The successful implementation of the project An Integrated system for the Complex Environmental Research and Monitoring in the area of River Danube, REXDAN, contract no. 309/10.07.2020, SMIS code 2014+: 127065, project co-financed from the European Regional Development Fund through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014-2020, whose direct beneficiary is the "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati was celebrated on Friday, December 15, 2023 , by organizing, in the Europa Hall of the Ibis Style Hotel in Galati, the project closing conference.

The main result of this project is represented by the REXDAN Research Infrastructure (RI) with its 2 main components, the research vessel and the research center dedicated to research excellence in the field of Energy, environment, climate change.

The conference benefited from the presence of special guests, representatives of partner institutions in the research activities carried out and in progress within REXDAN RI and members of the management and implementation teams of the project.

The event was opened by Prof. Dr. habil. Cătălina Iticescu, the project manager, who presented the most relevant aspects related to the writing and implementation of the project and Prof. Dr. Puiu Lucian Goergescu, Rector of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galați, who emphasized the importance of the project, at the regional and national levels as well as at the European level.

The detailed presentation of the activities implemented within the project with everything they entailed from the administrative and financial points of view and the results obtained was made by Prof. Dr. Mirela Voiculescu, special attention being paid to achieving and, in certain cases, exceeding the general and specific indicators of the project.

The second part of the conference was dedicated to the presentation of the 18 laboratories within REXDAN RI special attention being paid to the technical characteristics of the most relevant equipment purchased and used within the project and to the results obtained in each of the many targeted research fields.

The end of the conference was reserved for discussions related, on the one hand, to ensuring the sustainability of REXDAN RI by writing and consistently implementing projects and by completing the network of local specialists with international specialists, and, on the other hand, to increasing the visibility of the activities carried out and the results obtained within this infrastructure.