diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/SparkAtomicActionJob.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/SparkAtomicActionJob.java
index 5b038b49a..990e50abd 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/SparkAtomicActionJob.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/SparkAtomicActionJob.java
@@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 
-import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.action.AtomicAction;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileOutputFormat;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextOutputFormat;
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.MapFunction;
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.SequenceFileRDDFunctions;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Encoders;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.SaveMode;
@@ -28,16 +33,11 @@ import eu.dnetlib.dhp.actionmanager.project.csvutils.CSVProgramme;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.actionmanager.project.csvutils.CSVProject;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.HdfsSupport;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.action.AtomicAction;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.common.ModelSupport;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Programme;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Project;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.utils.DHPUtils;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile;
-import org.apache.spark.rdd.SequenceFileRDDFunctions;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
 import scala.Function1;
 import scala.Tuple2;
 import scala.runtime.BoxedUnit;
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ public class SparkAtomicActionJob {
 		final String programmePath = parser.get("programmePath");
 		log.info("programmePath {}: ", programmePath);
 
-		final String nameNode = parser.get("hdfsNameNode");
-
 		SparkConf conf = new SparkConf();
 
 		runWithSparkSession(
@@ -88,8 +86,7 @@ public class SparkAtomicActionJob {
 					spark,
 					projectPath,
 					programmePath,
-					outputPath,
-						nameNode);
+					outputPath);
 			});
 	}
 
@@ -99,37 +96,39 @@ public class SparkAtomicActionJob {
 
 	private static void getAtomicActions(SparkSession spark, String projectPatH,
 		String programmePath,
-		String outputPath,
-										 String nameNode) throws Exception{
+		String outputPath) {
 
 		Dataset<CSVProject> project = readPath(spark, projectPatH, CSVProject.class);
 		Dataset<CSVProgramme> programme = readPath(spark, programmePath, CSVProgramme.class);
 
 		project
-				.joinWith(programme, project.col("programme").equalTo(programme.col("code")), "left")
-				.map(c -> {
-					CSVProject csvProject = c._1();
-					Optional<CSVProgramme> csvProgramme = Optional.ofNullable(c._2());
-					if (csvProgramme.isPresent()) {
-						Project p = new Project();
-						p
-								.setId(
-										createOpenaireId(
-												ModelSupport.entityIdPrefix.get("project"),
-												"corda__h2020", csvProject.getId()));
-						Programme pm = new Programme();
-						pm.setCode(csvProject.getProgramme());
-						pm.setDescription(csvProgramme.get().getShortTitle());
-						p.setProgramme(Arrays.asList(pm));
-						return new AtomicAction<>(Project.class, p);
-					}
+			.joinWith(programme, project.col("programme").equalTo(programme.col("code")), "left")
+			.map(c -> {
+				CSVProject csvProject = c._1();
+				Optional<CSVProgramme> csvProgramme = Optional.ofNullable(c._2());
+				if (csvProgramme.isPresent()) {
+					Project p = new Project();
+					p
+						.setId(
+							createOpenaireId(
+								ModelSupport.entityIdPrefix.get("project"),
+								"corda__h2020", csvProject.getId()));
+					Programme pm = new Programme();
+					pm.setCode(csvProject.getProgramme());
+					pm.setDescription(csvProgramme.get().getShortTitle());
+					p.setProgramme(Arrays.asList(pm));
+					return p;
+				}
 
-					return null;
-				}, Encoders.bean(AtomicAction.class))
-				.filter(aa -> !(aa == null))
-				.toJavaRDD()
-				.mapToPair(aa->new Tuple2<>(aa.getClazz().getCanonicalName(), OBJECT_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(aa)))
-				.saveAsHadoopFile(outputPath, Text.class, Text.class, null);
+				return null;
+			}, Encoders.bean(Project.class))
+			.filter(p -> !(p == null))
+			.toJavaRDD()
+			.map(p -> new AtomicAction(Project.class, p))
+			.mapToPair(
+				aa -> new Tuple2<>(new Text(aa.getClazz().getCanonicalName()),
+					new Text(OBJECT_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(aa))))
+			.saveAsHadoopFile(outputPath, Text.class, Text.class, SequenceFileOutputFormat.class);
 
 	}