On 5th-6th-7th of December Grace consortium partners (IPB, Loccioni, Siemens, Sintef, UNIVPM and Whirlpool) met in Erlangen at the Siemens Corporate Technologies premises. Little more than six months are left to the conclusion of the Grace project, and the meeting has been the occasion to illustrate the current status of the activities and to plan the next activities that will bring the project to the integration phase and to the final demonstrator that will be presented on June 2013 at the Whirlpool factory.