Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus has emerged as a useful concept to describe and address the complex and interrelated nature of our global resource systems, on which we depend to achieve different social, economic and environmental goals. Nexus is the approach needed to pursue sustainable development via an integrated use of resources to satisfy basic needs on a global scale.

The aim of the Task 2.2 is to identify ways and means to address societal challenges in accordance with the EU, MS and MPCs strategies. The present deliverable summarizes the process that lead EMEG Euro-Mediterranean Experts Group to develop a sound conceptual model and some paradigms for effective policy dialogue in research and cooperation. The main result of this activity is the formulation of a cross-cutting paradigm making key recommendations for a stronger policy dialogue on R&I in the Mediterranean Region.

In order to address the societal challenges of high quality affordable food, scarcity of resources and renewable energies in the Mediterranean region, the MED-SPRING project launched an on-line Open Consultation.

Food quality and security is at the base of the prosperous development and well-being of the Mediterranean region and it must be seen in a context of multiple dimensions and disciplines.

During its first meeting, EMEG identified research topics and niches that more than others would enhance market opportunities, having potential for new jobs, start-ups and winning public-private-societal partnerships in relation to the above societal challenges.