The surge of cases of COVID-19 in Italy and Croatia and the consequent strict measures that Italian and Croatian National authorities started imposing since late February 2020 led to impossibility of performing some of the planned activities (especially the sampling activities within WP4 on Italian and Croatian sites, which were supposed to be carried out last spring).
The partnership was also forced to cancel live public meetings and events for 2020, turning them into online meetings.
In light of these restrictions, the partnership decided to submit a prolongation request. Relying on 6 additional months will be the only way to achieve all the project objectives.
All project partners participated to the meeting giving a project overview through the work packages and discussing the next steps of the project implementation to be taken.