FP7 311780 MED-SPRING D3.1 Report 2015

THEME [INCO.2012-1.3]

INCONET – Mediterranean Partner Countries

Deliverable N.: D3.1

Title: Third year repository progress report - 2015

Funding scheme: Coordination and support action

Project Acronym: MED-SPRING

Project Coordinator: CIHEAM-IAMB, Claudio Bogliotti

Grant Agreement n°: 311780

Authors: CSIC

Dissemination level: PU (Public)

Coding: MED-SPRING/WP3/D3.1/V.1/ Third year repository progress report - 2015

Official delivery date: M36

Project start: 1 February 2013 Project duration: 48 months

311780 MED-SPRINGThird year repository progress report

Abstract

The Paris Conference on Climate Change is of the outmost importance for theEuro-Mediterranean Cooperation in these times affected by its impact on the issuesof water, energy and food availability. Together with the mass migration from coun-tries devastated by wars, jobs and food shortages represent the biggest challengesto be addressed, even for the scientific community. The increasing awareness on theeffects of Climate Change in the Mediterranean area put higher pressure in the needof political and technical cooperation. The ERANETMED Call succeeded to mobil-ize a high number of excellent research groups in both sides of the Mediterranean,demonstrating the feasibility of co-design, co-finance and co-owner the scientific co-operation, providing significant progress in experience to the drafting of the PRIMAinitiative developing the Art. 185 of the Treaties for a closer cooperation EU-MPC.All this changing scenarios creates an urgent need to improve the institutional andregulatory framework of the scientific cooperation between the two borders of theMediterranean.

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Contents

1 EU-MPC Political landscape in the Research and Innovation coopera-tion policies 3

2 INCO.Net MED-Spring activities during 2015 6

2.1 MED-SPRING training on Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.2 MED-SPRING Euro-Mediterranean Observatories meeting on Indicators . 6

2.3 Third EMEG meeting “A frame for a comprehensive understanding ofwater-energy-food nexus” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.4 1st MED-SPRING ScienceCaf “Cultural Heritage contribution to Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.5 MED-SPRING multi-task event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.6 MED-SPRING - 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Brokerage and Venturing Eventon Research and Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.7 Second Annual Meeting of the General Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.8 Euro-Mediterranean projects dialogue to enhance water-energy-food nexusmeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3 Current National Activities in the Mediterranean Countries 8

4 Thematic International Activities on MED-Spring Societal Challengesand Policies 9

5 Links to background reference documents for the EMEG Group 13

5.1 Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

5.2 Food and water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

5.3 Energy and water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

5.4 Nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

5.5 Structural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

6 Web visits 17

List of Figures

1 EU-Mediterranean R&I Cooperation status and prospects within H2020 . . 5

2 Main problems and specific objectives of the NEXUS concept applied tothe Mediterranean research and innovation environment . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3 Top 5 global risks in terms of Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4 Top 5 global risks in terms of Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5 Basic information on the visitors of the MED-SPRING project website . . 18

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6 Percentage and Number of visitors of the MED-SPRING project websitecoming from the different channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

7 Basic information on the visitors of the MED-SPRING project websitecoming from social channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

8 Worldwide map of the visitors of the MED-SPRING project website . . . . 199 Data related to the worldwide map of the visitors of the MED-SPRING

project website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010 Most visited pages in the MED-SPRING project website . . . . . . . . . . 20

1 EU-MPC Political landscape in the Research and

Innovation cooperation policies

May be the most important event affecting Research and Innovation Cooperation policiesin the fields of Water, Energy and Food Security, not exclusively in the Mediterraneanarea but particularly important for it, has been the UN Climate Change Conference inParis from 30th November to 12th December 2015, where 196 countries attending theconvention came together and adopted by consensus the Paris Agreement, aimed at lim-iting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius, and pursue efforts to limit the riseto 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris Agreement is to be signed in 2016 and will enter intoforce upon ratification by 55 countries representing over 55% of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Paris Agreement will provide a compulsory argument to redraft the environmentalpolicies in the Mediterranean Area and will force a redefinition of the policies dealing withagriculture and energy, fostering the application of sustainability criteria and the use ofrenewable sources of energy as an alternative to carbon-dependent economies. Energyefficiency becomes a key policy in the Mediterranean Area as witnessed by the AlgerianProgramme of renewable energies and energy efficiency adopted in 2015, aimed at in-stalling a RE capacity of 22000 mgawatts by 2030 and obtaining a saving of 9% of energyconsomption by 2030.

On 23 November 2015 the European Commission organised the 20th meeting of theEuro-Mediterranean Group of Senior Officials in Research and Innovation (EU-Med GSO)together with the EuroMediterranean Industrial Cooperation Working Party Coordinat-ors. The conference was organised by DG RTD in cooperation with DG GROW andDG NEAR. The meeting, which marked the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona pro-cess, gathered more than 70 participants, including representatives from the SouthernMediterranean countries, EU Member States, the European Commission, UNIDO, aca-demic institutions such as UNIMED and EMUNI, coordinators of industrial projectssuch as the Small Business Act and the R2I, as well as market stakeholders from AN-IMA, Berytech-Lebanon, the MENA Business Angels Network and others. The speakersanalysed the ongoing steps towards a Common Mediterranean Research and Innovation

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Agenda, by presenting and assessing the impact of ongoing projects in this field, likePACEIM, BLUMED, ERANETMED and the 5+5 STI GSO initiative. The participantsalso proposed ways to reduce the gap between research, innovation and the market; inthis regard, special emphasis was put on aligning research objectives with socioeconomicneeds as well as on fostering ties between academia, business and industry. It is estimatedthat around 1,000,000 highly-skilled people originating from the MENA region live andwork in the EU. In this context, the need to improve the institutional and regulatoryframework which will facilitate the process of recruitment was also highlighted. Attentionwas also drawn to the opportunities for funding excellence and innovation through EUprogrammes such as COSME, as well as the increasing participation of the private sectorin supporting the implementation of innovative entrepreneurial ideas. To this end, theEC reiterated its commitment to continue supporting its South Mediterranean partnersin the development of a vibrant private sector able to expand its investments, innovateand create value-added-jobs.

ERANETMED First Call created great expectative in the Med scientific community.There were 727 partners coming from the 15 financing countries and 5 other countries, or-ganized in 190 proposals marks a turning point of the scientific and business communitiesengagement in these kinds of cooperation actions based in the co-design, co-financing andco-ownership of the resulting results, even if only 20 proposals were selected for financingdue to budget limitations. Most of the participant partners are Universities and ResearchCenters. The presence of companies was significant but short. Closer cooperation betweenthe research system and the productive system in both sides of the Mediterranean is highlydesirable. More sensibilization of the economic actors about the possibilities offered bythese co-owned ERA.Net Calls should be stimulated.

During the EMEG Meeting held in Malta from 30 September to 2 October 2015, Chris-topher Gauci, Officer of DG Research of the EC, presented the EU-Mediterranean R&ICooperation Status and Prospects within H2020 till that moment. The overall results areshown in the figure 1 in the page 5:

It worths also mentioning that the ENPI (European Neighborhood Partners Instru-ment) supports research and innovation capacity building through the implementation ofbilateral research development and innovation programmes with the following amounts:Algeria (21 M + 1,5 M), Egypt (11 M + 20 M), Jordan (5+5 M), Morocco (1.35 M)and Tunisia (12 M, and ENPI regional programme 2015 on “Enhancing Investment, In-novation and Growth in the Southern Neighbourhood” in support of the DG RTD ledinitiative on Common Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Agenda will invest 10,7 million,7 million of which for innovation.

Tunisia and the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme for research and Innovation,have signed an Association Agreement the 1 December 2015 allowing the researchers and

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Figure 1: EU-Mediterranean R&I Cooperation status and prospects within H2020

innovators from Tunisia to participate in Horizon 2020 under the same conditions as theircounterparts from EU Member States and other 13 associated countries. The agreement,still pending for ratification by the Tunisian Parliament, will associate Tunisia to Horizon2020 from the 1st January 2016, and was signed by Carlos Moedas, European Commis-sioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Chiheb Bouden, Tunisian Minister forHigh Education and Scientific Research.

Commissioner Moedas said: “I am pleased to welcome Tunisia into Horizon 2020, thebiggest programme for research and innovation of the world. This agreement is a histor-ical one. It shows that through research and innovation, the EU is supporting the youngTunisian democracy and helping to invest in knowledge as a foundation of future devel-opment. Tunisia’s accession also shows how a research policy open to the world can bringnovel ideas and enrich our common research efforts.” The Association Agreement allowsfor enhanced cooperation in research and innovation between the EU and Tunisia, vitalfor successful and modern economies. It also represents another step towards reachingthe EU goal of opening research and innovation to the world.

In FP7, Tunisia accounted for a total number of 103 successful participations in a totalof 88 retained proposals, most of them in the Food Security and Sustainable Agriculturepolicy area. For Horizon 2020, Tunisia already participates with 1 signed agreement. Inaddition, there are 12 Tunisian participations in 10 mainlisted projects, which will inprinciple lead to grant agreements.

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Last 26 January 2016 closed the H2020-SC5-2016-2017 Call for a Coordination andSupport Action (CSA) on “Food systems and water resources for the development ofinclusive, sustainable and healthy Euro-Mediterranean societies”, which will support thefuture development of the PRIMA initiative under Art. 185 of the European Treaties(Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean area). At the same time,the European Commission has launched a Public Consultation on the PRIMA initiative1

where institutions and private persons interested in the EU-MPC partnership in Researchand Innovation could contribute with their inputs and comment to this important initi-ative.

The Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy 17 Novem-ber 2015, Brussels agreed on a Declaration for the promotion of blue economy in theMediterranean stressing the need for the Mediterranean region to make the best use ofthe potential of the blue economy, to promote growth, jobs and investments and reducepoverty, whilst safeguarding healthy seas and developing a clear vision for the sustainableand integrated development of marine and maritime sectors at national and sea basinlevel2.

2 INCO.Net MED-Spring activities during 2015

Please find below the list of events organized by MED-SPRING during 2015, the newestbeing the first one:

2.1 MED-SPRING training on Innovation

MED-SPRING project organized a “Training on Innovation”, scheduled from 25th to27th November 2015. The Training on Innovation was organized in the frame of theEU funded project MED-SPRING in synergy with the capacity building initiatives ofthe EU funded project MERID, to support networking and cooperation in R&I in theEuro-Mediterranean area. Read more: http://www.medspring.eu/event/med-spring-training-innovation.

2.2 MED-SPRING Euro-Mediterranean Observatories meetingon Indicators

On November 5th, 2015 MED-SPRING organized the third meeting of Euro-MediterraneanObservatories, hosted by IRD - Marseille in collaboration with CNRS Lebanon. The aim of

1http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/prima/consultation_en.htm2http://ufmsecretariat.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-17-declaration-on-

blue-economy_en.pdf

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the event was to discuss and agree a possible set of 10 indicators of water quality monitor-ing (priory suggested by the participating observatories in their own field of action). Readmore: http://www.medspring.eu/event/med-spring-euro-mediterranean-observatories-meeting-indicators.

2.3 Third EMEG meeting “A frame for a comprehensive under-standing of water-energy-food nexus”

From 30 September to 2 October 2015, the MED-SPRING project organized in Malta the3rd EMEG meeting, hosted by the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST), incollaboration with CIHEAM-IAMB and MHESR. The event focused on the developmentof ”A frame for a comprehensive understanding of water-food-energy nexus”. Read more:http://www.medspring.eu/event/third-emeg-meeting-frame-comprehensive-understanding-

water-energy-food-nexus .

2.4 1st MED-SPRING ScienceCaf “Cultural Heritage contribu-tion to Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation”

Within the framework of the Egyptian-Italian Workshop on Bilateral Scientific Collabor-ation, MED-SPRING Project is organizing the 1st MED-SPRING ScienceCaf to discussabout ”Cultural Heritage contribution to Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation”. The eventwill be held Tuesday 16 June 2015 at ”Circolo dei Lettori” - Palazzo Garnieri (Turin,Italy). Read more: http://www.medspring.eu/event/1st-med-spring-sciencecaf%

C3%A9-cultural-heritage-contribution-euro-mediterranean-cooperation.

2.5 MED-SPRING multi-task event

MED-SPRING and ERANETMED projects organize together a multi-task event in Beirut,Lebanon, from May 27th to 29th 2015. Read more: http://www.medspring.eu/event/

med-spring-multi-task-event.

2.6 MED-SPRING - 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Brokerage andVenturing Event on Research and Innovation

From the 25th to 26th February 2015, MED-SPRING organized in Berlin (Germany),the two-days event, hosted by DLR, in collaboration with MHESR, MCST, ANIMAand CIHEAM-IAMB: 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Brokerage and Venturing Event on Re-search and Innovation. Read more: http://www.medspring.eu/event/med-spring-

2nd-euro-mediterranean-brokerage-and-venturing-event-research-and-innovation.

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2.7 Second Annual Meeting of the General Assembly

From the 23th to 24th February 2015, MEDSPRING organized in Berlin (Germany), thetwo-days event, hosted by DLR, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly. Read more:http://www.medspring.eu/event/annual-meeting-general-assembly.

2.8 Euro-Mediterranean projects dialogue to enhance water-energy-food nexus meeting

CSIC organized in Barcelona, Spain, last 21st and 22nd January 2015, the ”Euro-Mediterraneanprojects dialogue to enhance water-energy-food nexus meeting”. Read more: http://

www.medspring.eu/event/euro-mediterranean-projects-dialogue-enhance-water-

energy-food-nexus-meeting.

3 Current National Activities in the Mediterranean

Countries

The 6th EU-Egypt JSTCC (Joint Science & Technology Consortium Committee) meetingtook place in May 2015. The meeting reviewed the progress made in bilateral cooperationin research and innovation and discussed opportunities to enhance cooperation. On themargin of the JSTCC, the EC organized a workshop in Cairo entitled “Research andInnovation in the MED: EU Different Instruments toward Shared Goals”. Participantsincluded members of research and innovation clusters and projects funded under differ-ent EU programmes and instruments supporting innovation. These included the projectsfunded under FP7, as well as projects funded under the ENPI bilateral research and in-novation programmes in the South MED region. The workshop was organized under theEYD 2015 as one of DG RTDs initiatives to foster cooperation and synergies betweenprojects funded under EU different instruments in the South MED region.

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the new Cabinet of Sherif Ismail merged theScientific Research and Higher Education portfolios with a new minister. A nationaltechnology incubators programme (INTELAQ) to support young innovators, a NationalNanotechnology Network to tackle challenges in energy and other sectors, and a firstonline Innovation Hub (Egypt Innovates) to support innovators and entrepreneurs werelaunched.

In Tunisia: “Le programme EuroMediterranee 3+3 a ete lance par l’INRIA (Institutnational de recherche en informatique et automatique) en 2005. Depuis le deuxieme appelen 2008, le CIRAD (Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pourle developpement) et l’INRA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique) ont rejointl’INRIA, pour gerer ce programme avec le Ministere de l’enseignement superieur et de la

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recherche scientifique de la Tunisie (MESRS), le Ministere de l’enseignement superieur etde la recherche scientifique d’Algerie (MESRS) et le Centre national de la recherche scien-tifique et technique du Maroc (CNRST). Objectif du programme: L’objectif essentiel de ceprogramme est de renforcer des projets de recherche collaborative, transmediterraneenneet pluridisciplinaire dans les thematiques de mathematiques appliquees et informatiqueen relation avec des problematiques interessant le bassin mediterraneen (gestion de l’eau,securite alimentaire, probleme environnementaux, sante ...), entre des chercheurs appar-tenant aux differentes structures de recherche des Parties du Consortium (Algerie, Es-pagne, France, Italie, Maroc, Tunisie)”.

“Duree et Financement des projets Les projets sont selectionnes pour une duree de 4ans, avec une evaluation a mi-parcours. Les budgets sont alloues sur une base annuelle,avec une participation financiere de chacune des parties engagees dans le projet couvrantles depenses de mobilites ( chaque partenaire prend a sa charge les frais de voyage de seschercheurs, ainsi que les frais de sejour de ses invites) et les depenses de logistiques. Dansle cadre de cet programme de cooperation le Ministere de l’Enseignement Superieur etde la Recherche Scientifique de Tunis lance un appel a candidatures pour participer a unsminaire a manifestation d’interet qui sera organise au mois de septembre 2016 a l’INRIAde Sophia Antipolis”.

4 Thematic International Activities on MED-Spring

Societal Challenges and Policies

During the EMEG (Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group within Project MEDSPRING)Meeting in Malta from 30 September to 2 October 2015, a presentation by Bogliotti etal. addressed the Nexus-related Main Problems and Specific Objectives, identified duringthe first two EMEG Meetings (Lisbon, 2013; Sousse, 2014), and the MedSpring Meetingof the Project Coordinators Platform (Barcelona, 2015). The main problems and specificobjectives of the NEXUS concept applied to the Mediterranean research and innovationenvironment are described in the figure 2 in the page 10:

Also, the results of the First Call of the ERA.Net Med dealing with Energy, Waterand their NEXUS, resolved at the end of 2015, shows a certain misunderstanding by thescientific and innovation communities of the NEXUS concept and the opportunities thatit offers to the academic and business communities in the Mediterranean Area.

It worth also mention the analysis of the Global Risks Report funded by the WorldEconomic Forum3 about global risks and their potential interconnections, where the ana-lysis of the Evolving Global Risks Landscape in the period 2007-2016 in their Likelihood

3http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2016/part-1-title-tba/

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Figure 2: Main problems and specific objectives of the NEXUS concept applied to theMediterranean research and innovation environment

and Impact terms presents the Water Crisis and the failure in Climate Change remedi-ation as major subjects of concern in their social and environmental dimension(green andred colours). Those are shown in the figure 3 in the page 11 and in the figure 4 in thepage 12.

According to Global Footprint Network’s analysis, produced by MIO-ECSDE4 theMediterranean region now uses approximately two and a half times more natural re-sources and ecological services than what its ecosystems can provide. No country in theMediterranean region is capable of providing all the natural resources and services that itspopulation demands by solely relying on its own biocapacity. To some extent they all de-pend on net biocapacity imports. This dependence varies considerably between countriesin the region, from under 5 percent in Bosnia and Herzegovina to over 60 percent in Malta.

Food is a substantial share of Mediterranean countries overall resource requirements,but it ranges widely as a proportion of the overall Ecological Footprint, from as low as20 percent (Slovenia) to as high as 70 percent (Morocco). Food, of course, is a basichuman requirement. Consequently, resource needs for food consumption can be shiftedby only small amounts. In addition, food consumption heavily relates to dietary habitsand production effi ciency. Protein-intensive food such as meat and dairy requires morebioproductive land to produce the same amount of calories as plant-based food products.

Protein based foods thus have higher Footprints than plant-based foods. Portugal

4http://www.footprintnetwork.org/documents/MED_2015_English.pdf

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Figure 3: Top 5 global risks in terms of Likelihood

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Figure 4: Top 5 global risks in terms of Impact

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and Malta have the most protein-intensive diets in the Mediterranean, which are basedlargely on fish. In Morocco and Tunisia, on the other hand, the biggest share of the foodFootprint comes from cereal consumption and a small share from the fishing industry.Reducing human dependency on ecological assets for food consumption therefore dependson agriculture productivity improvements, food waste reduction, and the promotion ofhealthier and less resource-intensive diets.

5 Links to background reference documents for the

EMEG Group

The CIHEAM has prepared a presentation on its Members countries activities in the fieldsof Agriculture, Food production and other items, relevant for the activity of the EMEG:http://ciheam.org/index.php/en/about-ciheam/activities-reports. CSIC has pre-pared the website to have a page where all the interesting documents related to the societalchallenges are found:

5.1 Water

� Stakeholder Engagement for inclusive water governance: http://www.medspring.

eu/sites/default/files/Stakeholder-engagement-for-inclusive-water-governance.

pdf

� 5+5 Water strategy in the western Mediterranean: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/5%2B5-Water-strategy-in-the-western-Mediterranean.

pdf

� Water governance in Jordan: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/

Water-governance-in-Jordan.pdf.

� Water governance in Tunisia: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Water-governance-in-Tunisia-fr.pdf.

� OECD Inventory water Indicators: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/

files/OECD-Inventory-water-Indicators.pdf.

� The State of the Water Sector in Africa 2014: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/The-State-of-the-Water-Sector-in-Africa-2014.pdf.

� The Water for Life decade: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/

The-Water-for-Life-decade.pdf.

� Coordinating land and water governance: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Coordinating-land-and-water-governance.pdf.

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� National drought management policies initiative: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/National-drought-management-policies-initiative.pdf.

� Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the Joint Programming Initiative Wa-ter Challenges for a Changing World 2013: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/

default/files/Strategic-Research-and-Innovation-Agenda-of-the-Joint-Programming-

Initiative-Water-Challenges-for-a-Changing-World-2013.pdf.

� Water scarcity security and democracy a Mediterranean Mosaic: http://www.

medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Water-scarcity-security-and-democracy-

a-Mediterranean-Mosaic.pdf.

� Water and sustainable development: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Water-and-sustainable-development.pdf.

5.2 Food and water

� Towards a water and food secure future FAO: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Towards-a-water-and-food-secure-future-FAO.pdf.

� HLPE water for food security nutrition report: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/HLPE-water-for-food-security-nutrition-report.pdf.

� Connecting the Water and Carbon Cycles for the Generation of Food Security andEcosystem Services: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Connecting-the-Water-and-Carbon-Cycles-for-the-Generation-of-Food-Security-and-

Ecosystem-Services.pdf.

5.3 Energy and water

� Introduction to the water and energy challenge SBC: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Introduction-to-the-water-and-energy-challenge-SBC.

pdf.

� Energy and water world water week 2014: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Energy-and-water-world-water-week-2014.pdf.

� World water week energy and water abstract volume 2014: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/World-water-week-energy-and-water-abstract-volume-

2014.pdf.

� Towards a Euro-Mediterranean Energy Community: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/Towards-a-Euro-Mediterranean-Energy-Community.pdf.

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� Energy research and the contributions of the social sciences: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Energy-research-and-the-contributions-of-the-social-

sciences.pdf.

� Towards an Integrated Framework for SDGs Ultimate and Enabling Goals for theCase of Energy: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Towards-an-Integrated-Framework-for-SDGs-Ultimate-and-Enabling-Goals-for-the-Case-

of-Energy.pdf.

� How to achieve 100 percent renewable energy: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/How-to-achieve-100-percent-renewable-energy.pdf.

� Secure and sustainable power generation in a water constrained world: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Secure-and-sustainable-power-generation-

in-a-water-constrained-world.pdf.

� Introduction to the water and energy challenge: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Introduction-to-the-water-and-energy-challenge.pdf.

� Implementing the EU2030 Climate and Energy Framework a closer look at renew-ables and opportunities for an Energy Union: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/

default/files/Implementing-the-EU2030-Climate-and-Energy-Framework-a-

closer-look-at-renewables-and-opportunities-for-an-Energy-Union.pdf.

� Global agenda 2013 water energy and the Arab awakening: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Global-agenda-2013-water-energy-and-the-Arab-awakening.

pdf.

5.4 Nexus

� Bonn Conference 2011 policy recommendations: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Bonn-Conference-2011-policy-recommendations.pdf.

� Understanding the nexus Bonn 2011: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Understanding-the-nexus-Bonn-2011.pdf.

� Call to Action for implementing nexus Bonn 2014: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/Call-to-Action-for-implementing-nexus-Bonn-2014.pdf.

� Nexus in the arab region: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Nexus-in-the-arab-region.pdf.

� The water energy food nexus FAO: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/The-water-energy-food-nexus-FAO.pdf.

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� REEEP how agrifood firms are building new business cases in the water energy foodnexus: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/REEEP-how-agrifood-firms-are-building-new-business-cases-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus.

pdf.

� The energy water food Nexus at decentralised Scales: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/PPEBP3%2BONLINE.pdf.

� Harnessing Modern Agricultural Biotechnology for Africa Economic Development -nexus 2015: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Harnessing-Modern-Agricultural-Biotechnology-for-Africa-Economic-Development%20-%20nexus-

2015.pdf.

� The Nexus through the Lenses of the Value Chain: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/The-Nexus-through-the-Lenses-of-the-Value-Chain.pdf.

� Water Governance in Comparative Perspective From IWRM to a Nexus Approach:http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Water-Governance-in-Comparative-

Perspective-From-IWRM-to-a-Nexus-Approach.pdf.

� Realising the nexus 2013: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Realising-the-nexus-2013.pdf.

� Technical Veil Hidden Politics Interrogating the Power Linkages behind the Nexus:http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Technical-Veil-Hidden-Politics-

Interrogating-the-Power-Linkages-behind-the-Nexus.pdf.

� The Water energy food security nexus in the Med challenges and opportunities:http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/The-Water-energy-food-security-

nexus-in-the-Med-challenges-and-opportunities_0.pdf.

� MED-SPRING collection of information on Nexus: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/MED-SPRING-collection-of-information-on-Nexus.pdf.

� Renewable energy in the water energy food nexus: http://www.medspring.eu/

sites/default/files/Renewable-energy-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus.pdf.

� Cross sectoral integration in the sustainable development goals a nexus approach:http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Cross-sectoral-integration-

in-the-sustainable-development-goals-a-nexus-approach.pdf.

� Understanding the Energy Water Nexus: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Understanding-the-energy-water-nexus.pdf.

� 3rd EMEG position paper: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/

311780-MED-SPRING-3rd-EMEG-Nexus-Position-Paper.pdf.

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5.5 Structural

� BETTER 4th policy brief NAfrica: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/

files/BETTER-4th-policy-brief-NAfrica.pdf.

� Green infrastructure Guide UNEP: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/

files/Green-infrastructure-Guide-UNEP.pdf.

� Towards2030 dialogue Issue Paper on benchmarks for renewables: http://www.

medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Towards2030-dialogue-Issue-Paper-on-

benchmarks-for-renewables.pdf.

� Enabling Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies: http://www.

medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Enabling-Renewable-Energy-and-Energy-

Efficiency-Technologies.pdf.

� Regional NGO Master Plan Final.pdf: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Regional_NGO_Master_Plan_Final.pdf.

� Challenges for Low Carbon Technology Support in Europe: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/Challenges-for-Low-Carbon-Technology-Support-in-

Europe.pdf.

6 Web visits

During this third year, from February 2015 to February 2016, around 8600 people (uniquevisitors) visited the MED-SPRING project website, generating around 22518 page views,as shown in the figure 5 in the page 18.

Google defines a “session” as the total number of visits within the date range. Asession is the period time a user is actively engaged with the website. All usage data(Screen Views, Events, etc.) is associated with a session. Google defines a user as visitorsthat have had at least one session within the selected date range. It includes both newand returning users.

Around 60% of the visitors came from search engines (the so called organic traffic), inparticular from Google. Around 20% came directly to the site (by typing in the addressor using bookmarks or email links), and from the remaining, 18% came from links in otherwebsites (referrals), and 2% came from social channels. We list in the figure just below,being the important information the list on the left, as shown in the figure 6 in the page 18.

Please find also the number of sessions coming from the main social networks in thefigure 7 in the page 19, being the ones from Facebook the majority. Please find in thefigure in the figure 8 in the page 19 the visits to the project website in a worlwide map,

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Figure 5: Basic information on the visitors of the MED-SPRING project website

Figure 6: Percentage and Number of visitors of the MED-SPRING project website comingfrom the different channels

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Figure 7: Basic information on the visitors of the MED-SPRING project website comingfrom social channels

Figure 8: Worldwide map of the visitors of the MED-SPRING project website

being the difference in the color related to the number of visits, and the related numbersin the figure 9 in the page 20.

We can see that most of the visits came from southern Europe countries, but also fromWestern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia. Finally, the most visited pages inthe website are shown in the figure 10 in the page 20:

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Figure 9: Data related to the worldwide map of the visitors of the MED-SPRING projectwebsite

Figure 10: Most visited pages in the MED-SPRING project website

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