Project Management

« MEditerranean Development of Innovative Technologies for

integrAted waTer managEment »

Kick-off meeting [7th-8th May 2004]

Administrative news• Consortium partners

– 10 Partners - 1 = 9 partners– Participant N°3 : Nymphéa Water refuses to accede to the

contract, for financial reason– Consequences : EC no longer bound by its offer to contract to

the partner. EC informed. Contract between brgm and EC signed. Project on going.

• Administrative and Financial points of view : OK to reallocate partner N°3 funds or partially to other partners, no substantial modifications to WP description, and minimum of subcontracting.

• Technical point of view : modification of WP description and budget

• Technical approval of the withdrawal of Nymphéa by partners, signed by legal authorised person

• New CPF and Work description to be signed by partners, amendment to the contract between brgm and EC

– Starting date of the contract : 1st May 2004

Administrative news• Form A - Accession to the contract

– to be filled in by each contractor, done in 3 copies:• one for co-ordinator,one for the Commission and one for the

partner

– delay : 30 days after 1st May 2004– Send three copiesthree copies at BRGM, Alain Beauce, 3, avenue

Claude-Guillemin - 45060 Orléans Cedex 2 - France, Phone +33 (0)2 38 64 36 92

– as quick as possible, by express mail

• Banking information– received : Cranfield, WERSC, HUKAM, PRIDESA,AECS– not yet received: Lebanon partners (CREEN-ESIB), CNRS to

be sent to Nathalie D.

Administrative news• Cost statements to be completed by partner every 12

months• Assessment last 12 months, budget for next 18

months…..

• Resources Justification every 12 months : – personnel– durable equipment– travel and subsistence– sub-contracting– consumables– receipts

• Identify administrative contact person by each partner• Administrative brgm contacts : b.houdas@brgm.fr or

a.darcheville@brgm

Management of project• Management group: Co-ordinator (scientific and

administrative) + one person by partner– scientific and technical management– dialogue between partners– validation - decision phases– chairman = co-ordinator = Nathalie <=> link to EC

• Decision: 2/3 of partners representative (9) = 6• Communication : basically by e-mail and meeting if

necessary

• Steering Committee : external experts (National institutions representatives, senior scientists) + WP leaders = 12 members

Management of project• Steering Committee

– National institutions or water management in civil society representatives

• Turkey : ? • Syria : ? • Lebanon: Fadi Comair (GDHER) or ? • Jordan : ?

– Senior scientists• Prof. E. Custodio, IGME, Spain• Prof. L. Tulipano, University of Sapienza, Roma, : coasatl

karst aquifers • LM Hermans, Delft University, Policy and Management:

integrated water management

DELAY 1st JUNE 2004

Management of project• Consortium Agreement (draft) - proposal (to be

modified under suggestions of partners, final version to be approved by e-mail, then signed):

=> specify the organisation of work between Contractors, organise the management of the project, define rights and obligations of the

contractors

– Management group: 2/3 to deliberate, take decision; 3/4 majority of the votes of members present or represented

– Co-ordinator shall draft the minutes of each meeting to formalise in writing all decisions taken, dispatch them to all contractors within 15 days of the concerned meeting date

– Intellectual property rights provisions

– Annexes : (A) list of affiliates, (B) Work description, (C) Allocation of resources, (D) Pre existing Know How

DELAY : end of JUNE 2004

Management of projectWP0: Overall management of the MEDITATE project

WP 1 : (A) Hydrogeological catchments characterisation and (B) aquifers - catchment modelling

WP 2 : Socio-economic study

WP 4 : WMSS methodology, development, implementation

WP 3 : Technological innovation

WP 5: Dissemination, technology transfer

Management of projectYEAR 1 YEAR 3YEAR 2Wp title

WP0 Project Coord

WP1 Data baseCatchment

characterisationCatchment hydro

modellingFinal WP 1 report

WP2 Methodo - data Water scenarios

Social surveyCost eff. analysis

Restitution, acceptability, assessment

WP3 AUV technologyMonitoring capture

prototypesDesalination plan

designWater reuse

analysis1st May 2004 1st May 2005 1st May 2006 1st May 2007

Management of projectYEAR 1 YEAR 3YEAR 2Wp title

WP5 Web SiteWorkshops

Technological transfer studyAssessment

1st May 2004 1st May 2005 1st May 2006 1st May 2007

WP4 ScenariosWMSS

developmentWMSS

integrationReports

PMRC

PMRC

PMRC

WEB SITE Meditate• Contents:

– title (acronym + explicit)– logo EC 6FWP INCO– reference number of contract / call for projects [FP6-2002-

INCO-MPC-1, PL 509112]

– logo MEDITATE with drawing or pictures of coastal springs– topics: partners, sites, work description, data, news, water

resources management (local-regional levels), home– webmaster (HUKHAM), co-ordinator: N.Dörfliger– visit counters, virtual guest book

WEB SITE Meditate• Topics:

– partners (European map, institution name of partners, partners list with website link, partner name, country, contact person)

– work : flowchart with WP, WP description (objectives and tasks), problematic and general objectives of the project

– Sites (European map, site names, pictures, problematic, site descritpion : Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon)

– Data : which type, type of access ?

– News : Results (pdf documents of publications, congress abstracts…), Events ( pdf documents to be downloaded) : public (Wp reports or part of it…)and restricted access for partners (meeting agenda, meeting minutes, annual report…)

– Local and regional information about water management in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan : English, Turkish and Arabic ? One line discussion forum ? Virtual Guest book ?

– Home page

• Access : public and restricted to partners• Responsibility of website contents : co-ordinator and not the

responsibility of EC

• EC catalogue of undertaken projects of INCO programme : objectives, activities, expected results and outcomes (before 15th June) : ND

WEB SITE Meditate

Contact with other INCO-MED projects

• NOSTRUM DSS governance, science and technology for sustainable water resource management in the Mediterranean area, role of DSS tools [start June 04]

• OPTIMA support of policy [start June 04] - follow previous project SMART (2003-2005) (ICA3-CT-2002-10096]

• => set up forum discussion, exchange of information, published results as SMART reports

• contact to be taken in order to see in which way lines of work can be mutually reinforcing and beneficial, specifically in the socio-economic aspects/ synergies between projects ; sharing methodology

• contact : ND and/or WP leaders• organising unique final workshop for dissemination in common

countries Lebanon i.e.

SMART inco-med project [2003-2005]

“Sustainable management of scarce resources in the coastal zone”

Co-ordinator : Kurt Fedra, Environmental Software &Services, ESS, Austria

Objectives: to develop, implement and test a new, participatory but scientifically sound and relational approach to planning and management of the coastal zone that can help to reconcile conflicting demands on scarce natural resources

Research teams:

ESS- Austria / SOGREAH - France / Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - Italy, Univ. Atlantica - Portugal, DokuzEylul Univ. SUMER -Turkey, National Centre for Remote Sensing - Lebanon, Faculty of Agriculture, Univ Jordan; CEDARE- Egypt, Tunisian Centre for Remote Sensing -Tunisia

http://www.ess.co.at/SMART/

OPTIMA inco-med Project [2004-2007]“Optimisation for Sustainable Water resources

Management”- 4 phases : (i) analysis of structure of the decision making processes in case

study regions, identification of major actors, (ii) data compilation and tool development,regional data base, (iii) case studies : comparison of water management strategies - common framework of indicators, (iv) comparative evaluation and dissemination.

- 7 case studies : Cyprus (Dhiarzos river 260km²), Turkey (Gediz river, 18 000 km²), Lebanon (Litani, Ty 600 km²), Jordan (Zarqa River, 4300 km²) , Palestine (Mountain aquifer), Tunisia (Gulf of Tunis) and Marocco Ceuto-Tetouan 250 km².

- Research teams : EES (A), FEEM (I), Intergeo Hellas (G), Atlantis (Cyprus), SUMER Dokuz Elylul Univ (T), NCRS Lebanon, ELARD (Earth Link & Advanced Resources Development) Lebanon, Fac Agriculture Univ Jordan, Israël Palestine Centre for Research and Information, Centre National Télédétection Tunisia, Univ Hassan II Mohammadia, Marocco

http://www.ess.co.at/OPTIMA/

NOSTRUM DSS inco med [2004-2007]

“Network on governance, science and technology for sustainable water resource management in the Mediterranean. The role of DSS tools”

Objectives :• promote the development of DSS tools in support of policy making for

Integrated Water Resources Management

• contribute to the improvement of scientific knowledge and applied methodologies in the field of IWRM

• Establish durable links between scientific institutions, governments and NGOs and Stakeholders

=> design best practice guidelines for the development and implementation of useful DSS tools for IWRM in the Mediterranean area.

Partners: FEEM (I), ICS UNIDO, UATLA(P), NCRS (L), CEDARE Egiypt, LRAE Tunisia, NTUA Greece, CNRS (F), SUMER (T), IDEAS (I), ITI CERTH Greece, ARI Cyprus, MEDIAS France, TIAMASG (Romania), UPM (Spain), ARCE (Algeria), PAP/RAC Croatia, Istituto Agronomico (I)

http://www.tend-pt.org/research/NOSTRUM.htm

Miscellaneous