 Thank you Professor Orgel for the nice introduction and the welcome. I would also like to welcome you here in Berlin at BAM I'm very happy that we have all made it here and It's a little bit of closing the circle. We are at a location where it started and I would like to refer to the submission of the proposal for this cost action in 2013 this was Still here at BAM where I was still here mainly employed in BAM before I then also Started to work at the Technical University of Denmark and The topic somehow came out of As one part of the PhD thesis I was writing here At BAM which I later defended then at ETH Zurich. Of course, this was only one building stone it very much goes back to the awareness of the scientific community of the methods of for quantifying the value of information and the Bayesian decision theory so With PhD thesis this was a starting point which then could be and Was further developed so that we had an approach for this cost action Yeah, well I defended at the 3rd of March 2011 the PhD thesis and And We all have experienced and know from history that ideas somehow came Or come up at Different locations people with people working independently and this was also the case here So Matthew Potsy and Amandek Reagan published four days later. Sorry for For being picky about the dates this can be also be debated, but a very similar approach for the Quantification of the value of information for structural health monitoring we have strived To improve the decision basis in a broader context for the design and operation and life in the end life cycle and charity management of infrastructures With the focus on quantifying the value of structural health monitoring using the most powerful tools we have the Bayesian preposterior decision analyzers to Yeah Assess the value of information before it is implemented Before any information strategy strategy information requirements strategy is implemented and before We implement any measures We were happy to receive the funding for this project by cost We started late 2014 we have got an extension so it's It has become a four and a half years project With a temporary extension, but also a budget extension so this action is very appreciated by cost and and We had a very critical and Yeah significant contribution here of the joint committee on structural safety especially in the starting phase and Continuously later by contributions to this topic many of the joint committee of structural safety members are also members of this cost action I Should also say contributing members of this cost action. We have formed over the last years a network comprising around hundred and thirty participants from 29 European countries researchers mainly but This is very critical for us That we also have in this network engineering consultants representatives from industrial enterprises and also representatives from infrastructure operators and authorities such a network Is difficult to handle to my experience but it has It has been a challenge, but it was also a great pleasure to work with many very very many of you Always trying to adjust to the individual working styles some Used to work in large projects some are Working primarily individually Achieving significant research results. So and then there's of course different mentalities around Europe so yeah, this was This was difficult, but it was also a pleasure to do We have anchored the network of the cost action internationally mainly with the professors on The right side marks you are from University of Newcastle Australia professor Dargang Lu Harbin Institute of Technology China Michael Todd University of California, San Diego US. These are the three we have been Working in the later phase very closely with in the beginning. We had support from James Beck Professor James Beck from California Institute of Technology US and Armand their Coragian So what did we do? This is a map of activities. We have been doing across our network we have workshop locations and we have here A training school location Cardenabia and here's another training school location talk here from last year and Yeah But a little more numbers on what we did So by the number of the dots You may have noticed the order of the workshops we had So far 16 workshops and conferences two smaller ones are to come We have organized training schools to training schools from the from The point of view now. This was too few training schools Surely there's lessons learned here Yeah, from us. We have also lessons learned so training school activities. I think it's something which really needs to be continued and even intensified we Will have or we will reach around 21 or 22 scientific missions so this was the most or the best tool for activating research Resources when some researcher went to another country to an institution to work on a specific topic there We have been organizing We have been organizing special sessions in conferences mainly in Europe, but also There will be one in in Asia We have been to Canada. This was actually the first Special session we organized It was a small session. It would maybe may have been five papers This has changed significantly Here Throughout the years and especially in 2018. We have been organizing four Special sessions all well attended with significantly more papers than five as we had in the beginning We are preparing special journal issues. There's one outs to our Actually in the process and one is in preparation for the structural safety. This is in preparation. We hope that Yeah, we will also have this one in preparation is an engineering structures Special issue focusing on the case studies and a structural health monitoring special issue with the With the anchor in the structural health monitoring Community and actually the idea here of the structure safety is that there is an anchor in the community of the structural risk and reliability analyzes community we had a production of 60 plus conference and Journal publication. This will significantly increase with the special issues. We are preparing and Yes, there's much more activities and we tried to go to document many many of our activities especially of the workshops with audio and video recording with the presentations and with workshop reports for the larger workshops so To give an introduction to the coming presentations. I Will would like to point at Achievements, which I find particularly important and the first one is that we have provided the scientific evidence of Tremendous economic life safety benefits due to the utilization of shm. We have found this in the literature review until 2001 There it was stated, but it was not quantified. We have done and we have done this In different on different levels with with the framework with Models methods tools for the quantification of the value of structural health monitoring with case studies even here with guides with a guide for scientists where we Summarize the framework. We have been developing and give also an example for the utilization of the methods and tools and Basically the main outcomes of this cost action. So you will hear much more and in much In a more comprehensive way in the next presentation throughout the day and We have I think this is the third point also very important We have prepared the industrial utilization of value of shm analyzes with the case studies a case study portfolio we have and further guides for practicing engineers and for infrastructure operators to be issued also in the Joint Committee on structural safety as part of their guidelines and documents, but there's Something even more important. I'm very proud of and For this I would like to go back to a slide from the first workshop in May 2015 in Copenhagen where I cited Henry Ford so Well in 2015 May 2015 we have come together We had the tool of keeping together But for me the most important thing is we have really worked in these four four and a half years Thank you very much