NAWAMED endorses the campaign “Our Future is at Hand – Let’s Move Forward Together” in Tunisia
The NAWAMED project supported again the Global Handwashing Day, with the Centre for Water Researches and Technologies, CERTE in collaboration with the public primary school Nozhet Essoltan City at Borj Cedria, on October 13, 2021.
Blue Carbon in Salt Ponds: CO2 sink or source? A MedArtSal article
Salinas as other coastal wetlands have the ability to sequester organic carbon in their biomass and in the sediment. They are known as coastal blue carbon ecosystems. Blue carbon ecosystems remove CO2 from the atmosphere by storing carbon in their living biomass through photosynthesis. A part of biomass is incorporated into the sediment as detritus, where is decomposed slowly under anaerobic conditions.
DECOST: School kids in Anabta, Palestine, learned about waste management and composting
Amongst the environmental awareness campaign in Anabta and Kufr Rumman, the DECOST project coordinator at the Polytechnical University Kadoorie (PTUK), Ruba Hanoun, visited the Anabta primary girls’ school, to follow up with the work progress of their environmental awareness activities.
Jordan: ESMES key stakeholders met for the Second National Energy Hub and engaged in a discussion on political and technical challenges in the renewable energy sector in Jordan!
The German Jordanian University (GJU), partner of the ENI CBC Med funded ‘ESMES’ project hosted the second meeting of the Jordan National Energy Hub, in Aqaba on the 3rd
STAND Up! at EU Regions Week - Fostering sustainability in the fashion and textile sector
Learn how STAND Up! project is supporting dozens of fashion/textile entrepreneurs across the Mediterranean to scale up green business models following the principles of circularity - recycling, reusing, upcycling - and sustainability with toxic-free materials.
Featuring Made in Kölors, Altoricamo, Zera Studio, and La Boutique Sociale.
This video was presented during the European Week of Regions and Cities as part of the workshop organized jointly with the Interreg ADRION and Interreg MED Programme.
NAWAMED: Debating cost feasibility and the adoption of non-conventional water resources technologies in Lebanon
Two Water Tables gathering stakeholders from Lebanon and the region were organized by the American University of Beirut, NAWAMED project partner in Lebanon, on August 11 and 12, 2021.
The meetings took place on Zoom over the course of two days and tackled two of the NAWAMED project’s central themes:
- Cost feasibility assessment of Water Demand Management and Non-Conventional Water Resources technologies in Lebanon
- Identification of challenges for promoting the adoption of Water Demand Management and Non-Conventional Water Resources technologies
GIMED: Fungi Circle, a Tunisian start-up that goes from organic waste to eatable and medicinal mushrooms
Fungi Circle is an urban farm that valorises organic waste to produce eatable and medicinal mushrooms.
MED-InA in Tunisia launches 4 calls for proposals for its zero waste strategy
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TheMedNew, a new cooperation and textile business platform powered by TEX-MED ALLIANCES
About one hundred people joined the launching event of TheMedNew Initiative, on the 5th of November in Barcelona. TheMedNew is framed in the TEX-MED ALLIANCES project, one of the projects funded by the ENI CBC Med Program of the European Union, focused on the Mediterranean strategic alliances between companies and stakeholders of the textile sector in order to improve the competitiveness through innovation, internationalization, and sustainability.
RESMYLE workshop emphasizes community participation to promote rural tourism in north of Jordan
The Mapping Touristic Sites in Bani-Kenanah Workshop, held between 14th and 28th October, aimed at increasing local community organizations’ role in promoting cultural and natural heritage sites.