The second Advisory Board (AB) meeting for the SPRING project took place on 27 January 2022. The consortium presented the achieved technical progress (see our post from November 2021) during the first half of the project, and had fruitful exchanges with the members of the AB. The AB written recommendations, which generally praise the project’s scientific advances despite the conditions (pandemic), also provide useful comments towards improving its direction and impact. Full recommendations are available from our results page.