On 11 November 2025, OurMED partners: UfZ, UNISS, TUC, UNIPR and ESIM participated in the conference “Rethinking the Future of Mediterranean Land and Water” held in Athens, an initiative led by the PRIMA project SALAM-MED in collaboration with OurMED and NATMed. The event brought together experts, PRIMA-funded projects, decision-makers and young researchers to discuss innovative strategies for tackling the challenges of Mediterranean drylands.

The Technical University of Crete team presented OurMED at the 5th MEDGU Conference, held from 10–12 November 2025 in Athens, Greece. Their work focused on the application of the WEAP model to improve water allocation practices in the Keritis River basin (Crete).

Overview — Sustainable water management sits at the heart of climate resilience, yet faces intensifying pressures: over-extraction, water-quality degradation, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic inequities. Traditional, monosectoral approaches no longer suffice. At EGU 2026, this session spotlights integrated pathways for fairer water governance from catchments to policy.

Interdisciplinary scientists from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Türkiye gathered in Magdeburg for the Mediterranean Water Management Workshop, a two-day event dedicated to tackling “The Mediterranean Paradox” — a region simultaneously facing severe water stress and standing at the forefront of water management innovation.

The OurMED Summer School on “Participatory Processes and Environmental Conflict Mediation in Social-Ecological Systems” took place this week in Arborea, Sardinia, one of the project’s demonstration sites. The event gathered project partners and participants from related initiatives such as NextGen4MED, to exchange knowledge and experiences on sustainability challenges in the Mediterranean.

On 8 September 2025, at the Giornate dell’idrologia 2025 of the Italian Hydrological Society at Politecnico di Bari, our project partner University of Parma presented the latest results of the OurMED project, funded by the PRIMA programme.