The first annual meeting of OurMED was successfully held in Ifrane, Morocco, from May 21-23, 2024. This significant event brought together all project partners for a series of productive sessions and field visits. OurMED Advisory Board member Dr. Andrew Barry also participated in the meeting, sharing his thoughts and feedback about the different project activities with the team.
The OurMED project participated in the final event of the Intel-Irris PrimaProgram project, organized in Oran, Algeria, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. The event aimed to explore pathways and strategies for extending the deployment of developed smart irrigation solutions to larger areas and other projects such as OurMED demo sites.
Seifeddine Jomaa and Pier Paolo Roggero participated as key speakers at the International Congress on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Agricultural Sciences and presented OurMED project.
Prof. J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández from OurMED partner UpV participated at the Jornada técnica sobre deltas en el Mediterráneo on 07/05/2024.
On May 2, 2024, Fès witnessed a stride in environmental conservation with the successful inauguration of the first Living Lab Sebou at the Ibis Hotel. This pivotal event, hosted by Living Planet Morocco in collaboration with Tour du Valat, the Sebou Hydraulic Basin Agency, and Mapping Technologies, marked a step forward in water resource management and the conservation of wetland ecosystems in the Sebou Basin.
The purpose of the first living lab workshop (M3.1) held on the 25th of April, 2024 in Konya city centre was to foster a mutual understanding regarding the vital problem of unsustainable surface water use in the Konya Closed Basin and conduct an initial analysis of proposed solutions to the problem by the relevant stakeholders. There were 25 stakeholders in the workshop representing State Hydraulic Works, Konya Plains Project Regional Development Administration, Agricultural Chambers, District Agriculture and Forestry Offices, irrigation unions, farmer associations, NGOs and universities.
OurMED is part of the PRIMA programme supported by the European Union.