The official kick off meeting for the HARMONISE project took place during a two-day meeting in Brussels on 19 and 20 September 2022 with the participation of all 17 partner organisations.

The project puts forward a holistic approach for studying the body of knowledge required to accomplish harmonization and standardization of methodologies, codes and standards as well as the assessment of nuclear reactor components. The basis for HARMONISE activities will be the outcomes of relevant research and cooperation activities in standardization and nuclear safety considering also the lessons learnt from the stress tests performed in the EU. HARMONISE will examine issues related to qualification, standardization, verification and validation as well as licensing of fission and fusion installations, while taking into account stakeholder involvement. 

The partnership consists of sixteen members from eleven European countries and a pan-European organisation, namely: Lithuanian Energy Institute (Lithuania), Society for Plant and Reactor Safety (GRS) gGmbH (Germany), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (Finland), National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Greece), French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (France), National Radiation Protection Institute (Czech Republic), Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Belgium), “Jožef Stefan” Institute (Slovenia), Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (Belgium), State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (Ukraine),  Technologies for Nuclear Energy State Owned Company (Romania), BEL V (Belgium), AFCEN (France), Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Italy), Ansaldo Nucleare SpA (Italy), Listo BVBA (Belgium), JRC – Joint Research Centre – European Commission.