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✉️ Newsletter 3 – February 2024
✉️ Newsletter 2 – July 2023
✉️ Newsletter 1 – January 2023

✉️ Newsletter 3 – Feb. 2024

Events

  • Online workshop for the validation of MAR feasibility maps in Cyprus, 30 August 2023
  • Project mid-term meeting in Valencia, Spain, 7-8 September 2023
  • Sarah Eisenreich defended her Master’s thesis on MAR feasibility mapping in Cyprus, 27 September 2023
  • Presentation of the final MAR feasibility maps, the constellation analysis and visit to the physical models with the Water Authority of Alentejo (APA/ARH-Alentejo), 18 October 2023
  • INOWAS web-based modelling platform presented at the International Riverbank Filtration Conference in Dresden, 16-18 October 2023
  • National Civil Engineering Award 2023 for Prof. Joaquín Andreu, PI of UPV team in the AGREEMAR project, 25 October 2023
  • Meeting between INAT and the Tunisian Association of Nature and Environment Protection (ATPNE) in Korba, Tunisia, 13 November 2023
  • Validation of feasibility maps for the AGREEMAR demo region in Spain by the Júcar Basin Authority, 17 November 2023
  • AGREEMAR was represented at the PRIMA Project Day event in Sitges (Barcelona), Spain, 21 November 2023

Publications

  • Contributions to conference proceedings and four project deliverables

✉️ Newsletter 2 – July 2023

Research

  • Enhancing decision-making for managed aquifer recharge: insights from AQUATOOL models
  • Assessing the spatial feasibility of MAR implementation at four Mediterranean demo regions using a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis
  • Numerical groundwater flow modelling using MODFLOW and the web-based platform INOWAS.com

Events

  • AGREEMAR presented by the Cypriot partners at the Cyprus Info Day – PRIMA 2023 event, 9 February 2023
  • A Master student from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg conducted a three-month internship at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, February-May 2023
  • Field visit by LNEC at the MAR site of Comporta wastewater treatment plant and local modelling area, 
    10 March 2023
  • First meeting of the National Steering Committee of AGREEMAR project in Tunisia, 14 March 2023
  • AGREEMAR presented at the 16th Portuguese Water Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, 22 March 2023
  • Syrine Ghannem from Polytechnic University of Valencia conducted a one-month research stay in Tunisia, February – March 2023
  • Assessing the stakeholders’ needs and demo site requirements in Cyprus, 27-31 March 2023
  • AGREEMAR at the International Training Course on “Conjunctive Management of Surface and Groundwater in the Mediterranean”, 17-19 May 2023
  • Online meeting with Águas do Alentejo (AgdA) to explore the development of an AQUATOOL model, 30 June 2023
  • Validation workshop of the MAR feasibility maps in Tunisia, 13 July 2023
  • Validation of the MAR feasibility maps with the Water Authority of Alentejo at the Portuguese demo region, 27 July 2023

Team

  • New AGrEEMAR team members: Marcel Horovitz, Khaoula Khemiri, Keyla Alpes

Publications

  • Contributions to conference proceedings, invited talks and one project deliverable

✉️ Newsletter 1 – January 2023

Research

  • Draft strategy and plan for stakeholders’ engagement
  • New participative research methodology for mapping the geospatial feasibility of managed aquifer recharge

Events

  • Project kick-off meeting in Dresden, Germany
  • Stakeholders’ engagement workshops and needs assessment missions in Spain, Portugal and Tunisia
  • Contributions to two international conferences in Greece and Morocco

Publications

  • Publication of eight project deliverables, one peer-reviewed article, various press releases