On 28.06.22 and 30.06.22 Jens participated in the International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) in Brussels / Belgium. This was the first physical event since 2019. At the conference, a large number of well-known people from the community were met for the first time in a long time and a lot of discussions were held with representatives from industry, academia and administration from the EU. In addition, a workshop of the two EU projects COMPBAT and SONAR was held on Monday before the IFBF, a booth of FLORES, the network of EU redox flow battery projects was managed and a presentation on standards was given.