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Agriculture, FAS, Learning, Research Excellence
May 20, 2021

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 Farmer Advisory Services between May 24th and June 4th 2021. The Summer School will provide tailored training activities on adaptation to climate change to practitioners of the agricultural sector engaged in the Tunisian Farm Advisory System. These courses aim…

Agriculture, FAS, Learning, Research Excellence
May 14, 2021

FASTER joins the European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet)

The European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet) is a proactive alliance of EU funded projects dealing with Bioeconomy promotion, communication and support. The main goal is to maximise the efforts, increase knowledge sharing, networking, mutual learning, and coordinate joint activities. FASTER is proud to be part of this alliance and bring together different projects from the Mediterranean…

Agriculture, Business, Collaboration, Engagement, Innovation, Learning
May 12, 2021

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 Europe for Business, has been appointed as an Ambassador by the European Climate Pact Secretariat. The EU Climate Pact was launched in December 2020. Since then, it had provided a space for working together to tackle climate change and…

Agriculture, FAS, Learning, Research Excellence
April 30, 2021

Navigating through FASTER E-Learning Platform

FASTER is implementing an E-learning Platform to achieve its mission to reinforce the research excellence and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF on innovative land and water management to mitigate climate change and foster its implementation through Farm Advisory Systems (FAS) among all the interested stakeholders. The learners will have various courses covering different topics to…

Business, Collaboration, Learning, Research Excellence
April 9, 2021

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 and water management. It is doing so by supporting research on these topics and building capacity within the necessary stakeholders to achieve a sustainable solution. One of the main tools to reach this objective is through Specialized Training, where…

Learning, Research Excellence
March 12, 2021

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 the Living Lab activity to further the work in the FAS (Farm Advisory System) Factsheets. The objective of these documents is to transfer knowledge on measures to successfully achieve adaptation to climate change in the Tunisian agricultural sector. The…

Collaboration, Learning, Research Excellence
March 2, 2021

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, which sets out the way forward to prepare for the unavoidable effects of climate change. Climate change is taking a toll not only on the economy but also on the health and well-being of humans, who are increasingly suffering…

Collaboration, Learning, Research Excellence
March 1, 2021

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 this aim, FASTER partner Europe for Business has participated last February 4 in one of the online sessions of the 15th Danish Water Forum – Water Research Conference. The event included five different sessions in February, while three additional…

Learning, Research Excellence
March 1, 2021

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 the research and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF and associated Tunisian partners concerning innovative land and water management practices to face climate change. For this purpose, FASTER is launching its 2nd Specialized Training from March 22 to 26, 2021.…

Collaboration, Learning, Research Excellence
February 19, 2021

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 Integration (EMCEI-2021) and host its 2nd brokerage event in a special session titled “Living Labs as a tool for facing Climate Change effects on Water, Soil and Forestry resources“. The EMCEI conference will be held in Tunisia from June 10th to…

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