MONitoring and Assessing prevention and restoration soLutIons to combat deSertificAtion (MONALISA) HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01

The main goal of MONALISA is to identify, showcase the socio-economic and environmental effectiveness, and promote the expansion of innovative and tailored solutions to prevent and reverse land degradation and desertification (LDD). This will be achieved through the integration of scientific and local knowledge, emerging from newly established as well as enduring social learning spaces among interdependent stakeholders and researchers from diverse disciplines and multi-sectoral systems employing a transdisciplinary approach. This integration will be carried out in four Living Labs (LLs) and two Lighthouses (LHs) located in the Mediterranean (European and no-European), encompassing different levels of aridity across five countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Tunisia, Palestine). In the LLs and LHs, the following solutions to prevent and restore LDD will be assessed and scaled-out: innovative grazing systems (e.g., virtual fencing), microbial-based solutions (e.g., biofertilizers and symbiotic N-fixing rhizobia), conservation agriculture practices (e.g., cover crops and reduced tillage), ecological restoration practices (e.g, harvesting and seeding of residual plant material in protected grasslands, green infrastructures), water harvesting techniques, treated wastewater reuse in agriculture. Among the most important outputs, MONALISA will develop a multi-modular practices-oriented Decision Support System composed of several web-based applications by leveraging innovative data and technologies, including those from remote sensing and by using Artificial Intelligence technologies. MONALISA will focus on new business opportunities with (and not only for) stakeholders, emerging from the cost-benefit and market analysis and the promotion of public and private investments on the innovative solutions. This will promote the adoption of sustainable and environmental-friendly solutions against LDD contributing to support the economic growth of European and Mediterranean drylands.

Initiation date: 01/09/2024
Duration: 48 months

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Adaptation of existing agricultural practices in the Nestos Valley through the use of Information Technologies, Communications and Remote Sensing Technologies for the protection of the environment.

Initiation date: 01/05/2023
Duration: 27 months

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Creation of a guide for best agricultural practices to protect biodiversity and the ecosystem of the Axios Delta through the utilization of Information Technologies, Communications, and Remote Sensing Technologies.

Initiation date: 01/05/2023
Duration: 27 months

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ENI CBC Sea Basin 2014-2020: 'The MEDiterranean pathWAY for innovation CAPitalisation toward an urban-rural integrated development of non-conventional water resources'

MEDWAYCAP aims to challenge the paradigm in non-conventional water reuse and management in the Mediterranean region through the promotion of sustainable strategies and technological innovations.

Initiation date: 01/10/2021
Duration: 24 months

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ESA AO/1-10376/20/I-EF (Mediterranean Regional Initiative Application for Theme 2 - "SEA") Land-Based Pollution Assessment and Monitoring in the Mediterrenean Coastal Waters.

Initiation date: 01/03/2021
Duration: 24 months

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Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service (WQeMS) H2020-SPACE-2018-2020 (RIA)

WQeMS aims to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’. Therefore, it will focus its activities on monitoring of lakes valorized by the water utilities for the delivery of drinking water. Sentinel data (i.e. Sentinel -2 and Sentinel-1) will be exploited for quality monitoring at a fine spatial resolution level, following validated processes with in situ data. The proposed WQeMS will exploit the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS ONDA), instead of setting up its own download and processing infrastructure. Linkages with the existing Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEPs), such as the Hydrology TEP for monitoring flood events and the Food Security TEP for supporting the sustainable intensification of farming from space will be pursued. Following cases are to be treated in real time in cooperation with drinking water production companies (public and private): - Slow developing phenomena (business-as-usual scenario), such as geogenic or anthropogenic release of potentially polluting elements through the bedrock or pollutants’ leaching in the underground aquifer through human rural activities, may influence water quality. Changes in the monitored chemical dissolved substances may be then detected. - Fast developing phenomena (e.g. floods spilling debris and mud or pollutant spills of chemicals in the lakes or algal bloom and potential release of toxins by cyanobacteria) produce huge quantities of contaminants at a short time interval bringing sanitation utilities at the edge of their performance capacity. Monitoring of the extent of the effluents in the lake; thus, providing a warning about the risk of water contamination, assist in mitigating impact, both for the water drinking water production and the environment.

Initiation date: 01/01/2021
Duration: 30 months

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H2020 WIDESPREAD-05-2020 (Twinning) Coordination and support action (CSA): 'Earth Observation Training in Science and Technology at the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences'

The general aim of the project is to enhance the S&T capacity of the CBK PAN and to achieve excellence in research of EO products’ assimilation in the ecosystem assessment and monitoring. The goal will be reached by establishing close collaboration with three EU research Centres of Excellence.

Initiation date: 01/10/2020
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H2020-SC5-2018-2018-2020 (Innovation Action): ‘Next Generation Land Management services for Agriculture and Forestry’

Initiation date: 01/06/2020
Duration: 36 months

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ENI CBC Black Sea Basin 2014-2020: ‘Copernicus assisted environmental monitoring across the Black Sea Basin’.

Initiation date: 1/7/2020
Duration: 30 months

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H2020-SPACE-2019 (Innovation action): 'Fostering Earth Observation market uptake thanks to natural and holistic access to added value data generated through cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies'

Initiation date: 02/12/2019
Duration: 30 months

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AQUACYCLE is set to bring an eco-innovative wastewater treatment technology that will consist of anaerobic digestion, constructed wetlands and solar treatment for the cost-effective treatment of urban wastewater with minimal costs of operation and maximum environmental benefits. The novel technology will be demonstrated in 3 pilot sites in Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia.

Initiation date: 01/09/2019
Duration: 36 months (01/09/2019 - 01/09/2022)

The AQUACYCLE project is funded and supported by the European Union through the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. For more information, please visit enicbcmed.eu, enicbcmed.eu/projects/aquacycle and www.iti.gr/iti/projects/AQUACYCLE.html.

H2020: E-SHAPE 'EUROGEOSS Showcase: Applications powered by Europe'. E-shape incubates earth observation services designed with and for users. It empowers Europe in the achievement of the sustainable development goals.

Initiation date: 01 / 05 / 2019
Duration: 48 months

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Project title: Intelligent & Automated systems for enabling the design, simulation and development of integrated processes and products
Duration: 36 months (01/01/2017 - 31/12/2019)

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Η2020: ECOPOTENTIAL 'Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits through Earth Observations'
Duration: 2015 – 2019

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ESA: EEOBSS 'Education in Earth Observation for Bulgarian Secondary Schools'
Duration: 2016 – 2018

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COST Action: TD1202 'Mapping and the Citizen Sensor'
Duration: 2013 – 2016

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FP7: BIO_SOS 'BIOdiversity multi-SOurce monitoring System: from Space TO Species'
Duration: 2010 – 2013

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