The ECO ARISE project has officially started! On 6 November 2025 representatives of the Polish project partners: Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN), the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw and UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre, met at the CBK PAN in Warsaw. The meeting focused on administrative and financial issues, the implementation schedule, project objectives and work packages. The discussions primarily focused on Work Package 1 tasks, including purchases in 2025, planning of socio-environmental research, the ethical issues proposal, the data management plan and the project's communication tools.