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The full network kick-off took place in November 2022 with the ESRs and PIs of the network. 35 SMARTHEP participants came to the University of Manchester for a week of presentations, social events, discussions, and the first full Network Assembly. 

Some highlights of the kick-off at the University of Manchester meeting have been: 

• Introductions of the ESRs and supervisors with short presentations
• The first full Network Assembly
• Social dinner at an Indian restaurant (popular cuisine in Manchester)
• A local networking session, where we invited researchers in physics, industry and society from the Greater Manchester and Liverpool area to give a talk and mingle with the ESRs. 
• A “Meet the ESRs” session for local final-year undergraduates to understand what MSCA Doctoral Networks are and how to apply, organised in collaboration with the University of Manchester Physics Society.
• A discussion of the SMARTHEP Code Of Conduct and the European Code of Researchers with input from the Diversity and Inclusion officer (Mikko Voutilainen) and CERN HR (Ingrid Haug)
• A visit to the Jodrell Bank site and the Lowell telescope, with introduction on how real-time analysis is used in radio astronomy by the local guide
• A scientific writing course by Scriptoria, where the ESRs learned how to write a scientific report in preparation for writing state-of-the-art whitepapers for triggers, machine learning and hybrid computing architectures. 

The SMARTHEP kick-off and annual meeting 2022 programme and material can be found at this link.