INTENSE Annual Meeting was hold on 21-23 March 2019 at Estonian University of Life Science (EMU) in Tartu. The following partners were represented: EMU, BOKU, LNU, OSENU, KKNU, IECNASU, NUM, KHU, HUST, HCMUNRE.

After welcoming speech of Prof. Kalev Sepp and Prof. Endla Reintam from EMU, Ms. Lilian Ariva delivered a presentation of Doctoral School at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Dr. Anton Shkaruba (EMU) presented an overview of the state of project activities and deliverables by the Project Coordinator.

The following part of the meeting included presentation and discussion of key project deliverables by countries and partners, as well as financial and administrative issues.

After meeting with the research staff in EMU, particularly, at the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, individual partner consultations were conducted and the next steps of the project in Ukraine, Mongolia and Vietnam were discussed.

At the end of the event, the participants visited Meenikunno Raised Bog area in the countryside of Estonia.