The beginning of the project implementation in September 2020, found ANTIGONE carrying out most part of -at the time- necessary tender procedures. More specifically, ANTIGONE published procurements regarding the Waste Research for the DT.1.1.1, Communication Services Expertise and Educational Services Expertise.
Publication of the procurements followed by all necessary signing of contracts on early July and all deliverables were assigned based on the project’s timeframe.
Following on 10.07.2020 the next procurement was published regarding all public events organization e.g. Α.Τ 2.8 Five Field Trips for clean- up activities in Greece, A.T. 2.7 One day awareness raising events, D .T. 3.3.1 International Conference for Zero Waste Centers in BSB, D .T. 3.3.2 Signed Platform Active Participation Agreement with the stakeholders, DC 2.1 Press Releases, D. T. 2.3.1 zero plastic in schools in Greece, D.T 2.3.3. The bottle cup art exhibition, 2.3.5 persons actively participating in the school campaign. The contract was signed on early August.
Concerning the staff selection for the 2 educators and the financial assistant the calls for the position openings on 1st September was published on 10.07.2020 and 3 new staff members were selected by end of August to be hired on 1st September. The first deliverable, i.e. D.C 1.1 Communication Plan, was available in draft version on late August.
It is worth mentioning that in all the environmental actions and awareness raising activities that took place from 23/4/2020 until 23/8/2020, the number of persons that actively participated was 17928.
The first four months of the project’s implementation passed into smooth cooperation between the partners, without any problems or deviations.