The LLI-441 project with title “Increasing people safety in the Baltic Sea through cross-border cooperation in the Western Lithuania and Kurzeme” and the acronym “ONLY SAFE!” was launched at the beginning of August 2020.  The quarantine restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic slightly adjusted the project activities – the first meeting was organized remotely and the meeting of the project partners together with the training was postponed to 2021.

Project consortium partners to start the project “ONLY SAFE!” held an online kick-off meeting on 29’th September 2020.

Lead by the Palanga City Municipality, project partners were given the opportunity to meet each other, familiarizing themselves with unknown faces, and marking the beginning of two years of intensive collaboration.

The main aim of the online Kick-off meeting was to meet with partners, present the project “ONLY SAFE!”, its aims, work packages, last changes in the Application Form (changes of activities, deadlines, budget).

Ingrida Borisenko, project coordinator – LP organization – presented “ONLY SAFE!” project’s work packages, last changes of them, activities, noted partners responsible for those activities, the draft version of Communication Plan, the 3 versions of Informative Posters.

It is considered that the participants of the online meeting are the members of the communication group, the list will be shared among the partners. All Partners were informed and agreed on publishing the article in local media during the Kick-off phase in the official language of Partner countries, putting information on the Partner’s websites, and presenting the Informative posters at premises.

Also, after the meeting, the draft version of the Communication Plan was revised by partners and the final version was approved.