Members of FIDES-II from 14 countries assembled in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 15-19 April 2024 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board. The meeting marked an important transition for the framework to the second triennial with the launch of four new Joint Experimental Programmes (JEEPs) The project also recently welcomed a consortium of new members from Korea and introduced discussion of a new cross-cutting activity on advanced instrumentation for irradiation experiments.