In the framework of the 10th IAEE European Conference that took place in Vienna (7-10 September 2009) a Special Session was organized dedicated to the two European FP7 research projects REALISEGRID and SUSPLAN. Gianluigi Migliavacca, coordinator of REALISEGRID, chaired the session. The on-going activities of the project were shown by means of three presentations:

• A general introduction to REALISEGRID: aims and activities (Migliavacca, ERSE)  Presentation

• An overview of the activities in support to the transmission planning (Fulli, EC-JRC)  Abstract  Presentation

• A presentation of the on-going scanning of transmission technologies  (Vaféas, Technofi)  Abstract  Presentation