{"id":1157,"date":"2021-12-21T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/news\/1a-reunion-presencial-del-proyecto-egroundwater\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:51:55","slug":"1st-in-person-plenary-meeting-of-the-egroundwater-project","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/news\/1st-in-person-plenary-meeting-of-the-egroundwater-project\/","title":{"rendered":"1st in-person plenary meeting of the eGROUNDWATER project"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you all know, the eGROUNDWATER project<\/strong> is developing under the particular conditions imposed by the ongoing pandemic. Due to these limitations, the Algerian, Moroccan, Portuguese, and Spanish teams<\/strong> could not meet in person. However, on the last 13 and 14th of December, we finally had our first face-to-face meeting of the project in Valencia, Spain.<\/p>\n

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The first in-person plenary meeting of the project allowed us to share time and space in the IIAMA headquarters at the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica<\/strong> de Val\u00e8ncia.<\/p>\n

From Portugal<\/strong> came Marta Varanda and Marta Nieto from the Universidade de Lisboa, and V\u00e2nia Serr\u00e3o de Sousa (Universidade do Algarve). Representing the Moroccan and Algerian<\/strong> case studies we had Jean-Daniel Rinaudo (BRGM) y Nicolas Faysse (CIRAD). Elena Lopez-Gunn (ICATALIST) and Javier Velasco (VisualNAcert) were the two representatives from the two Spanish companies<\/strong> participating in the project. The local team from the UPV<\/strong> was supported by the project coordinator Manuel Pulido and his team: Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez, Marta Garc\u00eda, Juan Manzano, H\u00e9ctor Maci\u00e1n, Esther L\u00f3pez, Carles Sanchis y Adri\u00e0 Rubio.<\/p>\n

We also shared experiences with Haime G\u00f3mez, coordinator of the sister PRIMA project InTheMed<\/strong><\/a> and his team, Janire Uribe and Vanessa Almeida.<\/p>\n

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Finally, we appreciated the online support from Marco Orlando, the Project Officer from PRIMA,<\/strong> and the rest of the eGROUNDWATER team that was not able to fly to Spain safely: Zhour Bouzidi from Morocco, Bruno Bonte from Algeria and Sofia Coelho from Portugal.<\/p>\n

During the many sessions of the two-day meeting, we reviewed and commented on the project’s progress,<\/strong> which is progressing nicely despite its challenges.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon of the 14th, the team travelled to the Utiel-Requena area to visit the case study and meet with local stakeholders<\/strong>. We met with a delegation from the Campo Arc\u00eds Irrigation Community, who explained the history behind the community and the importance of the two irrigation ponds for crop irrigation in the region.<\/p>\n

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Members from other Irrigation Communities<\/strong> in the area also attended the meeting and shared their experience and knowledge. Furthermore, we enjoyed a most beautiful sunset over the irrigation ponds!<\/p>\n

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We also visited the facility for water pressure control<\/strong> of the drip irrigation system of Campo Arc\u00eds. They explained the ongoing project and the advantages of drip irrigation for water-saving and increasing efficiency.<\/p>\n

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To wrap up the 1st meeting in the Requena-Utiel case study, we met the Cooperativa Vitivin\u00edcola de Campo Arc\u00eds<\/strong>. Our colleagues from Portugal, Morocco and Algeria shared the characteristics of their local case studies with members from the Campo Arc\u00eds and other Irrigation Communities. Finally, we enjoyed a wine tasting event with local wines. We are grateful to the Comunidad de Regantes de Campo Arc\u00eds for their time and effort during the whole afternoon.<\/p>\n

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This meeting has been the first in-person meeting with members from Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain<\/strong>. We hope that circumstances will allow us to continue soon with more sessions in all case study areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1122,"template":"","categories":[16],"class_list":["post-1157","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egroundwater.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}