On July 10, 2022, 2 years of project implemetation were celebrated for ”An Integrated System for the Complex Environmental Research and Monitoring in the Danube River Area, REXDAN”, SMIS code 127065, project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Program Competitiveness 2014 -2020 (POC). The anniversary was  marked by a special workshop organized at the Conference Center of Ibis Style Dunărea Hotel and in the REXDAN RI headquarters, between July 6-9, 2022.

          The activities designed to promote the project, the REXDAN RI and the results of the research carried out in this infrastructure were complemented by those included in the Workshop "Modern Approaches to Feedback between Environmental Processes and Climate Change", a workshop which offered the opportunity to a series of specialists from Romania to discuss on relevant topics related to the smart specialization field Environment and eco-technologies, the subfield Technologies for environmental management, monitoring and depollution, grouped into 2 sections: 1. Modern methods of analysis for water, soils, sediments, ecology and 2. Air, atmosphere, climate. Remote sensing, GIS, topography.

           Perceived as an interactive interdisciplinary event which brought together Romanian specialists from complementary fields such as soil and water pollution, environmental chemistry, atmospheric sciences, ecology, climatology, urban environment, this workshop proved to be very useful for understanding the feedback between environmental processes and climate changes, as well as relevant for the alignment of research in Romania to that at the European level.

        The plenary speeches and oral presentations with an interdisciplinary character revolved around key topics subsumed to the field of smart specialization Environment and eco-technologies, the subfield Technologies for environmental management, monitoring and depollution, had a highly academic approach and were based on specific theoretical and applied research. The participation of young researchers at this event was remarkable, as they demonstrated a good ability to adapt to the demands of the academic environment and to the needs of our contemporary society.

            Similarly to the other events organized in the framework of REXDAN project, the workshop represented a very good opportunity to promote REXDAN RI and to identify possible collaborations between the REXDAN team (DJUG) and the research teams of some prominent universities and research institutes in the country .

Taking into account the success of this anniversary event, a similar activity, but with the participation of international researchers, is scheduled to take place in July 2023, when 3 years of project implemetation will be celebrated at "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati.