The RECYCLES kick-off meeting was held during the 24^th and 25^th of January at the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, specifically at the Engineering School and the Exe Campus Hotel, with the presence of institutional representatives from all the different project partners. The objectives were to stablish direct contact between participants, to define the secondments plan for the following year and to discuss the strategic direction of the project for the four years duration