Dialogue // Euro-Mediterranean Projects Dialogue to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus Meeting

The co-existence of many different projects in the Mediterranean area coping with common and interlinked challenges in an independent way, urges to establish a common dialogue. Following the experience of the International Learning Network, this dialogue could stimulate synergies among the projects, discuss their common challenges and the synergetic possibilities in the context of the current Euro-Mediterranean dialogue on RTDI, and give them the opportunity to make recommendations to improve this Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, supporting therefore the setting of a Mediterranean Space on Research and Innovation on energy, food and energy.

By organizing this meeting MEDSPRING intends to open a discussion with a number of identified running projects having partners from the MPC about how this dialogue could be established and which results could be expected.

Agenda

First Day Jan, 21st, 2015

09h00 - 09h15
Opening session and welcome

• European Commission
• Claudio Bogliotti (MEDSPRING coordinator)
• Rafael Rodriguez (CSIC)

09h15 - 09h30
Scope of the meeting

• Claudio Bogliotti (CIHEAM Bari)

09h30- 09h45
Strengthening the Mediterranean Research Projects dialogue to enhance the food-water-energy NEXUS approach

• Rafael Rodriguez (CSIC), Mohammed Benbuida (MENESFRC)

09h45- 11h00

Overview of the projects for this meeting

11h00 — 11.30

Coffee Break

11h30- 13h30

Tour de table of the Project Coordinators:
Identification of main targets and achieved results; common objectives, constraints and needs to create synergies among Euro-MED projects

13h30- 15.00

Lunch Break

15.00 -16.30

Tour de table of the Project Coordinators (continuation)

16.30 — 16.45

The NEXUS Logical Frame (Diagram of connectivity)

• Rafael Rodriguez (CSIC)

16.45- 1730

Discussion: identification of NEXUS activities in the projects (5 minutes maximum per project)

• Facilitator: CIHEAM Bari

Second Day Jan 22nd, 2015

09h30-11h00

Wrap up from the first day and discussion to prepare a rationale for projects synergies and how MEDSPRING could support them.

11h00-11h30

Coffee Break

11h30- 13h00

Continuation of discussion

13h00-13h30

Conclusions and operative steps

13h30-14h30

Lunch Break - End of the Meeting.