We are thrilled to announce that during the 13th and 14th of March 2024, the kick-off meeting for the EU Horizon’s GreenDIGIT project took place and hosted by the University of Amsterdam. This meeting marks the beginning of an exciting journey, towards minimizing the energy footprint of digital Research Infrastructures (RIs). GreenDIGIT brings together 4 major distributed Digital Infrastructures (EGI Foundation, SLICES-RI, SoBigData Research Infrastructure, EBRAINS) at different lifecycle stages, to tackle the challenge of environmental impact reduction with the ambition to provide solutions that are reusable across the whole spectrum of digital services on the ESFRI landscape, and play a role model.  GreenDIGIT will capture good practices and existing solutions and will develop new technologies and solutions for all aspects of the digital continuum: from service provisioning to monitoring, job scheduling, resources allocation, architecture, workload and Open Science practices, task execution, storage, and use of green energy.