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Enhancing the potential of FASTER’s Capacity Building Initiatives: lessons learnt and future prospects

FASTER aims at educating on adaptation to climate change in the management of natural resources. Over the…
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FASTER Guidelines on Future Research

FASTER addresses the specific challenges of climate adaptation, aiming at improving the overall scientific and innovation…
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The pinnacle of a 3-year journey towards climate neutrality: A review of the FASTER Final Conference

📅 20 October 2021📍 Hybrid Event Last Thursday, October 20th, the FASTER project celebrated its long-awaited…
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FASTER’S 6th Steering Committee

📅25 October 2021📍 Online Meeting Last monday, FASTER’s 6th and last Steering Committee took place. This online…
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Celebrating a new EU Climate Pact Ambassador among the FASTER project partners

After the appointment, last Msy, of our partner Leonardo Piccinetti, we are excited to announce that…
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From Twinning to Excellence Hub for Tunisian Farm Advisory System: FASTER final conference

📅20 October 2021📍 Hybrid Event After three exciting years of hard work and dedication, FASTER is…
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BIOEAST Foresight Conference: Sharing strategies to achieve climate neutrality

📅27 September 2021📍 Online Meeting During its 3 years of project, FASTER has been working hand…
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Empowering Mediterranean Women Through Research Excellence

Today's society is facing increasingly complex global challenges, such as climate change and the search for…
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Flash News: 2021 FASTER Summer School Key Learnings

This past May, FASTER hosted a two-week Summer School program that allowed participants to engage in…
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Seeking Jobs or Networking Opportunities on FAS and Climate Change? Meet the FASTER Excellence Hub

As part of FASTER’s commitment to reinforce the research and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF and…
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Supporting INRGREF in strengthening its’ potential: two stakeholder events provide insights for the future

The H2020 project FASTER, Farmers’ Adaptation and Sustainability in Tunisia through Excellence in Research, aims to…
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Living labs: a tool for facing climate change effects on water, soil and forestry resources

📅11 June 2021📍 Online Event Last June 11th, FASTER presented its 2nd Brokerage event online in…
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How can Research & Innovation help achieve climate neutrality?

Next 6 and 7 July 2021, the European Commission and the European Research Executive Agency (REA)…
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Climate Outreach: Communicating climate change in Tunisia, Egypt & Mauritania – with lessons for North Africa & Levant region

📅24 June 2021📍 Online Event Last week, June 24th, Climate Outreach presented their report “Communicating climate…
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Open Research Europe: Towards A Global Scientific Collaboration

OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE (ORE) is an open publishing platform for researchers created within the Horizon 2020…
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Networking and sharing of FASTER good practices in an international scenario

📅20 May 2021📍 Online Event Our project coordinator Sihem Jebari (INRGREF), represented the FASTER project at…
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Flash News: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world

The European Commission launched on May 18th a Communication on the Global Approach to Research and…
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FASTER’s Living Lab in practice: Summer School for Farmer Advisory Services agents of change

In the frame of its Living Lab process, FASTER will be organising a Summer School for…
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FASTER joins the European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet)

The European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet) is a proactive alliance of EU funded projects dealing with Bioeconomy…
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FASTER’s step forward to prevent climate change: Appointment as EU Climate Pact Ambassador

We are excited to announce that Mr Leonardo Piccinetti, member of FASTER and Managing Director of …
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Navigating through FASTER E-Learning Platform

FASTER is implementing an E-learning Platform to achieve its mission to reinforce the research excellence and…
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Specialized Training Program: a Milestone in FASTER Roadmap to Capacity Building

The FASTER project focuses all of its efforts on promoting adaptation to climate change in land…
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FASTER’s environmental adaptation: Workshop on FAS Living Lab factsheets

From March 3rd to March 5th, FASTER held a Co-Creation workshop in Tabarka as part of…
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New smarter, faster and systemic EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change

The European Commission adopted on February 24th a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change,…
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Bringing the values of Research Excellence to the 15th DWF Water Research Conference

One of the expected impacts of the FASTER project is to improve water research. Related to…
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Join the 2nd FASTER Specialized Training on climate change effects on water and land management in the Mediterranean

📅 22-26 March 2021📍 Online Activity One of the FASTER project's main objectives is to reinforce…
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Participate in the FASTER call for abstracts and have the opportunity to be considered for publication in Springer

📅Deadline for submission: 10 March 2021   FASTER will participate in the 3rd Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental…
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INRGREF researcher honoured prize of excellence in the “6th International Congress of Plant and Animal Biodiversity – CIBVA6- 2020”

📅 25 December 2020 FASTER aims to develop a knowledge transfer framework, to produce excellent scientific…
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Yielding results from learnt skills at FASTER: the MEDLENTISK PROJECT

A case of success through our activities aimed at promoting Research Excellence FASTER aims to reinforce…
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Sharing knowledge on wastewater reuse: Europe for Business partners with Water Europe

This week our partner Europe for Business attended the online event organised by Water Europe. The…
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FASTER researchers attended the second edition of the Researchers’ Night “GREEN NIGHT”

Promoting the interactive and the participatory aspects of the socio-economic layer as well as its essential…
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Research Excellence to boost Innovation in the rural areas

Last Friday November 20th, the Mediterranean Week of Economic Leaders, MedaWeek Barcelona, celebrated its 14th edition.…
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FASTER researchers collaborate on First Mediterranean Assessment Report

Our Project Coordinator Dr Sihem Jebari (INRGREF) and our partner researcher Dr Enrique Doblas (CREAF) have…
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FAS Living Lab Factsheets co-creation: the virtual workshop

Last week, FASTER Work Package 3 online workshop “Creation of a Living Lab working groups kick-off”…
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FASTER lunches 1st specialized training program

Last week, from the 2nd to the 6th of November, FASTER held an online event, its…
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FASTER takes part in AfriAlliance’s Webinar

FASTER has recently taken part in AfriAlliance’s project webinar on ‘How to create Sustainable Communities of…
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FASTER’S 4th Steering Committee

📅23 October 2020📍 Online Meeting Last Friday 23rd of October FASTER’s 4th Steering Committee took place.…
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FASTER takes part in the European Research and Innovation Days

Bringing stakeholders together to shape future research and innovation policy 📅 22-24 September 2020📍 Online Activity…
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Iberian Congress on Water Management and Planning

Presenting the FASTER Living Lab 📅3-9 September 2020📍 Online Activity Last week, the 11th edition of…
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Together, we are stronger against COVID-19

FASTER supports the EU Coronavirus Global Response On May 4, the European Union, together with its…
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Learn and train yourself with the upcoming FASTER E-learning Platform

Get access to 100+ hours of knowledge in one place! As part of its objectives of…
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Training the young minds of Tunisia on the effects of climate change

📅 7 March 2020📍 Borj Touil region , Tunisia As part of World Water Day, the…
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Postponement of the 1st Faster Spring School and Living Lab Workshop

Due to the international scope of COVID-19, the FASTER project decided to postpone its activities initially…
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Faster Living Lab preparatory meeting

Participants discussed the selection of topics of interest for the realization of a set of factsheets…
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(POSTPONED) 1st Faster Spring School for Farmer Advisory Services Agents of Change

FASTER organises its Spring School Program on Farmer Advisory Services. Two Spring Schools will be held…
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Publish in the MDPI open-access journal “Sustainability”

Participate in #ResearchExcellence The MDPI open-access journal is releasing a special issue focused on “Sustainable Applications…
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FASTER shares about its project with GIZ Palestinian Experts

Within the context of a study trip to Tunisia by a delegation of Palestinian experts from…
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Second step of Capacity Building, Steering Committee and Living Lab Workshop: busy week for FASTER

A new eventful week for the FASTER project partners: October 2019 kicked off with the organization…
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Two more visits in 2019 for the FASTER Mobility Programme

FASTER continued the first year of its Mobility Programme with two more staff exchanges at CREAF…
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Grow your research excellence with FASTER Open Call

Five brand new training courses with international lecturers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRdPQZj8ML4 One of the main goals of the…
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First visits for the FASTER Mobility programme

FASTER launched the first year of its Mobility Programme in April with three different INRGREF students…
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FASTER holds a week of meetings, trainings and informative sessions

The first week of April 2019 has been intense for the project FASTER, with the organization…
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Multidisciplinary trainings and capacity-building

Governments, research centers, industries and communities have a central role in tackling societal challenges such as…
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FASTER Introductory Workshop

As part of the FASTER “Farmers' Adaptation and Sustainability in Tunisia through Excellence in Research” project,…
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Farmers planting Euro-MED research future

On 29-30 November 2018, the National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry (INRGREF) and…
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