The 3^rd Energy IN TIME Steering Committee meeting was held at Romanian partner ICPE’s headquarters in Bucharest on the 20^th and 21^st of May. The building where the meeting was held is one of four demo sites of the Energy IN TIME project, bringing to a total of three the demo sites that have been visited by the consortium to coincide with project meetings, the previous being Faro airport in Portugal, and the Sanomatalo Building in Helsinki.

As usual, the meeting kicked off with a guided tour of the facilities and a presentation by hosts ICPE. The four storey, multi-purpose building houses both offices and laboratories, and has a number of unique features, including a photovoltaic facade. Approximately one third of the 17.400m² building will be used to demonstrate the Energy IN TIME solution.

The rest of the meeting was dedicated to working sessions for all the work packages in progress, with particular emphasis being placed on the comments and suggestions made by the Project Officer in his 18 month report.

Not all was hard work though, and hosts ICPE treated the rest of the partners to a social dinner at the Lacrimi si Sfinti (“Tears and Saints”) restaurant in Old Town Bucharest, where we got a taste, not only of the local cuisine, but also of a bit of Romanian culture and history. The owner of this emblematic restaurant is the charismatic Romanian poet, journalist and revolutionary Mircea Dienscu, who played a prominent part in the Romanian revolution of 1989 and now produces his own wines for his restaurant and occasionally drops by to entertain his guests.

After a tiring but productive two days in sunny Bucharest, the Energy IN TIME partners went their separate ways until after the summer, when the next meeting will take place in Barcelona, Spain.