Project’s coordinator, ECOtrend, hosted the kick-off meeting in Prague. The meeting took place on 20th September 2013 and was the first official meeting involving all project partners. During the meeting the following issues were discussed:

– Project overview: structure and main aspects from the project were reviewed in order to refresh project main ideas.

– Brief introduction of project participants and their organisations.

– Administrative and financial issues: things like technical and financial reporting, IPR issues and dissemination internal policy were discussed.

– Technical issues: each WP leader presented main tasks to be carried out and discussions about initial work to be done and samples shipment were held.

– Next steps: all partners worked in developping a working plan for the future six months of the project.

The meeting was carried out smoothly and the partners drafted important conclusions about the work to be conducted during the first semester of the project.