 has provided us with low cost and easily deployable solutions for gaining a multiplicity of information for large-scale structural systems. The appropriate processing of this information may guide us into the optimal management of these systems from cradle to grave. Innovation is not a concept as a way of thinking. By bringing together into the discussion of the part of information, the academia and the industrial partners will be definitely the best approach for the next generation of ASGEN database technologies. This cost action 14.02 is a fantastic opportunity. We bring here together in a very normal setting theoretical frameworks and applied in the ADA and are pushing the boundaries of the general body of knowledge. This provides the facilitation of leading industrial innovations and it significantly supports sustainable and resilient societal development. This action is worthwhile for all. Action is organized through several working groups. We have the first one that sets up a theoretical framework. We have the second one that is trying to reveal the link between a certain performance indicators and certain type of structural performance. We have a group that is revealing the best case studies. We have a group that is dedicated to dissemination, to different target groups, let's say people from industry, stakeholders, researchers, practical engineers. We have innovation committee. They help us with some advice for future progress and we have external advisors from abroad from outside of Europe who share their knowledge with us. Research areas that are working structural health monitoring and I'm attending this workshop because I'm particularly interested in what European researchers are doing under this cost action plan where they're establishing ways of quantifying the value of information coming from structural health monitoring systems and as far as I know there is no organized activity on this challenging topic in the United States. So I'm looking forward to seeing what is the outcome of the research over the four years of the project and hopefully beyond. Most important objectives of this cost action is the development and demonstration of a case study portfolio. This is the scope of working group 4 where a portfolio of practical case studies is developed in order to demonstrate the applicability of the value of information concepts. This will enable us to see the potential, the practical potential of these methods but it will also discover and expose problems and issues that are related to the practical application. So it will for the management or for the people managing infrastructural systems it will be very educative to see these case studies and it will provoke the further application of these methods. The exchange program is meant for both experienced and early stage researchers to visit another of the participating institutions in the same action and announce their own network of collaborations but actually this program is not just about research mobility it's much more it's a mentoring program and it's very well suited to early career researchers to exchange knowledge, get more mentoring and enhance their professional development and build long-term collaborations. Scientific networking project cost action tier 142 is about quantifying the value of structural health monitoring. We know that structural health monitoring can have tremendous benefits but we may also end up in a situation that we have a lot of data which are not all really relevant so that's why we need to know the value of the structural health monitoring before only then we are able to implement optimized structural health monitoring we are able to reduce the costs and the risks of the structural charity management and only then we are able to impact industry and society. It's also an opportunity to meet to share knowledge and to know each other working on a research project we meet during workshops or brainstorming sessions in smaller groups and we're always glad to welcome new participants that can join us throughout the entire duration of the action and this is the scientific networking but links between people grow and improve also during social moments so we always try to have the chance to be together at the shared dinner or during late afternoon jogging but all this networking what for? Well the network makes us stronger allows us to face new and wider research challenges and as a byproduct it increases the european research and innovation capacity and that's why the cost actions are really great research projects.