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PartnersDescriptionThe project consortium contains five research institutions, IAV, ENIT, TTZ+TUB and IAMB which are located, respectively, in Morocco, Tunisia, Germany and Italy, and one International Organisation (ICARDA). These partners complement each other by representing all the expertise which is necessary to accomplish the CYCLER-SUPPORT study : greenhouse architecture, water - and wastewater recycling, irrigation and nutrition science, crop science and crop markets, thermodynamics, horticulture science, environmental impact assessment, etc. Especially two of the partners, namely IAMB and ICARDA, manage different strong international MED-networks related to water problems in the Mediterranean dry areas, including research organisations, water authorities, greenhouse producers, agriculturists, politicians, NGOs, and others. Based on these networks and beyond, they will involve in the project relevant stakeholders by disseminating generated results and by inviting them to the final By a close co-operation, mutual know-how exchange and the common development of socioeconomical and environmental sustainable implementation strategies the partners intent to develop a win-win situation for both, the European and for the MPC crop markets, and based on water-cycling greenhouse architecture.
The Berlin University of Technology (TUB) takes part with the institute GtE - "building technology and design". Its expertise is in energy efficient design for buildings as well as building technology in teaching and research. Topics of high relevance are "renewable energies", "water-use and recycling", and "ecological circles in buildings and their environments". TUB is the project leader (administration and scientific project management) of the EU FP5 project "A novel solar humid-air-collector system for combined water treatment, space-cooling and - heating (WATERGY)". It provides courses and workshops in the field of ecological building design, as for instance the course "University of sustainable development" in Petzow, Germany, 2003, or the International workshop "Sustainable Habitat Design", where GtE participated in collaboration with VSF at Ahmedabad, India.
The Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV) is the major Moroccan institution of higher education on Agriculture and Natural Resources. It has been created in 1966 and has been assigned three main missions : Education, Research and Contribution to Development (Outreach). The scientific staff of IAV is composed of 343 faculty members with more than 200 graduate professors internationally recognized for their expertise and scientific knowledge. IAV does have an important scientific infrastructure : 30 departments, about 60 laboratories, three experiment stations (in the Gharb, Tadla and Souss). Two campuses are operational : the major one is located in Rabat and does provide the training in the fields of agronomy, veterinary medicine, topography, food science and nutrition, agricultural engineering and fisheries, the second on of Agadir is mainly oriented toward horticulture and landscape architecture. IAV does contribute to the international science dissemination through the organization of international seminars, conferences and workshops. The overall objective of IAV is to serve a sustainable rural and agricultural development of Morocco and even in Africa. This mission is ccomplished
through a number of actions like continuing education, technical support and services, or outreach and transfer of know how and technologies. IAV does have a wide range of international collaborations with higher education and research institutions in Europe (France, Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, etc.), in the US (Minnesota, Michigan, California, Utah, Colorado, Texas, etc.) and in Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania,
The Technology Transfer Center Bremerhaven (TTZ) is a research institution established in 1987 in Bremerhaven (Germany). It operates in applied R&D in the two fields "Futur Technologies : Water-Energy-Landscape" and "Food quality and safety". Research topics are e.g. integrated water - and nutrient management, controlled wastewater irrigation in short rotation plantations, efficient energy use in reenhouses, or unconventional crops for energy production, or as raw materials for the building material sector, or for the chemical industry. TTZ has about 100 highly skilled international academic employees (scientists and engineers) and an annual turnover of around 8 million Euros. Since its foundation, TTZ has successfully co-operated with SMEs, RTDs, IAGs, NGOs and other organisations at regional, national and EU level in more than 300 R&D projects, both, as project co-ordinator and partner. Examples of projects related to the proposed project are : GREENERGY (Collective Research), BIOPOROS (Collective Research), WACOSYS (CRAFT), LADAS (Asia Pro Eco), INAWAB (Asia Pro Eco). Besides scientific-technical services, TTZ offers additional support in marketing and project fund raising.
ENIT is the first Engineering school of Tunisia created in 1968. The Polytechnic School is ensuring 250 graduates by year in many fields. At the national level, ENIT collaborates with industries and other research organisations. Moreover, it is involved in many international networks such as : Med Campus, AUPELE, AUF, UREF, PRICAT, etc. One of the principal activities of ENIT is to undertake research in the fields of solar energy building construction, heat transfer, environmental technologies, sustainable water treatment, etc. A new doctorate field was integrated since 2002 with the main subject which is solar desalination and decentralized water treatment. The Solar Energy Laboratory (Laboratoire d'Energie Solaire), which will take part in the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy (IAMB)The objectives of the Mediterranean Agriculture Institute in Bari (IAMB) are enhancing human resources as an all-important factor of sustainable development in Mediterranean agriculture, deepening, widening and spreading scientific knowledge as a basic factor to improve production techniques and disseminating the culture of international co-operation as a key factor to socioeconomic development and peaceful coexistence of Mediterranean peoples. The working fields of IAMB are water resources research and management with reference to wastewater problem solving in urban and peri-urban structures, irrigated agriculture, integrated protection of Mediterranean fruit crops and Mediterranean agricultural production with the organic farming method. One main expertise of IAMB is basic scientific and technical training perfectly tuned to
"ICARDA" means International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. ICARDA was established in 1977 and is governed by an independent Board of trustees. Based in Aleppo, Syria, it is one of the 16 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ICARDA serves all dry-area developing countries for the improvement of on-farm water-use efficiency, rangeland, and small-ruminant production, ICARDA's international cooperation is built on its close relationships with national agricultural research systems (NARS) and donors. Cooperation with NARS is promoted through seven regional programs, each with a regional coordinator based in the region itself. In the CYCLER-SUPPORT project, ICARDA will participate with the North-African region, covering the arid and semi-arid areas of Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. ICARDA's mission is to improve the welfare of poor people and alleviate poverty through research and training in dry areas of the developing world, by increasing the production, productivity and nutritional quality of food, while preserving and enhancing the natural resource base. ICARDA is committed to the advancement of agricultural research, free exchange of germplasm and information for research, protection of intellectual property rights, including indigenous knowledge of farmers, human resources development, the sustainable use of natural resources, and poverty alleviation, particularly among women and children. Contacts
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About 2.500 trainees have attended one year post graduate specialisation courses (DPGS) and two years Master of Science courses over the years, supported by scholarships mainly granted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but also by the European Union, the FAO and CIHEAM. IAMB is organising several conferences in this field, as for instance the "International Conference on : WATER, LAND AND FOOD SECURITY IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS 2005".
