Organized in the Conference Center of Hotel Ibis Style Dunărea Galați, the launching conference of the project An Integrated System for the Complex Environmental Research and Monitoring in the Danube River Area, REDXAN, SMIS code 2014+: 127065 brought together members of the management and implementation teams and representatives of relevant European and national institutions in the field.

          The official opening, made by Prof. Dr. Eng. Puiu Lucian Georgescu, Rector of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galați, was followed by the presentations of Prof. Dr. habil. Cătălina Iticescu, project manager, Prof. Dr. habil Nicoleta Mișu and Prof. Dr. Mirela Voiculescu, members of the management team. The first section of the conference ended with the presentation of Prof. Dr. Eng. Leonard Domnișoru regarding the technical characteristics of the research ship REXDAN.

       The event continued with the presentations of CS I Dr. Doina Nicolae and CS I Dr. Bogdan Antonescu, from INOE (National Research-Development Institute for Optoelectronics) and of Lect. Dr. Marius Mihai Cazacu from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași regarding the ACTRIS and ACTRIS-RO infrastructures, the MARS cloud monitoring station in Bucharest and RAPID-e, the first equipment used for studying the atmosphere.

          The launching conference of the project An Integrated System for the Complex Environmental Research and Monitoring in the Danube River Area, REDXAN ended with the presentations of the Fix Research Centre laboratories made by members of the implementation team in three parallel sections: Section 1. Physical-chemical analyses, Section 2. Biodiversity, genetics and bathymetry and Section 3. Atmosphere and IT and with discussions and debates aimed at outlining the activities scheduled in the future stages of the project.