 So good morning ladies and gentlemen find your seats stop talking. I Very honored to be here in front of such a well respected international audience this morning And it's a great pleasure for me to welcome you here in Berlin at our premises at BAM for the final conference of this cost action My name is Andreas Rogel. I'm head of the Department Safety of Structures here at BAM and as well coordinator of the BAM's infrastructure activities And I hope that you all have got a basic idea of BAM during the last five years I hope the Bastian has told something what we are doing and so on so I will not bother you with longer presentations about BAM and our Works and ourselves and so on but at least I want to point out one thing Being and that is the importance of this topic for us So we are a governmental research Institute under the guidance of the Ministry of economics and energy and therefore all our research on Durability and lifetime assessment of infrastructure is a key issue of our tasks Considering well-being of our society and our economy and so on so that is our main topic That's the task we should fulfill and that perfectly fits into what we have to do So I'm very happy about this project and about this group that has formed here and and what we are Have seen on results and so on so and that's very good That comprises all kinds of infrastructures so bridges traffic lines offshore wind energy plants all kind of infrastructure network So that's what we are working on So and we also have a very very long traditional structural health monitoring and condition assessment of structures And it started a long time before I was at BAM So I don't know if it was a founding point, but very early But I can personally remember when around 2007 we had BAM started our activities on risk-based inspection strategies Based on these monitoring data we got and it was closely linked to the Bastia and turns PhD thesis I think so as we know and That was followed by a lot of other topics projects like Actually now the development of development of concepts for Quantification of the value of monitoring data or the use of that value for decision analyzes all Innovative innovative topics which also led to the formation of this cost action at the end So I will not say that by having of the final conference here at BAM in Berlin 12 years later Now the circle is closed because it sounds so like the end of the story So I hope it's not I really hope that this conference is not the final point But just another step a very important step But just another step on our path to further scientific technological developments in this area and hopefully Also another step come towards common research projects Further European international activities together with you and we at BAM will work on that And we hope that we can do it all together and to keep on with other projects on this in this field Before I now give the floor to Sebastian for his initial initial presentation I wish you all a very fruitful successful conference with a lot of discussions ideas answers and as I said Hopefully a lot of new questions. Thank you