Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy
POLIMI is bringing expertise on participatory decision-making, robust adaptation measure design, and water-energy-food nexus modelling and management. POLIMI will coordinate the project and lead WP1 and WP4 (meso-scale modelling). POLIMI will also contribute to the generation of climate scenarios as well as to the crop water use and energy system modelling in WP2, and participate in micro-scale modelling (WP5). POLIMI will contribute also to the activity of stakeholder engagement and interaction (WP6) and dissemination (WP7).
Athens University of Economics and Business
(AUEB), Greece
AUEB will bring its expertise on socio-economic modelling as well as water management modelling and providing feedback from other AUEB projects that feed into this project. AUEB is leading WP2 (macroscale modelling) and also WP5 which is stakeholder engagement and interaction. AUEB will also be contributing to the other WPs.
Yezreel Valley College (YVC), Israel
YVC is bringing expertise on macro-economic modelling, water-energy-food nexus modelling, economic and policy analyses. YVC will co-lead WP2 (macro scale modelling) and contribute to WP3 (meso-scale modelling), WP4 (micro-scale modelling), WP5 (stakeholder engagement and interaction) and WP6 (dissemination).
University of Haifa (UH), Israel
UH will contribute to the macro-economic assessment using their research experience on WEF Nexus topics in previous research projects. UH will be responsible for testing the transferability and portability of the proposed solutions, via analyzing the challenges and opportunities in terms of portability of AWESOME framework results (including the southern Mediterranean case study) to other basins in the Mediterranean region (WP3, Task 3.3). The task will also include a review of additional technologies not tested in this framework at the micro level in order to quantify their value as a part of ecosystem services of the Mediterranean Sea.
Zon Gardens
AF will be responsible for designing, developing and operating the different innovative technological solutions demonstrated at the micro-scale to produce more crop per drop, specifically a medium scale leafy Green and Red Batavia hydroponic system possibly powered by solar power technology in Egypt in WP5, for informing strategic planning at the meso (river basin) scale. AF will also support the consortium with all the logistical and socio-economic studies conducted on the micro scale.
Agrimatic Farms (AF), Egypt
AF will be responsible for designing, developing and operating the different innovative technological solutions demonstrated at the micro-scale to produce more crop per drop, specifically a medium scale leafy Green and Red Batavia hydroponic system possibly powered by solar power technology in Egypt in WP5, for informing strategic planning at the meso (river basin) scale. AF will also support the consortium with all the logistical and socio-economic studies conducted on the micro scale.
RWTH Aachen University (RWTH), Germany
RWTH Aachen with its wide experience in managing EU funded project will be supporting the grant applicant in managing this project. In addition, with Agrimatic Farms, it will be responsible for WP5 “Micro Level Models”, whose goal is to demonstrate the potential of new technological solutions applied at the micro-scale pilots to maximize the productivity of a unit water in terms of valuable products such as crops and fish. RWTH is also bringing expertise on decision-making and DSS into AWESOME and will contribute to WP4. RWTH will assure that Water in the WEF nexus is treated according to the principles and the mandate of the UNESCO Chair on “Hydrological Change and Water Resources Management” established at Aachen in 2010.
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Italy
FEEM has long and well established experience in terms of scientific communication and dissemination. Hence, FEEM will lead WP7 -Dissemination outreach and policy. In addition, on the basis of the expertise of its research area Agenda 2030, which is already focusing on economic modelling under uncertainty and water-energy-food nexus, FEEM will contribute to WP3 with the implementation of dynamic stochastic models to study the effects of uncertainty at micro and macro level.
