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🌅👋We kick off the day with Fabrice Dentressangle, Officer of PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺, who presents the monitoring. 🎙️Then, as the lead partner Efthymia ALEXOPOULOU from #CRES presents the main goals and activities planned to achieve over the3️⃣9️⃣months of implementation!

This morning was about 🧑‍🌾farmers' engagement, 🫧water harvesting systems, 🌱novel cropping systems and identification of 🙌novel value chains. These are some of the topics discussed in the watermellon_primaproject Kick-off meeting organized in 🇬🇷Crete, Greece.

🌳Field visit to a carob tree plantation in 🇬🇷 Crete, Greece. 🏷️🌿Each tree is tagged to identify the different soil amendments being applied during this period, and with a 💧humidity sensor placed on each tree, we measure the soil moisture levels before and after application.

🟡Discover our related initiatives! 4CE-MED PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺 ℹ️4cemed.eu

👋 Last Friday, we met to discuss activities to engage the farming community and the stakeholders of the watermellon_primaproject PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺 project in the Novel Cropping Systems. 🔜 In the following months, many activities will be announced through the project channels 📢Stay tuned!

🤝Together, @WATERMELLON_PRIMA builds on the solid groundwork laid by @4CE_MED, advancing shared goals in sustainable agriculture and climate resilience. We're turning innovation into action across the Mediterranean. 💧🌾Università di Bologna INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España ICARDA PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺

Great job UNTWIST_H2020 ! 🌱 Having the sowing protocols available in multiple languages is a big step forward — so valuable for farmers and users across Europe. Accessibility = impact! 👏 #SustainableFarming #KnowledgeSharing #Agronomy

💧Water-smart farming in action! watermellon_primaproject partners met in Italy for a hands-on workshop on the Flexible Water Tank System. Ready to roll out in Greece & Algeria—boosting climate resilience across the Med! 🌍🌱

On May 8, during #Macfrut2025, watermellon_primaproject hosted a guided tour at the Acqua Campus demo area (CER & ANBI) to showcase innovative cropping systems tackling Mediterranean water scarcity. Great to unite farmers, researchers & partners for sustainable ag! 💧🌱PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺

Two EU-funded projects, 👉one mission: 🌱 Resilient, sustainable & profitable agriculture for Europe & the Mediterranean. 💧 #Water #harvesting #Climate #resilient #crops CARINA project PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺 EU CAP Network Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España Università di Bologna ICARDA

👥 MEET OUR PARTNERS! ✅The University of Skikda will assess an innovative water harvesting system in the Algerian🇩🇿 demo site under contrasting cropping systems. They will also design and co-assess the sustainability and resilience of the proposed innovative cropping systems.

👥MEET OUR PARTNERS! ✅Frederick Research Centre from 🇨🇾Cyprus leads the identification of Novel Value Chains and is responsible for the Sustainability and Profitability Analysis addressing LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) LCC (Life Cycle Costing) & SLCA (Social Life Cycle Assessment)

👥 MEET OUR PARTNERS! SRTA-City is our 🇪🇬Egyptian partner, expert on sustainable agriculture in water-deficient environments. They 'll be working on2️⃣demo sites: ➡️An Opuntia field with a drip irrigation system ➡️A Quinoa field, applying different organic fertilizers

👥 MEET OUR PARTNERS in 🇬🇷GREECE! ✅The Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving ΚΑΠΕ_CRES, coordinators of the project. ✅The Agricultural University of Athens ✅KOINSEP Agrima is a farmers’ advisor ✅Hellenic Association for Conservation Agriculture ✅ILIOS Consulting

👥 MEET OUR PARTNERS in 🇮🇹 ITALY! ✅ The Irrigation Consortium for the Emilia Romagna Canal (CER) ✅ Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREARicerca ✅ Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Università di Bologna ✅ Università di Catania Scuola Superiore

👥 MEET OUR PARTNERS! ✅ICU Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria, an international NGO headquartered in Rome and registered in 🇱🇧Lebanon, has an extensive track record in sustainable development, with a particular focus on rural development, water management, and agroecology throughout the Mediterranean region.