The kick-off meeting of the BALANCE project took place online on Thursday the 18th of February 2021. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Geir Ellingsen, ECHO Project Officer, and was attended by representatives from all partner organizations. During the meeting Mr. Evangelos Katsaros, CERIDES Research Associate and Manager of the BALANCE project, provided an overview of the project’s activities, milestones, and main implementation considerations.
Internal kick off meeting among project partners was realized online on 25th of February, 2021. The aim was to share experience on operational issues and to discuss about optimize BALANCE implementation. Evaluation of project / exercise has also been discussed (including mainstreaming / capitalization issues). In the first part of the meeting, it was presented WPs, activities and deliverables and discussed about the time framework, responsibilities and etc.
During the meeting, each partner presented its role in project and shared information on participation to activities / exercises / real events that are linked with BALANCE project and what were the suggestions for BALANCE implementation – based on this experience. Montenegrin Ministry of the Interior elaborated in more details the scenario and their experience on past exercises / real events.