Our new Project GAMBAS – Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services funded under the FP7 by the European Commission started officially with the kickoff meeting hosted by NES in Duisburg, Germany.The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving and automated utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users. On February 21st, the GAMBAS project had its kickoff meeting.