On 18th and 19th January 2016, a workshop was organized to launch the Forecast project in Montpellier, with participation by visio-conferences of the partners from Belgium, Madagascar, Central America and Central Africa.
The objective of the workshop was to get to know each-other, have some team-building, and organize and plan future work. The objectives of each working group (Work Package, WP) were discussed and clarified. MapVillage and Olympe tools were presented to the team. The organization of the teams for each study sites in Cameroon, Madagascar and Nicaragua was set, with site coordinators and a distribution in the three sites of students to be welcome in the project.