The Centre is organising high-level workshops to support the emergence of an international network spearheaded by Montpellier. This action aims to set up a series of workshops on targeted themes and aimed at experts. These workshops will enable the research work of the ICIREWARD network's scientific community to be promoted. The progressive construction of a series of thematic meetings on water in Montpellier is supported by a leading international network in order to make Montpellier the epicentre of a multidisciplinary academic network on water.
Simultaneously, 8 workshops will take place in Montpellier in the framework of the Scientific Assembly IAHS. All the details are available on the IAHS2022 website.
The Mediterranean climate is characterized by particular conditions that make the societies and ecosystems especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Precipitation has strong importance in the region and possible changes in this variable could affect noticeably the society, economy and environment of the region. Climate change projections suggest a drastic reduction of precipitation in the Mediterranean in the coming decades in response to the anthropogenic forcing. The objective of this workshop is to bring together the participants in this initiative, after the first semester of 2022 dedicated to data collection and curation. A variety of academic partners and meteorological services are associated with this initiative, to date participants from different countries have responded: Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Albania, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Israel and Egypt. This network of partners builds up from previous research project consortia and from the recently awarded GDRI-RHYMA network (www.rhyma.org) in North Africa, associated to the UNESCO ICIREWARD center. The current list of partners is expected to cover all Mediterranean countries before the organization of the workshop.
This workshop will take place in October 2022. The exact date will be communicated later
The workshop AntibioResistance in Hydric Environments in the Mediterranean Area (ARcHyMed), proposes to bring together scientists whose core expertise is the environmental, and more particularly hydric, dimension of antibiotic resistance. The issue of environmental antibiotic resistance (AMRENV) is raised in the Mediterranean area to stimulate research actions on a territorial scale. This workshop will allow the Montpellier community to initiate the construction of a scientific network that will allow the emergence of the particularities of AMRENV in the Mediterranean area, to propose a corpus of scientific, medical and societal questions specific to the Mediterranean area, to propose/validate study territories, and to prepare a consortium to respond to calls for projects.
This workshop will take place in October 2022. The exact date will be communicated later
The Mediterranean, semi-arid and arid regions occupy about one third of the continental surface and are home to more than a quarter of the world's population. Climate modelling predicts an increase in this irregularity in the coming decades, while anthropogenic pressure on surface and groundwater resources has increased considerably over the last half-century.
During this two-day seminar, scientists and managers will meet to address different facets of the same complex reality, explaining their objectives and constraints, and comparing experiences from very different socio-environments and resulting from equally varied political orientations.
This workshop will take place in June 2022. The exact date will be communicated shortly.
In recent decades, the impact of climate change on water resources and their extremes has been recognised. Recent data increasingly show that hydroclimatic variations/evolutions are moving away from natural variability and challenge the stationarity hypothesis. It is essential to update the infrastructure design methods, models and tools used in Hydrology/Hydraulics, especially in West Africa where investments in hydraulic infrastructures are essential and where the effects of climate and anthropogenic changes on their basins threaten to increase the vulnerability of the populations.
The objective of this workshop is :
This workshop will take place in June 2022. The exact date will be communicated shortly.
Available in Spanish, more information on the flyer to dowload.
Cycle of 3 seminars "International dialogue of local knowledge on water governance: management strategies in basins under increasing stress due to global changes".
Organizers :
October 18 (15:00 to 17:30 – France), November 8 and 29 (14:00 to 16:30 – France)
From 10:00 to 12:30 (Argentina) for the 3 seminars
Available on Zoom. With simultaneous translation in Spanish, English and French
This cycle of seminars aims at sharing experiences in water governance in a situation of increasing tension on resources. It will include presentations of cases in Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Morocco, Spain and France and will involve academic speakers and resource managers.
Beyond the sharing of experiences, we wish to build new governance approaches more adapted to the new climate contexts.
Open to all and accessible free of charge with registration.
