The meeting brought together representatives of IMMs, including National Human Rights Institutions and National Preventive Mechanisms, to take stock of progress in their designation and discuss practical implementation challenges. Exchanges focused on ensuring institutional independence, securing resources, setting up effective investigation processes, and preparing monitoring methodologies, visits and training. Participants shared lessons from initial testing, highlighting the need for clear mandates, specialised expertise and adequate capacity, and discussed the potential creation of a European platform to strengthen cooperation and promote consistent monitoring approaches across Member States.