ARCFIRE was presented to the FIRE community for the first time during the FIRE Forum meeting that took place the second week of December in Brussels. The objective of the FIRE Forum was to bring together representatives of all FIRE projects and the Experimental Platforms unit, to discuss technical issues of common interest regarding experimental facilities and (re)define experimentally-driven research to cope with the current demands for innovation. FIRE projects were invited to contribute with the proposed topics for discussion, and by means of panels and breakout sessions, activate productive discussions.