Priorities and funded actions
Objectives
- To contribute to the establishment of a Mediterranean WEFE Nexus Community of Practice (NCoP), which is envisaged to:
- Promote the identification and communication of WEFE Nexus best practices and technical solutions
- Act as an effective and sustainable forum/platform to attract and stimulate collaboration and knowledge sharing across stakeholders
- Interface science, policy and practice around WEFE Nexus demonstration cases as socio-innovation experiments in the Mediterranean Region
- To foster the shift from sectoral Water, Ecosystems, Food and Energy management towards an integrated resource-use approach in the Mediterranean Region by sharing knowledge on the Nexus approach
- To enable a long-lasting cooperation within and between demonstration areas for the development of scientifically validated socio-innovative adaptation and mitigation measures
- To promote/support the deployment of regional demonstration cases as laboratories for scale-up and policy design
- To contribute to the development, testing, dissemination and replication WEFE Nexus solutions in the Mediterranean Region and beyond
Priorities
Priority 1 – Build the NCoP around a network of existing WEFE Nexus demonstration cases to disclose and make available explicit and tacit knowledge spread across the Mediterranean Region.
Priority 2 – Involve practitioners, scientists, national-level programme teams as well as members from inter-governmental bodies, non-government (NGOs) and civil society (CSOs) organizations, who will exchange data and best practices from hands-on demonstration actions providing evidence of the economic and socio-ecological benefits of the WEFE Nexus approach.
Among financed actions
Set out a plan on how to:
- Run a Mediterranean WEFE Nexus community of practitioners, innovators and local implementing authorities to promote the development, replication and upscaling of WEFE Nexus solutions at regional scale
- Identify, attract and federate demonstration cases beyond the partnership of the consortium in order to ensure as much as possible the regional coverage of the Community of Practice with a critical mass of actors
- Analyse the respective roles of scientists, local authorities, communities, and potential investors in developing governance models in the demonstration cases
- Propose NCoP engagement measures to mobilize a diversity of institutional, research and local actors to learn from and support each other in providing solutions to overcome sectoral fragmentation in decision-making
- Analyse and develop recommendations on how to promote the adoption of Nexus best practices accounting for regional specificities
- Develop a mechanism for capacity building and Nexus knowledge transfer, including communication, outreach, stakeholder events and awareness-rising campaigns in Mediterranean countries
- Instruments such as a NCoP Knowledge Hub should be developed to gather, evaluate and synthesise research outcomes for the Mediterranean Region, facilitate the exchange of information and data and provide support and advice to the NCoP members
Additional information
- This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
- Initial duration of the action: 48 months
Eligibility
- Be any legal entity created under the EU law
- Be any international European interest organization, as defined in point (12) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013
