Project Title:
Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in The Mediterranean (Bonex)
Funding Agency: Partnership for Research & Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA), European Union
Project Description:
BONEX is a project funded by the PRIMA-EU Foundation specifically for the Mediterranean Region. This region faces several challenges to ensure future food and water security, whilst preserving ecosystems. BONEX explores and develops specific solutions promoting the linking of governance with practice to overcome barriers to WEFE (water, energy, food, ecosystem) policies.
The Mediterranean Region is facing growing challenges to ensure food and water supply as countries experience increasing demand and decreasing availability of natural resources. The nexus approach aims at managing and leveraging synergies across sectors with an efficient and integrated management of the Water, Energy, Food, and Ecosystems Nexus (WEFE).
BONEX objectives are to provide practical and adapted tools, examine concrete and context-adapted technological innovations, enhance policies and governance and facilitate WEFE Nexus practical implementation that balances the social, economic, and ecological trade-offs.
The project aims at producing a novel, transdisciplinary, diagnostic WEFE Bridging Framework, which combines methods in a context-specific manner and going beyond disciplinary silos. The diagnostic tools supporting the framework will be developed and tested in seven selected demonstration projects in the region which pilot innovative technologies (agrivoltaics, wastewater reuse systems, etc.).
As a result, BONEX will provide policymakers and practitioners with an interactive decision-making tool to evaluate trade-offs, synergies, and nexus solutions approaches in a transdisciplinary manner. Further, it will produce valuable experiences with tailoring innovative WEFE Nexus technologies that provides new business opportunities. The WEFE nexus approach is required to implement sustainable agri-food systems and preserve ecosystems.
This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union.
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GJU Share: € 289,750
Starting Date: 01/05/2022
End Date: 31/08/2025
Project Field: Research
Partners:
- BIOAZUL SL (BIOAZUL), ESP
- Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), ESP
- FutureWater (FW), ESP
- Universidad de Almeria (UAL), ESP
- University of Kassel (UNI KASSEL), GER
- Consorzio della Bonifica Renana (CBR), ITA
- University of Bologna (UNIBO), ITA
- Union for the Conservation of Nature, Regional Office West Asia (IUCN-ROWA), JOR
- NOVAENERGIA (NE), LBN
- American University Beirut (AUB), LBN
- Office Régional de Mise en valeur Agricoledu SOUSS MASSA (ORMVASM), MOR
- Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV), MOR
- Natural Business Intelligence (NBI), POR
- Nova University Lisbon (NOVA), POR
- SmartLOGGER (SL), TUN
- National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry (INRGREF), TUN
Project PI: Prof. Serena Sandri