On 13 December 2018, a training event, which included workshops by Prof. Hans-Peter Nachtnebel (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria), Prof. Kalev Sepp (Estonian University of Life Sciences) and Prof. Anatolii Polovyi (OSENU), was organized in Lviv for PhD students and academic staff from partner institutions, at the Institute for the Carpathians’ Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

A Steering Group meeting was held on 14 December 2018. The progress in implementation of the work packages 1-6, financial and administrative issues, as well as the schedule for the remaining project period were discussed.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the Estonian University of Life Sciences (Kalev Sepp, Henri Järv), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria (Hans-Peter Nachtnebel), the Institute for the Carpathians’ Ecology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Mykola Kozlovskyi, Iryna Shpakivska, Volodymyr Rozhak), Odessa State Environmental University (Anatolii Polovyi, Oleg Shabliy) and Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University (Hanna Titenko, Alla Nekos, Kateryna Utkina, Olena Chernikova).