Eight months after the kick-off meeting of COACH BioEnergy all 19 project partners met in Ostrava, Czech Republic again to present the progress of the project, and to hold work package meetings to discuss current issues.

Besides the general project meeting where all work package leads presented the progress in their respective work packages also a steering committee meeting was held in course of the 2day-session of 13-14 October 2009. The steering committee presented a summary of the status report with proposals for decisions regarding changes in the time schedule, budget and tasks / responsibilities of certain project partners. Two representatives of the Joint Technical Secretariat from Vienna participated also on the SC-meeting.