On the 15th of March 2021, a NEEDED kick-off meeting took place on the ZOOM platform. The main purpose of the meeting of Polish and Norwegian partners was to 1) introduce to the project assumptions our new participants, NORCE Post Doc, Agnes Weiner, and two IOPAN Ph.D. students, Dhanushka Devendra and Ngoc-Loi Nguyen; 2) and to discuss the sampling protocol for paleoceanography and aDNA analyses.