The first Progress Meeting of Stage 2 was held in Rome, Italy from the 2nd to 3rd February 2006. Hosted by Telespazio, GAF AG and the entire GSE FM service community, the objective of the meeting was to report and present the latest status of the project to the European Space Agency (ESA).

With more than 27 participants, an intensive and interesting discussion was conducted on the status of the various services. All activities were reported to be on schedule. Additional discussions were held on achievements to date which included progress on GSE FM's involvement in INSPIRE as well the design of a prototype WEB PORTAL. The Agenda and the Minutes of this meeting can be found on the Intrasite.