The first project visit of the European Commission and the monitoring team NEEMO took place in Thallwitz on 25th and 26th July 2017. The host was the project partner Geopark Porphyrland, Steinreich in Sachsen e.V. The visit served primarily to monitor the project progress, discuss potential problems, clarify questions relating to administration, finance as well as monitoring and of course getting to know the partner regions.