D1.6 First progress report on activities and achievements of the EU-Polar Cluster

This deliverable has two parts:
• ongoing dissemination and integration activities
• organisation and delivery of the EU Polar Cluster meeting
We have worked on many tools to facilitate collaboration, internally with a document sharing and discussion site, newsletters, and externally with the website and social media and webinars etc. A summary of recent work done on these is included in sections 2 to 5.
The EU Polar Cluster meeting in Brussels in June 2022 (section 6) is the first time the EU Polar Cluster have met in person. The previous meeting of the group was the EU Arctic Cluster meeting in June 2019, where we agreed to extend the scope of the Cluster to the Antarctic EU funded projects, as well as Arctic projects.

The Cluster meetings, the subject of these deliverables, have also been backed up by a large range of other work, for example on the Cluster website www.polarcluster.eu, social media, newsletters, webinars.