The IWRM-net mid term event is due in June this year and with it there will be the presentation of the mid-term project reviews. The event is due to be Bari, Italy. For the project coordinators and reviewers this is a gentle reminder that there will be a little extra work to be completed during this year. Further details will be available...
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Interactive maps displaying data on surface and groundwater bodies across Europe have been updated by the European Environment Agency (EEA). They include summary statistics at country and river basin district level. The data comes from River Basin...
“Transferring European research outcomes into practice” will take place during the World Water Forum 6 (15 March 2012 in Marseille; 13:15 to 14:15). The WWF6 is an exhibition covering a wide general public. http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/ The added value for WaterDiss to be...
I am very pleased to inform you that we finalized the production of a short and a long version of an animated video called "The Story of Data on the Environment". These video will be presented at the GEOVIII plenary session in Istanbul this week (...
JRC signs agreement with the Academies of Sciences of the Danube region
The signatories are the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), the Romanian Academy (RA) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS).
The agreement, which comes in the context of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, was...
On May 4th 2010, the High Level Group (GPC) endorsed the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Water Challenges for a Changing World. The Vision Document has been drafted by representatives of the JPI Partner and Observer countries. It provides the context to this proposal (Trends and Challenges) and outlines the JPI...
financed by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing (MEDDTL), the CNRS and the Cemagref were added in 2007. For CNRS, this program is managed by the Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE). This program is the culmination of discussions previously held concurrent with the three partners, together or...
The regeneration and re-use of contaminated land and groundwater is an important ambition of European sustainable development strategies. Managing the legacy of contaminated sites across Europeand improving the quality and quantity of groundwater resources requires the development of innovative and sustainable remediation concepts, which must...
http://commsci.blogspot.com/ Sunday, June 15, 2008 An article in the July/August issue of The Atlantic Monthly entitled, "Is Google making us stupid?" was based in part on a UK study prepared primarily for academic librarians and issued in January 2008. One...