The meeting served as an opportunity to discuss EU initiatives in the field. Christiana Fountoulakis (Co-Author of the ELI Response to the European Commission's Public Consultation on the Initiative on the Cross-Border Protection of Vulnerable Adults) and Adrian Ward (Co-Author of the ELI Response; Project Team Member of the ELI project on the Protection of Adults in International Situations) presented previous ELI work on the protection of adults on the occasion.