The goal of the CROSSDEV project is to increase tourism competitiveness and attractiveness of less known destinations and rural areas in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Italy, improving skills and knowledge, contributing to build a better tourism to benefit socio-economic development and the protection of the environment and cultural heritage. Over the last months, Italian partner CoopCulture played a crucial role to achieve this goal mapping all activities, possibilities and assets of each territory involved in the project.

In AQUACYCLE’s 4^th e-Newsletter which was issued to our subscribers in July 2021, Angeliki Fotiadou, Vasilis Chatzis and Rizos-Theodoros Chadoulis, from the Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH) in Greece, proudly reported the launching of an e-training platform.

During the second NAWAMED Water Table, a national meeting organized by the University of Jordan (UJ), on June 30^th, 2021, stakeholders investigated and debated about current and emerging technologies in the fields of Water Demand Management (WDM) and Non-Conventional Water Resources (NCWR). 

On 13th July an online meeting was held between the Regional Tourism Agency of Lazio Region and BIG TC - Blue Italian Growth Technology Cluster - to set the basis of a collaboration to foster a process of internationalization with Tunisia and Maghreb.

During the first stakeholders meeting “1^st Tunisian e-Water Table” organized by the Centre for Water Researches and Technologies, CERTE, last June 21^th, 2021, National stakeholders discussed and debated about specific barriers occurring within their country/regional context and what are the solutions to address such barriers in order to facilitate the integration of non-conventional water resource (NCWR) in water demand management (WDM) practices.

The BERLIN project’s team of researchers and energy experts prepared a report on the technical solution adopted for each pilot building on the road towards increasing their self-sufficiency in terms of electric energy All pilots have followed the same methodology and are based on Photovoltaics (PVs)and a Battery

E3D-Environnement, leader of the MED-InA project, is a company specializing in supporting behavioural changes in terms of sustainable development, which helps communities to move their inhabitants towards more eco-responsibility. This experience is at the heart of the MED-InA project, through the deployment in its 3 pilot cities (Carcaixent - Spain, Irbid - Jordan, La Marsa - Tunisia) of the flagship tool of E3D-Environnement: the GD6D ("I’ve decided") support solution.

On 19th June and 13th July, Italian team of ENI CBC Med BEEP project performed the geometric architectural survey of the Palazzo del Clementino.
They used the 3D laser scanner method applying an instrument that acquires the position of millions of points through successive scans, which make and define the surface of the surrounding objects with very high speed and precision. The result of this scan is a 3D point cloud that accurately reproduces the real object. 

Two different types of laser scanners have been employed:

On the 20^th of July 2021, the Solar Energy Cluster - SOLARTYS, in collaboration with University of Seville, organized an awareness raising event at SOLARTYS headquarters in Barcelona, to lay out the innovative technologies and solutions proposed in Med-EcoSuRe that will be adopted and implemented in the pilot university buildings with the aim to im

The Royal Marine Conservation Society of Jordan (JREDS), partner of MED4EBM project, conducted a two-day training workshop " Synergy and Stakeholders Consultation for Identification of Priority Training Needs in the Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Resources". The workshop established  synergy and linkages between projects and the competent management bodies in the field of coastal and marine ecosystem resources management in Aqaba, Jordan; and identified potent