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The first meeting between project partners and stakeholders (policy makers and representatives of national and regional authorities) from all participating countries took place on 18 October in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stakeholders participation in BalkanROAD is a strong project advantage that will bring its results close to policy makers and authorities. During the 1st meeting, the participants discussed the outputs of the GAP analysis regarding the question “Which are the obstacles that prevent agribusinesses to adopt alternative and environment friendly practices?” and defined solutions and proposals to be considered in the future project actions. Stakeholders critically assessed the available information and suggested solutions and…

The team of the Benaki Phytopathological Institute and the coordinator of BalkanROAD visited the pilot area of MOPF. During the visit, both teams cooperated and defined the key steps of the peppers processing procedure to be considered in the ROAD tool and also discussed about processes and procedures that could be improved in order to reduce the environmental footprint of the final marketable product of MOPF.

The partners of BalkanROAD project met on 12 October 2018 in North Macedonia. A fruitful cooperation and discussions regarding past and future activities of the project took place. For the next six months and until the 3rd project meeting, BalkanROAD consortium is focusing on developing the ROAD tool (the software) and on the wide communication of the project.