MED FRIEND research priorities are focused on the promotion of the UNESCO IHP FRIEND-WATER activities in regional and inter-regional borders, aligned with the strategic action plan of UNESCO IHP-IX (2022-2029). The organisation of international and national conferences and a cross-border trainings to disseminate data, results, and tools related to the sustainable development of hydrological systems, climate change, and community adaptation. 

After the successful ECOTUN 1 organization and the classification of the Observatory of Ghar El Melh lagoon as an UNESCO-Ecohydrology demosite, in 2022, the ECOTUN 2 will be focused on the regional scale to disseminate the Ecohydrology concept on the North African sites.

Main research themes :

• Extreme events
• Erosion and Solid Transport
• Flow Regimes and Water Resources: Assessment of Global Changes
• Karstic Hydrogeology
• Coastal ecohydrology