The NAWAMED Project's international conference entitled “Fostering knowhow transfer and NBS implementation, building alliances and a common Med policy for non-conventional water (NCW) valorisation  in the Mediterranean region”, was organised by CERTE on 6 February 2023 at the National Library in Tunis in the frame of MEDWAYCAP & NAWAMED joint international event.

The MEDWAYCAP exhibition is a travelling Mediterranean exhibition that left Sicily to land in Tunis at the National Library, a place of knowledge and debate, then at the Gabes Youth Complex to interact, raise awareness and inspire young people in the southern region. Finally, it went back to Tunis at the City of Sciences, one of the leading centres of scientific research and education in Tunisia, to celebrate the World Water Day with water stakeholders and citizens on 19 March 2023.

University of Jordan, Partner of NAWAMED project, has launched an announcement for the appointment of a research assistant on NAWAMED project.

 The deadline for submitting applications is 3rd of April 2023. 

 For more information, please follow these links:

On March 12nd, 2023, Dr Naem Mazahrih, representative of the National Agriculture Research Center, presented the challenges facing agriculture in Jordan and the related water quality requirments, by focusing on the safe use of treated water in agriculture as one of the main solution to mitigate the impact of water scarcity in Jordan. 

IES Bernat Guinovart high school has been selected as one of the schools managed by ESMES project partner in Spain, Consorci De La Ribera (CRIB), for its commitment to sustainability and energy saving. After the energy audit that was carried out, and according to the ESMES guidelines, the intervention consisted of three different but complementary actions:

In the framework of BESTMEDGRAPE project, a round table was jointly organised in Marseille (France), by INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and the business incubator Inter-Made, for the development of synergies and for the enhancement of institutional and business capacity.

Thinking, rethinking and optimizing the relationship between energy production and storage, water management and food is becoming a challenge in the Middle East and North Africa. A region of the world where climate change will increasingly impact water resources and where temperatures will be incompatible with agriculture. In order to ensure the food security of populations, should we not stimulate innovation and cooperation in order to generalize best practices in the Mediterranean?

Here below you can find the first article produced by the WEF-CAP project partner FEMISE. 

From the 6th to the 9th of March, the city of Aqaba (Jordan) welcomed the future of organic agriculture in an unprecedented meeting of agents from across the Mediterranean. The event, organised in the framework of ORGANIC ECOSYSTEM, attracted 40 stakeholders from Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Spain and Italy, including the project partners and a variety of companies.

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), one of CEOMED partners in Spain studied the capacity of the process presented in the project to obtain fertilisers and biomethane. During their studies, they could observe that the quantity of the organic matter directly affects the final efficiency of the process. When the organic loading rate was up to 1.0 g, the process was unstable, as well as the presence of some volatile compounds resulted in an abundance and species diversity decrease of the microorganisms in charge of the digestion of the waste.

L'Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisian partner of Plastic Busters CAP organised on 21 March 2023 a synergy day with the Co-Evolve4BG and Megara Challenges of Sustainable Cities projects in the city of Ghar El Meleh - Bizerte, focused on the themes of sustainable tourism and sustainable cities.

This event was an opportunity to meet and discuss with the different stakeholders of the city of Ghar El Meleh about marine litter, its impacts on the environment and the mitigation measures proposed by Plastic Busters CAP project.