Odessa National I. I. Mechnikov University (ONU), Ukraine, ONU has large experience the Eastern Europe regional demonstration: 1) the Low Dniester basin (INTAS Project “Development of New Methods to Process Information about the Quality of Water in River Basins”; EU-TACIS Project «Technical Assistance for the Lower Dniester Basin Management Planning»; EU-FP6 NitroEurope, EU-FP7 ECLAIRE and 2) the Low Danube basin (EU-TACIS Project «Lower Danube Lakes: Sustainable Restoration and Protection of Habitats and Ecosystems»). Responsible for integrated monitoring in North-Western part of the Black Sea basin, most recently the FP7 PERSEUS Project “Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research for the Southern European Seas” and UNDP-EU EMBLAS Project «Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea” and UNDP-EU EMBLAS-II Project «Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea» (2014-present). Activities include a permanent state-of-the-art research station "Petrodolinskoe" and three sites for atmospheric deposition collection and river water sampling in the Low Dniester basin, as well as the integrated monitoring station "Zmiinyi Island" located in the North-Western part of the Black Sea.
