The team meets up at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic on December 11 and 12, 2024, including Yogi Hale Hendlin, Brian Khumalo, L’udmila Lacková Bennett, Jamin Pelkey, Siddharth Satishchandran, and Devon Schiller, and together begin writing an MSCA-SE grant application for what will become MASKED.