From 16 to 20 September 2024 Sarah Ivušić, Patrik Jureša and Lidija Srnec participated in the HCLIM (Harmonie-Climate) working week held at KNMI in De Bilt, the Netherlands. During the event, we had the opportunity to meet our colleagues from HCLIM consortium in person and learned a great deal from them throughout the week. This experience was highly beneficial, as we will be running and interpreting the HCLIM numerical climate model for Croatia as part of our C3PO project.

The EMS 2024 conference took place in Barcelona from 2 to 6 September 2024. Patrik Jureša, a member of the C3PO team, delivered an oral presentation titled "Downslope windstorms in the Scandinavian mountains from a kilometer-scale regional climate model."

Patrik Jureša participated in the 5th Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms, and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Convection and Clouds at ICTP, Miramare, Italy, from 1 to 19 July 2024. As part of the summer school, there was the WCO4 conference, where he presented his work in the form of a poster titled "Supercell Storm Case in Croatia on 19 July 2023."

Our PhD candidate Patrik Jureša visited SMHI in Norrköping, Sweden, for one month to collaborate with their team on ML/AI detection of extreme precipitation events and to delve into the code of the HCLIM models. This visit provided valuable insights, connections and hands-on experience that will greatly benefit our work on the project.

On 5 February 2024, at the Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science (Zagreb) we held the kick-off meeting, bringing together a diverse team from several institutions working collaboratively on C3PO. The purpose of this meeting was to introduce the plans for the first year of the project and set the key goals to accomplish by the end of this phase. The meeting was highly productive, with many ideas and discussions that ensure we begin the project fully prepared.