Good practices and European projects map
This map collects best practices and projects in the field of water conservation and management, food production and renewable energies.
We welcome initiatives from civil society organisations, the private sector, research institutions and universities, and policy makers.
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Development of Hybrid Renewable Energy- RO Desalination System and Minigrids for remote and desert areas in Egypt
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Energy Country:
Egypt The main objective is the development, installation, testing and evaluation (technically and socially) of the performance of three phase Hybrid RE |
Bio-districts to boost rural areas and rural communities
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Food Country:
Italy A bio-district is a geographical area where farmers, citizens, tourist operators, asso¬ciations and public authorities enter into an agreement fo |
Technical support for olive oil producers
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Water Country:
Lebanon The initiative comprimes the development and use of an olive mill/ storing tanks/ filling machine/ equipment for different agriculture practices/ t |
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Sustainable Concepts towards a Zero Outflow Municipality – Pilot implementation Hammam El Attaouia
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Water Country:
Morocco In El Attaouia, Morocco, Zer0-M implemented a greywater treatment and a solar water heating for a public bath, or hammam. |
The Sekem Initiative
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Food Country:
Egypt The SEKEM initiative was founded to realise the vision of sustainable human development. Its mission is the development of the individual, society |
Breeding aim at production of added-value varieties of highly commercial novel table-grapes
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Food Country:
Israel The main objective of the project is to produce, by improved breeding technologies, novel high-quality and added-value varieties of seedless, out-o |
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National Observatory of Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas
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Lebanon Creation of an Observatory having the aim to help rural women in developing their own activities and enterprises. |
Satellite Monitoring of Irrigation
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Water Country:
Morocco SAMIR will be improved especially for its ability to use medium and low resolution images, more easily available and covering larger areas, and to |
Electrification with solar energy of two communities in the West Bank and participation of the electricity company in the management of the service
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Energy Country:
Palestine Palestine has a large number of remote small communities with no electricity services and the probability of connecting them with local grid in the |
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Risk Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation of Benthic Harmful Algal Blooms along Mediterranean coasts
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Water Country:
Italy The M3-HABs is a pan-Mediterranean project dealing with the proliferation of benthic marine harmful algal blooms in Mediterranean waters, with spec |
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El’Maa
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Water Country:
Tunisia The general objective of El’Maa - Integrated water management of Mediterranean phosphate mining and local agricultural systems - is to provide the |
Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with innovative Technologies
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Water Country:
Jordan The Lower Jordan Rift Valley (LJRV) is a geotectonic feature bordered by a deep-seated fault system that creates an elongated and narrow basin whic |
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for the Supply of Services in Rural Settlements of Mediterranean Partner Countries
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Energy Country:
Egypt The strategic objective of the project is to remove the knowledge barriers against the installation of Renewable Energy Systems and creation of min |
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Baltic Forum for Inventive Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management
Baltic Manure aimed to formulate common manure standards to enhance an advanced agronomically and environmentally sound manure management in the Ba |
Prediction of the Impact of Climate change and urban sprawl on Ecosystem services
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Water The project proposes an innovative platform and forecasting decision support tool (Astuce & Tic1) giving a synthesized vision of an area, measu |
Combined Solar Power and desalination Plants: Techno-Economic Potential in Mediterranean Partner Countries
The MED-CSD project has aimed to carry out feasibility studies of combined concentrated solar power and desalination plants in five countries (Cypr |
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Scienze per la DIPLOMAzia
The project aims at spreading to students and stakeholders of the Mediterranean countries the knowledge on the sustainable use of agricultural reso |
Sustainable water use securing food production in dry area of the Mediterranean region
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Food The objective is to use non conventional crops (quinoa & Amaranth) for to improve the cropping systems andy using non conventional water (S |
Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to strengthen preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa
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Water Country:
Morocco The principal aim of the DEWFORA project was to develop a framework for the provision of early warning and response to mitigate the impact of drou |
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IDEAMED-MOROCCO
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Water Country:
Morocco The Moroccan IDEAMED project has been implemented in the framework of the 4th call for the INTERRED IIIB Programme and IDEAMED Medocc project. |
IDEAMED-MOROCCO
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Water Country:
Morocco The Moroccan IDEAMED project has been implemented in the framework of the 4th call for the INTERRED IIIB Programme and IDEAMED Medocc project. |
Joint International Laboratory “Remote Sensing and Water Resources in Semi-arid Mediterranea”
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Water Country:
Morocco The TREMA laboratory conducts activities on three interrelated components: Research, Training and Development. |
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Sustainable Water Management in the City of the Future ( Integrated Project)
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Water SWITCH involved innovation in the area of sustainable urban water management often also referred to as integrated urban water management (IUWM). |
Capacity Building for Direct Water Reuse in the Mediterranean
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Water The project aims at developing the capacity of CERTE at the vision of realizing the centre as a regional and international centre of Excellence dea |
Optimal Engineering Design for Dependable Water and Power Generation in Remote Areas Using Renewable Energies and Intelligent Automation
To combat water scarcity and desertification, intensive desalination activities have to be carried out in remote arid regions. |
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Development of Genomic tools for Breeding in Cucurbitaceae
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Food Country:
Spain The project was intended to develop genomic tools for the Breeding of Cucurbitaceae species that are important crops in the Mediterranean area. |
Wetland and pike factory on the island of Utö, Stockholm Archipelago
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Water Country:
Sweden The wetland takes care of the nutrient, offering pike and perch a reproduction area and gives birds a place for food intake and overnight. |
the European Fisheries Areas Network
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Food FARNET is the community of people implementing Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). |
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Food Security Program
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Food Country:
Lebanon |
LOCAL – SATS
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Food Country:
Lebanon To promote the local development and sustainability of cities and territories in the Mediterranean Basin through the exchange of experiences and be |
WATER Development Resources Opportunity Policies for the water management in semi-arid areas
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Water Country:
Italy The pressure on water resources highlights the hydrological, social, economic and ecological inter-dependencies of rivers, lakes, aquifers and ocea |
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the International Water Research Center
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Water Country:
Cyprus The mission of the Nireas International Water Research Center is two-fold: the development of cutting-edge water technologies, and the dissemination o |
Molecular Electronics and Photonics Laboratory
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Energy Country:
Cyprus The general objectives of the Laboratory are: |
Environment and Ecology Publishing Platform
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Energy Country:
United Arab Emirates Energy, Environment and Ecology Procedia" (EEE Procedia) is a new defined complicated project including cloud modules in providing wide services for P |
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Observatoire Libano Francais de l'Environnement- Laboratoire International Associé
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Water Country:
Lebanon O-LiFE LIA is a shared research platform dedicated for environmental data analysis (biodiversity, water and environmental risk management) to help ext |
Improving National Assessment and Monitoring Capacities for Integrated Environment and Coastal Ecosystem Management
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Water Country:
Lebanon INCAM is the first Lebanon-led FP7 project, designed to strengthen the capabilities and consolidate the role of the National Council for Scientific |
Associate Research Unit on Potable Water Quality and Management
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Water Country:
Lebanon The Associated Research Unit on Potable Water Quality and Management aims at enhancing the quality of potable water sources (piped and complementary) |
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Generating a Risk and Ecological Analysis Toolkit for the Mediterranean
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Water Country:
Italy GREAT Med-”Generating a Risk and Ecological Analysis Toolkit for the Mediterranean”, is a project dealing with crucial issues of biodiversity conserva |