The 88^th meeting of the EPS-NPD board took place at the Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Irène Joliot Curie in Orsay, France, on the 28^th-29^th October 2024. On the morning of the 28^th, the new laboratory founded in 2020 by the fusion of 5 pre-existing laboratories, was presented by the director Achille Stocchi.

This introductory talk was then followed by presentations of the activities of the Nuclear Physics, High Energy, Energy and Environment and Health Departments of the laboratory. There were lively discussions on all topics of interest to the NPD, in particular the opportunities for internships and doctoral studies, nuclear energy and health science applications. Unfortunately, the planned visit to the ALTO facility, which hosts a 15 MV tandem and a linear electron accelerator for producing radioactive ion beams by photofission, could not take place as it had recently suffered from major flooding.

The members of the board then went to visit the plaque that was installed in October 2023 and which recognizes  the IPNO as an EPS historic site, as illustrated in the picture.

On the afternoon of the 28^th, the board reviewed the reports on the recently-held EPS-NPD conferences: the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics XI Conference and the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference 2024, during which  the Applied Nuclear Physics prize was awarded to Alberto Del Guerra and Laura Harkness-Brennan. The status of the organization of the next European Nuclear Physics Conference that will be hosted in Caen in 2025 was also discussed. The board then proceeded to the evaluation of the short-listed PhD theses and selected the best three.  The whole board recognized the high level of the submitted theses.

On the morning of the 29^th, various other topics were covered and debated at length, namely the nominations for the next EPS prizes and EPS historical site as well as the election of the next NPD chair and scientific secretary.

Araceli Lopez-Martens