GREAT (next generation Gnss REference sTAtion) is a Research and Development project financed by the European GNSS Agency under the call “Filling the gaps and emerging E-GNSS receivers technologies” (GSA/GRANT/04/2019) The purpose of the project is the development of a new generation of low-cost GNSS reference stations, which guarantee performance comparable to the ones of current geodetic grade stations but with costs (in terms of equipment, setup and maintenance) several times lower than the present standards The final goal of GREAT is the realization of infrastructures that bring the advantages of differential GNSS processing, in terms of precision and accuracy ranging from sub-meter (DGNSS technique) up to millimetre level (static differential processing), to the widest community of end-users as possible The project officially started on January 2021 and it will be completed in December 2022 GREAT Kick Off meeting was held online on January 27th, 2021. Further details will be soon available on the project website www.greatgnss.eu