PATH4MED – Demonstrating innovative pathways addressing water and soil pollution in the Mediterranean Agro-Hydro-System

The overall goal of Path4Med is to pave clear pathways towards zero water and soil pollution in the agro-hydro-system of the Mediterranean Sea basin through an innovative triple bottom line approach achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability to ensure human well-being and ecosystems functioning. Path4Med is a multi-actor and participatory Innovation Action project composed of scientific experts in public institutions, solutions and services providers in private companies, farmers’ associations and land managers, and various stakeholders (technology providers, recipients, consumers, facilitators, water user associations, citizens etc.) and will achieve its objectives through co-learning and co-development to maximise the size, the importance, and the endurance of its impact long after the project completion. A set of 7 integrated, multisite, multiscale, and multidisciplinary Demonstration Groups (DGs) involving 11 Demonstration Sites (DS) that will be co-designed, implemented, and operated in critical regions in the Mediterranean and throughout Europe using the Living Labs approach and that will act as innovation incubators, ensuring the relevance and the pertinence of the project outcomes to the specific needs of all involved actors and will maximize the impact and the exploitation potential of the obtained results. Well-designed clustering activities also play a key role in forming synergies with the relative projects funded under the soil mission, the ocean and water mission, and biobased economy calls with emphasis on replicating Path4Med solutions to the Living Labs (LLs) and demo-sites developed in these projects or to integrate our demo-sites to existing LLs and to utilize solutions developed in these projects in our integrated approach. Clustering activities and an open call for the financial support to third parties will allow the engagement of a big number (at least five) of associated regions replicating and upscaling the solutions developed within Path4Med all around the Mediterranean and in other European seas facing similar problems.

UALG Tasks WP2:

1. A comprehensive review report on policies, institutions, and markets

2. Impact assessment report of target technologies and innovation

 

Partner institutions: Agricultural University of Athens (Lead Partner) (Greece); Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (Norway); Aarhus University (Denmark); National Inland Fisheries Research Institute (Poland); Extra Red (Italy); Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (Portugal); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece); EXEOLAB (Italy); University of Bayreuth (Germany); ISA-University of Lisbon (Portugal); Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – Inland Waters (Greece); Wageningen University – Department of Environmental Sciences (Netherlands); Public University of Navarra (Spain); BioEast Hub CR (Czechia); Neuropublic SA (Greece); National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine); University of Algarve (Portugal); Cukurova University (Turkey); AgroTech Innovations Ltd (Cyprus); People in Focus (Albania); Ministry of Agriculture Rural Development and Environment (Cyprus); Climate Research Foundation (Spain); Foodscale Hub (Greece); Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (France); GAL Percorsi (Italy); and Agricircle (Associate Partner) (Switzerland)

CinTurs researcher(s): Ana Pego (coordinator UAlg)

Budget UAlg: 167 000€

Funding institution(s): EU by Horizon Europe programme

Period: 2024-2027

 

 

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