Synergies between PRIMA projects

29 September 2022

DSWAP, Fit4Reuse, and WaterMed are organizing a webinar on the solutions and challenges for Sustainable Water Management in the Mediterranean to be held on September 29th.
Register here:

AGENDA

TIME (CET)
09h   09h05	Welcome and opening of the webinar Speaker: Attilio Toscano, University of Bologna – FIT4REUSE Project Greetings by PRIMA Speaker: Marco Orlando, PRIMA Project Officer
Projects’ support to policy-making and water planning Moderator: Miguel Angel Zamora, University of Murcia
09h10   09h25     09h40	DSWAP: Monitoring systems to support policy making and water planning Speaker: Célia Manaia, Catholic University of Portugal – DSWAP Project FIT4REUSE: Exploiting the use of non-conventional water resources ­– the analysis of the current legislative and policy frameworks Speakers: Attilio Toscano and Matteo Vittuari, University of Bologna –FIT4REUSE Project WATERMED 4.0: Decision support systems for efficient management of water resources in agriculture Speaker: Miguel Angel Zamora, University of Murcia – WATERMED 4.0 Project
09h55	Q&A
Projects’ contribution to sustainable water management in agriculture Moderator: Célia Manaia, Catholic University of Portugal
10h00               10h20                     11h00	Technological solutions Tertiary treatment of urban wastewater by solar photo Fenton: a feasible solution for small wastewater treatment plants? Speaker: Luigi Rizzo, Salerno University – DSWAP Project Intensive solutions for municipal wastewater treatment: combination of compact technologies Speaker: Francesco Fatone, Marche Polytechnic University – FIT4REUSE Project Water sustainability: assessment of  impacts and benefits of the innovative systems and technologies Mitigation of antibiotic resistance in wastewater effluent storage reservoirs Speaker: Eddie Cytryn, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – DSWAP Project The effects of non-conventional water resources on drippers, soil and crops Speaker: Rémi Declercq, Ecofilae – FIT4REUSE Project Water reuse: benefits and barriers for the agronomic sector Speaker: Burcu Yazıcı, Turkish Water Institute-SUEN – WATERMED 4.0 Project Assessment of applying hydroponics/agrivoltaic systems in water scarce areas Speaker: Brendon Bingwa (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems) – WATERMED 4.0 Project Sustainable water management: decision support tools Assessment of smart agriculture tools for efficient water and fertilizer use Speaker: Vicente Martinez Lopez (Spanish National Research Agency – CEBAS-CSIC) – WATERMED 4.0 Project Decision support framework to evaluate wastewater reuse in irrigation using secondary and tertiary water treatment modules Speaker: Aparna Chandrasekar, Technical University of Dresden – DSWAP Project Integration and modelling of water treatment solutions – the Simulation Platform Speaker: Özlem Karahan Özgün, Istanbul Technical University – FIT4REUSE Project
11h30	Q&A
11h35	Break (5’)

TIME (CET)
11h40	Round Table – Barriers to sustainable water management in agriculture Moderator: Alain Meyssonnier, Institut Mediterraneen de l’eau (IME) Participants: Adriano Battilani – Irrigants d’Europe Faycel Chenini –Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Bernd Gawlik – Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission Olcay Unver – Arizona State University
12h40	Conclusions Attilio Toscano, University of Bologna – FIT4REUSE Project Eddie Cytryn, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – DSWAP Project Miguel Angel Zamora, University of Murcia – WATERMED 4.0 Project
12h55	Closure of the event