Since we are now fully starting with the second grant period, a few updates on

1) Work and Budget plan (WBP)

2) Activities

3) Proposed new leadership structure.

We have 19 Countries represented as hosts and organizers. UK, Switzerland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Austria, Italy, France, Ireland, Romania, Germany, Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal, Finland, North Macedonia, Poland,  Slovakia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Europe (i.e. online).

There will be 24 conferences, workshops, seminars, meetings organised by COST FinAI and/ or COST FinAI members until October 22.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the WBP, the activities and for taking on responsibilities.

Any other updates, thoughts, comments, please let us know.

We will organise a short update meeting in the first week of March for anyone interested.

Best regards

Joerg

1. Work and Budget Plan

This has been approved by COST and our Management Committee members. Please find it attached. Thanks to everyone that contributed. List of activities:

Month	Date	Location	Title	Type	Organizer
ongoing	until October 31, 2022	Europe	Short-Term Scientific Missions	STSM	tbd, Codruta Mare, Claudia Tarantola, Ronald Hochreiter, Enis Kayis, Jana Peliova, Eftim Zdravevski
ongoing	until October 31, 2022	Europe	Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Grant	ITC	Enis Kayis, Codruta Mare, Claudia Tarantola, Ronald Hochreiter, Jana Peliova, Eftim Zdravevski
ongoing	until October 31, 2022	Europe	Dissemination Conferences	Conference	Codruta Mare, Claudia Tarantola, Ronald Hochreiter, Enis Kayis, Jana Peliova, Eftim Zdravevski
ongoing	until October 31, 2022	Europe, online	Virtual Grants	VG	Vasile Strat
March	24.3. – 25.3.22	Berlin, Germany	ML approaches Finance and Management	Conference,WG3 meeting	Alla Petukhina, Rui Ren, Wolfgang Härdle
May	5.5. – 6.5.22	Zagreb, Croatia	Technology, Innovation and Stability	Conference	Nika Simurina, Ana Ivanisevic Hernaus
May	16.5. – 17.5.22	Naples, Italy	COST FinAI Diversity research workshop	Conference	Galena Pisoni, Alessia Paccagnini, Alessandra Tanda, Claudia Tarantola, Maria Iannario
May	19.5.22	Online	COST FinAI Conference on Transparency	Conference	Alessandra Tanda, Valerio Poti, Cuong Nguyen, Ania Zalewska, Audrius Kabasinskas, Branka Hadji Misheva, Joerg Osterrieder, Simon Trimborn, Catarina Silva
June	16.6.22	Bucharest, Romania	Economics and social sciences	Conference	Vasile Strat, Daniel Pele
July	6.7.22	Espoo, Finland	COST FinAI Transparency in Finance	Core group,WG3 meeting	Peter Schwendner, Marcus Wunsch, Joerg Osterrieder, Valerio Poti
August	22.8. – 24.8.22	Enschede, Netherlands	Workshop on Transparency in Financial Markets	Conference, Core group, WG2 meeting	Petre Lameski, Kristina Sutiene, Valerio Poti, Joerg Osterrieder
September	21.9. – 22.9.22	Coimbra, Portugal	Women in Fintech and Artificial Intelligence	Conference	Galena Pisoni, Alessia Paccagnini, Alessandra Tanda, Claudia Tarantola, Maria Iannario
October	5.10. – 7.10.22	Utrecht, Netherlands	COST FinAI Transparency in Finance	Conference, MC Meeting, Core group, WG meetings	Ronald Kleverlaan, Friedemann Polzin, Thomas Walther, Joerg Osterrieder, Peter Schwendner, Marcus Wunsch, Petre Lameski, Kristina Sutiene, Wolfgang Härdle, Alla Petukhina

2. Meetup links for activities

Grants

Short-Term Scientific Missions, until Oct 22

Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Grant, until Oct 22

Dissemination Conferences, until Oct 22

Virtual Grants, until Oct 22

Conferences, workshops, COST FinAI meetings

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3. Proposed leadership structure

There will be separate MC votes for all new positions.

All members below will also become members of the Core group.

Leadership position	Name	Country
Action Chair	Joerg Osterrieder	Switzerland
Vice Action Chair	Valerio Poti	Ireland
Grant Holder Scientific Representative	Branka Hadji Misheva	Switzerland
Science Communication Coordinator	Alessia Paccagnini	Ireland
Science Communication Co-Coordinator	Daniele Marazzina	Italy
WG1 Leader	Wolfgang Härdle	Germany
WG2 Leader	Petre Lameski	North Macedonia
WG3 Leader	Peter Schwendner	Switzerland
WG2 Co-Leader	Kristina Sutiene	Lithuania
Virtual Grant Manager	Vasile Strat	Romania
STMS Coordinator	TBD	TBD
ITC coordinator	Enis Kayis	Turkey
Grant Awarding Manager	Codruta Mare	Romania
Coordinator of Network	Audrius Kabasinkas	Lithuania
Vice-Coordinator of Network	TBD	TBD
Technical Coordinator	Ronald Hochreiter	Austria
Diversity Leader	Galena Pisoni	France
Diversity Co-Leader	Claudia Tarantola	Italy
Diversity Co-Leader	Alessandra Tandra	Italy
Diversity Co-Leader	Alessia Paccagnini	Ireland