The European HPC/Exascale Centre of Excellence in Personalised Medicine (PerMedCoE) officially started in October 2020 with the celebration of an online kick-off meeting. Our thirteen partners got together on 7 October 2020 and had the opportunity to introduce themselves, become familiar with the different areas of work of the project, and align strategies.

After the introductions and the presentation of the project work packages, break-out sessions were organised in order to start organising the different teams and to develop detailed plans and objectives for the first 6 months of the project, particularly with regard to software tools and use cases.

A final wrap up and conclusions led by Alfonso Valencia, coordinator of the project, closed the meeting.