The ECOMARINE partners met on 9 February 2022 to discuss the next steps of the project. Those entail the development of the specific courses that will form the comprehensive training programme targeted at the professionals in the four institutions in Malaysia and India who are going to be involved in seting up and operating the ECOMARINE Monitoring Labs. The finalization of the procurement of the necessary for the Labs equipment was also discussed as was the need to intensify efforts related to the outreach of the project. In fact both Andhra University and UMT have already planned events for the purpose of disseminating the project results.
