The SOLE project supports the environmental sustainability also by encouraging behavioural change in people with a wide-scale awareness campaign containing simple but very relevant measures for the reduction of energy waste.

In the framework of ESMES school contest initiative, organized among 34 public schools in all the countries involved in ESMES project, the monitoring of school's energy consumption in real-life conditions through smart meters and weather stations data collection, has been essential.

The ACT GREEN campaign concentrates on suggestions on how we can save energy at workplace or at home, thanks to 10 moves which aim at changing the daily habits of people. Some of these tips benefit not only from the point of view of saving energy and the resulting reduced environmental impact, but also to improve the living conditions and health of people.

The 1st INNOMED-UP conference was held online on the 15^th February 2021, reviewing the results achieved by the project in the first year of activities since its start in 2019.

The 2nd INNOMED-UP Conference took place on Monday 27 September 2021, jointly organized by the Municipality of Tunis (Tunisia) and the Lead Beneficiary of the INNOMED-UP Project National Technical University of Athens (Greece).

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In Al-auja there were high cultivations of banana and citrus until 1998, but large fruit and vegetable cultivation required a high amount of water. When the water stopped flouring years ago, there was an agricultural crisis in the area that obliged farmers to change their cultivation. The farmers had to deal with water scarcity and with its high salinity. Since palm trees don’t need high amounts of water, they concentrated their efforts and water resources on date cultivation.