DESTRESS is establishing a stakeholder network to facilitate the exchange of good practices and to exploit project results. With that goal in mind, the management and dissemination team held its first side event for interested stakeholders at the EGC 2016 in Strasbourg. About 30 interested people, mostly representatives from the geothermal energy industry in Croatia, Hungary, Island, Finland, New Zealand and United States visited over lunch time. After a presentation from Ernst Huenges, a fruitful discussion arose. As we are eager to win more stakeholders in light of an upcoming midterm conference in 2017, please become involved and promote our stakeholder network. For details check out the stakeholder network section.

After the stakeholder event, the Advisory Board of DESTRESS held its kick off meeting at ES Headquarter. After the constitution and a project presentation, future expectations were addressed by the Advisory Board. The next Advisory Board conference will take place in April 2017.