EMWIS T.U. BP23 06901 Sophia Antipolis (France)
Sophia Antipolis
فرنسا
- Environment/Sustainable development
The EMWIS initiative is based on active participation and on the sharing of information and experience acquired by the partner countries at local, regional and national levels.
EMWIS has three main targets:
• To provide easy access to information, with special emphasis on:
Institutions
The types of institutions and the people involved.
Documentation
Existing centres and their organisation; the means and technologies used for processing, accessing, consultation and dissemination, standardisation and quality certification.
Training
Existing organisations, programmes, localisation, trainers, methods, training materials, quality certification.
Research and development
Existing organisations, programmes, people involved, means and technologies, publications, partnerships, funding sources.
Data administration
Existing organisations and databases, methods used for data gathering and checking, publications.
• To develop the sharing of information
• To work together on common products and cooperation programmes.
Since the beginning of its mandate in 1999, EMWIS has continued to provide a tool to promote and support the exchange of know-how in the Euro-Mediterranean water sector. It has made a number of significant achievements for the regional cooperation and within each country, not least the posting of a newly designed and extremely comprehensive website
portal at the end of 2006.
During 2006, Pascal Berteaud, French water director who holds the post of EMWIS Steering Committee President, set out five main priorities for 2008-2011 for transfer of know-how activities in the coming years. The list emerged as the result of dialogue with the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs), and takes into consideration national priorities, as
well as the National Action Plans of the European Neighbourhood Policy, and the priorities defined at regional level, such as
the Millennium Development Goals,
Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development and
Pollution Control in the Mediterranean.
Prevention & risk management for extreme phenomena Non-conventional water resources Water monitoring Web portals
National Water Information Systems
Mediterranean Water Observation Mechanism
Euro-med Water Directors’ Forum
Synergies
See: http://www.semide.net/documents/meetings/fol148169/4thWD-slovenia/docume...