On March 13-14 of this year, the second Steering Committee meeting of the project was held at the Panagia Hotel in Trabzon, Turkey. The meeting was organized by the project partner, Professor Kadir Seyhan of Trabzon Karadeniz Technical University.

The first day of the meeting dealt with the problems that arose during the first reporting period of the project, which mainly concerned procurement.

The project coordinator introduced the meeting participants to the recommendations provided by the project management body for the subsequent period.

On the second day of the meeting, the project partner organizations’ managers presented the information to be submitted for the second period report, such as:

“Sources of plastic pollution in the study area, its challenges and solutions”

Lead organization BSU

“Microplastic pollution of the Chorokhi River Delta and development of a plastic pollution monitoring scheme”

Project partner 2 Moldova PP 2 USPEE Moldova

“Aerial photography of the Lower Prut Biosphere Reserve: Impact of plastic pollution on the aquatic and terrestrial ecological environment”

Project partner PP3 KTU Turkey

“ Integrated environmental monitoring of plastic pollution in river mouths and aquatic environments”

Project partner PP4 PP4 AUTH Greece

“Central Macedonia Study of the level of plastic pollution in the Natura 2000 coastal zone”

Project partner PP5 DDNI

“Sources of plastic pollution in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve and the Lower Danube and their discharge into the Black Sea”

The meeting was attended online by Cosmin Ungureanu, Project Officer of the Gretna Programme. Ungureanu spoke to the participants of the Steering Committee meeting about the rules for submitting financial and narrative reports. He also drew attention to the need to submit an updated project budget notification.

The meeting was covered by the Trabzon Regional Television of Turkey.

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