The Euro-Mediterranean Observatories Meeting on Indicators was organized on the 5th of November in Marseille (France), to gather Euro-Mediterranean observatories to discuss and agree a possible set of 10 indicators of water quality monitoring (priory suggested by the participating observatories in their own field of action), as agreed in Beirut during the 2nd EuroMed Observatories Networking Meeting.
Internationalization and multi-polarization of research open a critical avenue to ’observatories’ that describe the many aspects of global challenges, which need to be addressed with interdisciplinary teams and a long-term vision. The Mediterranean Observatories are now sufficiently numerous to create a diversified and heterogeneous institutional landscape. These differences need to be respected, and complementarities highlighted. They are both the result of thematic focus and institutional history.
This document is related to the identification of Euro-Mediterranean thematic observatories relevant to policy and cooperation monitoring and monitoring of trends & indicators in relation to the societal challenges addressed by MEDSPRING: resource efficiency, high quality affordable food and energy.
In order to meet the demand of giving support to the Observatories in the Mediterranean region, one of the aims of MEDSPRING is to explore and facilitate the creation of "a dialogue/cooperation Platform" of Euro-Mediterranean observatories linking, describing and analyzing the research and innovation potential in the region, to support monitoring policy development and cooperation in areas of mutual interests and needs, with emphasis on the societal challenges addressed by MedSpring “Resource Efficiency”, High Quality Affordable Food”, “Energy” as well as other related ch
In order to have a better view of these different monitoring initiatives we have designed a survey that examines the objectives, functionality and potentials of the observatories. This deliverable aims at providing a global and comprehensive analysis of Euro-Mediterranean observatories landscape. For this reason the survey compares observatories that exist in various areas (most if not all being related to environmental challenges).
This document is related to the identification of Euro-Mediterranean thematic observatories relevant to policy and cooperation monitoring and monitoring of trends & indicators in relation to the societal challenges addressed by MEDSPRING: resource efficiency, high quality affordable food and energy.
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