ADIRA Workshop on Desalination Powered by Renewable Energy

Workshop organised by the Agricultural University of Athens
Within the framework of the MEDA Water Programme

ADIRA WORKSHOP Invitation

As the availability of clean water is gradually becoming a major issue in many countries, measures of
water conservation, reuse and desalination appear as the most important first step of defence
against the upcoming shortages.
The MEDA Water Programme of the European Union, consisting of a number of water related
projects, is covering many relevant subjects with main focus in regions around the Mediterranean,
where water problems are expected to be significant.
For many years, the ADIRA project, has studied in depth the engineering and economics of brackish
and sea water desalination and has lately installed a number of small autonomous water desalination
units, operating on solar energy (mainly PV), in Morocco, Turkey, Jordan and Cyprus.
On Wednesday, the 28th of May, the ADIRA experts will present and discuss their experiences in a
WORKSHOP, which will be attended by a large number of invited Water Desalination experts,
scientists, decision makers, investors and in general actors and stakeholders, who will actively
participate in the process by submitting their knowledge and expertise.
The ADIRA WORKSHOP is taking place within the framework of the 4th European PV Hybrid & Mini
Grid Conference and will be the first event to take place in the National Bank Conference Centre, in
Athens (Glyfada).
All attendants will have free entry and complimentary copies of the ADIRA HANDBOOK© and
AUDESSY© evaluation software.

WEDNESDAY 28th of May 2008, 15:00

NATIONAL BANK Training and Conference Centre, Poseidonos 41 – 43, 166 75 Glyfada, Greece
Tel. +30 210 8917100, Fax. +30 210 8917177, www.ekete.gr, e-mail: info@ekete.gr

REGISTRATIONS: www.adira.gr
INFORMATION: Ms Loukia Geronikolou, Tel. +30 210 5294046, +30 210 5294762, e-mail: gelou@aua.gr

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Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) Sapiens Productions and Zer0-M proudly present

“Waste not Waste”

Premiere on BBC World has taken place on:

Friday 25th Jan - 20:30 (GMT)
with repeats at 10:30 on Monday, 15:30 on Tuesday, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday.

We would appreciate your feedback on the film ! Please visit: http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ContactUsDepartments.aspx

As a pre-taster we have attached a small PDF article about the making of the film written by its director/producer Joshka Wessels. See also www.tve.org/earthreport for more background information about the film and various interesting internet links.

For more detailed information about the complete series of 13 Earth Reports this year see TVE's Press Release at http://www.tve.org/news/doc.cfm?aid=1867







The production of  “Waste not Waste” was generously supported by the EU-MEDA Water Programme:
Euro-Mediterranean Regional Water Programme for Local Water Management

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Technological Demonstration Centers:

keep updated with realisations and monitoring results

go to the TDC webpage here

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Supporting engineers to include the users' perspective when inventing, constructing and implementing water treatment technologies

Ph.D. Thesis of Dipl. Psych. Friederike Arnold

Funded by the HANS-SAUER-FOUNDATION

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Harald A. Mieg, Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer, Dipl.Psych. Christian Hoffmann

Starting point: In order to successfully implement a technology, its technical functioning is a necessary condition. But it is not at all sufficient: As long as the users don't need the technology, or it is too expensive for them, or they don't know how to use it, the project is doomed to fail. Also, inadequate user behaviour may drastically reduce the lifetime of a technology. Thus the necessity arises to include the users from the beginning in the process of developing and implementing ["technology mediation"].

Target group: Engineers developing water treatment technologies for the application in threshold countries

Question: How can these engineers be supported in considering the users' perspective in the whole developing and implementing process?

Expected Results: Practical guidelines, workshop concepts and further tools for engineers and project managers.

Different activities are planned in cooperation with Zer0-M such as conducting expert interviews with the project partners, questioning the participants of the courses and socio-scientifically evaluating one of the pilot projects.

Contact Information

Dipl. Psych. Friederike Arnold

Mail: Humboldt-Universität, Geographisches Institut, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-5394

E-Mail: friederike.arnold@geo.hu-berlin.de

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Press events about the MEDA WATER CONFERENCE IN MARRAKECH

Ouverture à Marrakech de la 1ère conférence internationale "Medawater"
(8/6/2006)