here, and you can see in the right corner, but we don't have time to go to work at the university, CFC is a young university, it has been in operation for 11 years. In this short history operation, we can see that the university is doing well in terms of academic output for us, and it is being run consistently higher in the central part of the university years. The recent rankings of the times of higher education lists are ranked in the top of 3,315 universities in the whole world, and we are suppressing them in the scientific degrees, which is an incredible achievement for such a young university, because they are experiencing a lot of these problems, they are all in that direction. So, back to the subject area of the coursework, which is focusing on the ideal structures that we are monitoring. This is an area which is very central to our own research interest here, and activities, and I just want to say to you guys about the things we have been doing that relate to this area and some of the new initiatives that we are trying to work on. Some of you may remember a couple of years ago I was invited to talk about the Smart Center at the UDMTM program, which was focusing again on the use of monitoring combined with any other techniques to be able to develop smart project methods for design and technical management of infrastructure. Of course, there are many other related activities, and recently we had a study at a university, in our group research group, called Smart and Eye, where the focus is on smart solutions to sustainable marine and ocean infrastructure and environment systems, and all of the things that we are going to talk about here in the next couple of days, to relate to some of the main things that we have in this group. Our aim is to promote and develop our own mass research application and also to facilitate the industry of the same effective critical infrastructure through smart, proactive and integrated solutions and commercial technologies and so on. And you will see some of the key focus areas that we are working on. We are working on a range of techniques, and we recognize a lot of the techniques that we will discuss related aspects during the workshop, ranging from monitoring sensors in the process, in the analysis, and so on, which find the application in design, designization and technical management, life cycle management, right to the policy, the three key areas we are focusing on in this Smart and Eye group are energy, infrastructure and safety and environment. Energy is an important area in the whole industry, but there is a particular interest of us here in Cyprus now to the energy-oriented gas industry in Cyprus generation, so this is one of our key focus areas. But we also have to promote technology transfer, which also integrate policy approaches across the three key areas. And our role of the nation is really to bring together the industry and government and allow the industry to work in some kind of disciplinary and natural framework of operations. And here we will see then the colleagues who are part of the group, and some of them are here today, and you can have a chance to meet them. We have 11 colleagues who come from different schools, so we bring their process in the area. We have industry developers with a long experience in the industry, who are activities and also for research development. Just a quick license of the key project areas that we can work on that we are working on. One is the sponsor of my interview in 2004. We have a joint industry program on safety and protection of offshore and gas operations. We have also established the original method of scaling orders in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where collaboration is safety and management protection of ferry and gas operations. We have a project that deals with more legal extreme management ways, sea traffic management, legalized identification techniques for workings, and drilling projects for workings. We have energy, other access codes where I can start to check the management from other countries. As I mentioned, the energy area of energy, the energy industry and the offshore and gas operations are also available, particularly in just one. Some of the current activities are focusing on aspects of the range, whether they are marketing analysis or experimental aspects are also available to us. And monitoring, which is the value of safety and protection of other legal techniques. We are in the process of establishing some new important projects in order to share with you. And the other very important activity that we started recently, we are working on a phase one study for the creation of a national center of excellence where the force will be on energy and the again, if you mind the main motivation or the reason for working in that direction is the energy and well-informed energy. We expect that in this project as it proceeds there will be again a strong focus on the smart infrastructure monitoring as well. So there will be areas of interest to be improved. And we believe that the key element of success is the model which is to bring an academia industry government together. We have the support from the state and government for progressing this and establishing this center. And also we are working towards establishing a national international framework of operators from different state-owned schools in order to be more effective in our approach and our work. And in this context we have strong ideas of collaboration with yourselves in the areas of our interest of this structure. And I hope I can give you some taste of where we are, the university and what are the key areas of interest that are all in our the interest of this structure and which also have the interest of future collaboration. And with that I would like to close and we share this with you today. And I would like to thank Sebastian for being more formal business today.