MedAqua II FP5 INCO-MED Start: 01.01.2003   Finish: 30.06.2004 Number of Partners: 8 Total Budget in kEuro: 60
Project site  Role of IT Consult: Project Coordinator   
The INCO Project Cluster for Water Application Projects in the South Mediterranean Countries  Summary:
The objectives of the MedAqua II project were to bring ongoing projects closer together and to provide a "one-stop-shop" of information about them and their activities in the Internet:
  1. A common web-site providing information about projects, announcing conferences and workshops planned by these projects, and providing all presentations from the MedAqua-II Conference in electronic form
  2. Organise a Joint Conference for all INCO-Med projects and interested organisations on both sides of the Mediterranean
Main results achieved:
  • The web-site www.MedAqua.org was redesigned and updated. Out of 68 past and ongoing INCO-MED projects in the water domain that are registered in the database of the site, 57 are described in detail. About 500 organisations from Europe and the South Mediterranean region are registered. One section of the home-page is reserved for announcements of conferences, projects or websites organised by other projects or related organisations.
  • The INCO-MED Conference Amman 2004 was held in June 2004 under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan of Jordan. It was a 2-day event that attracted about 100 participants.
 
   
BIOSOD FP5 CRAFT Start: 01.01.2003   Finish: 31.12.2004 Number of Partners: 7 Total Budget in kEuro: 1700
   Role of IT Consult: Subcontractor  Management 
Development of an Autonomous Biomass-Solar Thermally Driven Distillation System   Summary:

BIOSOD aims at the development of an innovative, stand-alone low-pressure thermal-distillation demonstration system powered by renewable energy sources (solar collectors and biomass). The biomass unit will operate as an auxiliary thermal energy source. The combined application of a biomass-solar thermal unit can be effective and energy efficient, assuring an uninterruptible, 24 hours per day fresh water production. Since the system is modular, can be easily adjusted to the end user’s needs, taking into consideration the availability of the existing renewable sources.

The development of a demonstration distillation plant powered by a combined power source (hybrid solar-biomass) will encourage the development of an innovative RES-technologies and will help European manufacturing organisations to maximise their business opportunities.

 
   
Hermes FP5 IST Start: 01.12.2001   Finish: 31.01.2004 Number of Partners: 6 Total Budget in kEuro: 450
   Role of IT Consult: Partner  Dissemination 
An Accompanying Measure for European Commision’s IT Nodes actions in the areas of Technologies for Business Processes, Electronic Commerce, Multimedia Content and Tools and Web Technologies  Summary:

The aim of HERMES was to accompany the IT Nodes activities of the EC in the Mediterranean Partner Countries  by developing demonstrators and organising workshops in the selected areas, i.e., Technologies for Business Processes and Smart Organisations, Electronic Commerce, Multimedia content and tools and WWW technologies.
Five Workshops and Training Sessions were held during the project, with a total number of trainees of 160:

1  METU Culture and Congress Centre, Ankara:  June 10 and 11, 2002
2  Royal Scientific Society, Amman: Amman Cultural Heritage 2002: Multimedia for Cultural Heritage, Sep 29 to Oct 2, 2002
3  National Technical University of Athens: July 10 and 11, 2003
4  In co-operation with the Academy of Scientific Research & Technology in Cairo: October 18and19, 2003
5  In co-operation with the Centre National d'Informatique in Tunis: January 19 and 20, 2004

 
   
Medressa II FP5 IST Start: 01.01.2001   Finish: 30.04.2004 Number of Partners: 12 Total Budget in kEuro: 990
Project site  Role of IT Consult: Project Coordinator   
Expanding Mediterranean IT Markets for Europe  Summary:

Medressa II was an accompanying measure in the Information Society Technologies Programme in the Framework Programme 5.
It was meant to accompany:

  • The ongoing EC activities on dissemination of RTD results
  • The International Co-operation within the IST Programme
  • The Euro-Mediterranean Information Society Steering Committee
  • The upcoming EUMEDIS Programme

The main tangible results of the Medressa II project were:

  • 26 Partnership Event in 7 South Mediterranean Countries
  • A web-site containing all presentations given at the events, all contact data of the companies and institutions involved and a collection of reports about the target countries.
  • The IT-Network and Brokerage Facility on the web where companies can register with their products or services.