A highly successful virtual meeting of all the consortium partners took place on the morning of 29 October 2025. At this meeting — a combination of the regular consortium meeting and the formal General Assembly meeting to take certain decisions — all partners were able to describe excellent progress being made on all aspects of the project.
Individual project partners are currently focussing on individual parts of the research and development activity. For example, TCD and IIT are both working on parallel sensor development tracks, which will come together in the coming months. PLIO has been working on the updated designs of the anastomotic healing ring and the delivery device, based on input from partners at earlier meetings. This has also fed into development with IIT of the mapping of where the circuits and sensors will go within the device. Meanwhile, AUMC has been developing the protocols needed for the animal laboratory testing. In the background, the general management of the project has been running smoothly, with all partners contributing to the ongoing suite of mostly internal deliverables on communication and dissemination plans, data management plans and ethics approvals. All of these will provide a firm basis for future reports and outputs, some of which will ultimately be available on the project’s CORDIS page.
The next formal General Assembly meeting will not take place until the early part of 2026; follow-up meetings have already been included in the diary of all participants, including a site visit to AUMC in early November.
