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TREASURE-2 kickoff seminar – MARRAKECH – 4-8, June 2012

The “occidental” model of water management, designed in the last century without constraints of sustainability and dominated by the growing mobilization of all available resources (supply approach) is not suitable for current issues focusing particularly on the influence of pathogens and micropollutants on the environment. Among the many options given on behalf of integrated and sustainable territorial water (demand management, etc..), an interesting solution requires a paradigm shift of water use patterns by providing a resource management including recycling. From a vision in which water is released into the environment after use and the best treatment, the time has come to study technological solutions for its reuse, particularly in agriculture. In other words, the problem is to move from a treatment with discharge into the natural environment to an improved treatment with water reuse. This solution has the advantage of reducing significantly the pressure exerted on the water quality whose exploitation would be limited to the DWS. To meet this challenge, processes coupling the membrane techniques to biological process (notably the anaerobic digestion because its capability to produce valuable energy) conceived under both socio-economic and agronomic constraints appear appropriate.

The TREASURE network aims at integrating knowledge on the modelling, the control and the optimization of biological systems for the treatment and reuse of wastewaters in countries submitted to semi-arid climates under both socio-economical and agronomic constraints within the actual context of global changes. A special focus of the actual project concerns the integration of technical skills together with socio-economical and agronomic studies for the integrated solutions developed within the network to be evaluated and tested in practice in the partner’s countries and, as possible as it may be within the context of the actual research network, valorizing these proposed technologies with the help of industrial on site in parters from South.

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• Lundi 4 juin – Welcome 18h    Welcome of participants and diner at the hotel
• Mardi 5 juin – Presentation of the network –recall of objectives and partners 
  • 9h00 – 10h30           TREASURE 2 – presentation of the network
  • 10h30 – 10h45         Pause
  • 10h45 – 12h15        Overview of past activities vs ongoing work (Projects, PhDs and postdocs)
  • Meal
  • 13h45 – 15h15         Presentation of partners  : INRA/INRIA
  • 15h15 – 15h30         Pause
  • 15h30 – 16h15         Presentation of partners : CNEREE
  • 16h15 –17h30        Program of 2012 activities

• Mercredi 6 juin – Presentation of the partners (about 30 minutes + 15 minutes for questions)

• • 9h00 – 9h45              NRC, Egypt
  • 9h45 – 10h30           CBS, Tunisia
  • 10h30 – 10h45         Pause
  • 10h45 – 11h30         USC, Spain
  • 11h30 -12h15          Open discussions
  • Meal
  • 13h45 – 14h30         LAMSIN, Tunisia
  • 14h30-15h15            Univ. Tlemcen, Algeria
  • 15h15 – 15h30         Pause
  • 15h30 – 16h15         Univ. Patras, Greece
  • 16h15 – 17h30        Open discussions

• Jeudi 7 juin – Projects – calls for proposal – Management questions for the ongoing network 
  • 9h00 – 10h30           Calls for proposal / Possible cooperation/actions and prospective
  • 10h30 – 10h45         Pause
  • 10h45 – 12h15         Common work around possible proposals / Open discussions
  • Meal
  • 13h45 – 15h15        Subsidiaries – Calendar
  • 15h15 – 15h30         Pause
  • 15h30                       Visits

• Vendredi 8 juin –End of the seminar