The newly started European Commission LIFE project NewLIFE4Drylands addresses the challenges of monitoring the success of ecological restoration activities in European drylands using remote sensing data and models. At the project’s kick-off meeting, held on the 21st and 22nd January 2021, participants discussed how this goal could be achieved. The two project's areas of LIFE PRIMED, Palo Laziale (Italy) and Nestos (Greece) are among the six selected sites focused by the project.  The Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Nature and the Department of Environmental Biology of Sapienza University of Rome, coordinating beneficiary and associated beneficiary of LIFE PRIMED, respectively, are taking action in the project consortium.

The LIFE PRIMED's Project Coordinator, Christos Georgiadis, and the Project Manager Vito E. Cambria, were at the event to present outcomes so far achieved and how LIFE PRIMED would share good practices, expertise and data to NewLIFE4Drylands.