Over the first week of February a progres meeting and scientific workshop were held at the Hebrew University Mt Scopus campus, Jerusalem. The program progress meeting included  future planning  and some touring of Jerusalem.

An academic workshop was held on the topic "Modeling Urban Resilience in the Aftermath of the Haifa Fire" and attended by 25 researchers from a variety of fields inlcuding, geography, urban planning, civil engineering, public health and environmental studies.