Due to the financial crisis that has been going through since 2019, Lebanese people have seen their habits and traditions forcedly changed. The Christmas season won’t be any different from the Holy Month of Ramadan when all over the country families had to economize and buy only the bare minimun to host the traditional banquets.

The trend of “Slow Travel” has become increasingly popular over recent years, however through COVID-19 it has accelerated immensely and has almost become a new norm without people even realising. Slow tourism is forecasted to continue to grow in popularity, becoming an alternative to more traditional holidays and is estimated to grow at a 10% compound annual growth rate. 

Each of the four Mediterranean countries participating in the PPI4MED project, including Italy, Jordan, Spain and Tunisia, have their national Living Labs up and running.

MEDWAYCAP participated in the exhibition organized as part of the first forum on adaptation to climate change « La Conférence du Forum National des Acteurs de l’Adaptation au Changement Climatique "FNAACC" » organized by the Ministry in charge of the environment and the German cooperation (GIZ) at the City of Science of Tunis (CST) on December 11, 2021.

The new year opens with an important green action. From tomorrow, January 14, the European SUP directive will officially enter into force in Italy, which aims to reduce the use of single-use, non-biodegradable, and non-compostable plastic.

The MENAWARA project Italian case study (located in Arborea, Sardinia) is related to the use of non-conventional water to reduce the nitrate groundwater concentration, due to agricultural and livestock farming activities. These activities involve the entire local community, and make Arborea the most important agricultural district in Sardinia and one of the main in the Mediterranean. So the pollution of the aquifer, as well as being an ecological problem, involves great costs in trying to solve the problem.

The BEEP project has been selected as one of the ten reference projects to be capitalized by the new ENI CBC MED funded project SEACAP 4 SDG. 

The coordinator of the DECOST activities in Jordan, Professor Munir Rusan from the Jordanian University of Science and Technology, explains in Jordan TV the DECOST pilot in Jordan and the main objectives of the project. 

We look forward to welcome you to the AQUACYCLE stand at the Water Energy Food NEXUS Innovation Week.

The University of Siena (Italy), the Italian Lead beneficiary  of the Plastic Busters CAP project, has launched a call for tenders to support the management of the Plastic Busters CAP project and the implementation of the policy roadmap within the same project.
The deadline for submitting applications is 25th January 2022 at 12.00 CEST.