The FIESTA kick-off meeting took place in Edinburgh, Scotland on 24 and 25 January 2012 and was hosted by the Moray House School of Education in the University of Edinburgh. The meeting provided an opportunity to meet each other and build relationships within the consortium. The partners gave presentations on their specific work packages. There was a very useful and productive discussion on the upcoming research programme. Partner roles and internal management were also clarified and agreed.

The second meeting of the consortium is scheduled for 29 November 2012 in Katerini, Greece and a conference is being organised there on the 30 November 2012. The conference will present the research activities of FIESTA to date, provide attendees with practical examples of transition models in existence and use a workshops and discussion groups to help inform the network’s outcomes.
 
Several virtual subgroup meetings will take place in the interim.