The main tasks of the project were implemented:
1. A dialogue group of the state administration representatives and public activists was established.
2. The Public environmental training center was built in the premises of the district library of Kreminna (Lugansk region). The necessary equipment for trainings and public hearings was purchased and installed.
3. Public hearings "On the expediency of ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury" were held.
4. Seven public hearings on environmental impact assessment were held (total number of people present ? 300).
5. Four trainings were conducted: two of them on the topic "Implementation of international practices of environmental impact assessment" and two ? "Environmental impact assessment: from theory to practice".
6. Four seminars were held on the role and participation of communities in the environmental impact assessment procedure in three communities of Lugansk region (Bilovodsk, Krasnorichensk and Novoaidar) and in one community of Donetsk region (Siversk).
7. Information on the implementation of the project was made available to the public by placing ads on the Internet information boards.
8. Information and souvenir products were developed and manufactured (50 branded backpacks, 50 branded baseball caps, 50 branded vests).
9. Two handbooks (600 copies each) on environmental impact assessment and thematic flyer (1000 copies) were developed and published.