On March 19th, 23 ReCLEAN members and partners met in the ETH Board offices in Bern for the first ReCLEAN in-person meeting.

In addition to the ReCLEAN team members, 3 members of the Advisory Board, 1 partner and 1 representative of the Joint Initiative Management Office attended the meeting.

Helena Vallicrosa opened the meeting with a very well received seminar entitled ‘Plant elemental ecology: understanding plant nutrient flows in a global change context‘. After the seminar, A. Nenes welcomed all participants to this first ReCLEAN in-person meeting.

Updates on each work package were presented by the respective postdocs/scientists working on it. This was followed by an open discussion on possible collaborations between the different work packages.

Finally, stakeholder management and outreach activities were discussed.