The CIRCLE project has had a very eventful first year with a number of planned activities having taken place. As mentioned above, the aim of CIRCLE is to harmonise the Molecular Communications community within Europe and provide a structured research agenda to accelerate convergence and advance breakthrough research within the area. The main areas of activity focused on setting up the appropriate infrastructure support tools for the Molecular Communications community, including a code repository, a discussion forum along with a website and mailing list (WP2). With the appropriate infrastructure in place, various services have been offered to the community to promote exchange of knowledge and best practice such as establishment of a staff exchange program, issuing of news letters to the community (WP3). The consortium have developed a number of concrete outputs in this regard for the community, such as a review of all known Molecular Communications simulation tools, a formal specification of a Molecular Communications Markup Language, a thorough review of the active Molecular Communications research community and a taxonomy of molecular communications terms and topics (WP4). CIRCLE has also organised the 1st Workshop on Molecular Communications in Cambridge UK on 11th, 12th April 2015. This workshop saw over 40 attendees from academia and industry participate in discussions related to the CIRCLE objectives, being young researchers in Molecular Communications, a future vision and research roadmap for Molecular Communications and also how to stimulate industry engagement with molecular communications (WP1). Finally a broad set of dissemination, communication and awareness activities have taken place to highlight the objectives of CIRCLE to the wider stakeholder community through invited lectures, PhD school courses, publications, news letters, radio interviews, newspaper press releases and conference sponsorship.
