Activities 2006 - European Academy of Sciences and Arts

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES & ART
The Institute, represented as its chairman, provides advice to the members of this project
and to the governmental institutions involved. For more in formation please visit:
http://lima-water.de/
SIWMANET
Project objectives include but are not restricted to:
• development of viable partnerships at European level that would further facilitate the
research cooperation and knowledge transfer in the field of sustainable development,
with particular interest for sustainable water management
• correlation of the Romanian research for excellence activities with the European programs
for integrated water resources management, in the fields of policies, research,
knowledge transfer and dissemination development of the capacities of Romanian
researchers to participate as coordinators of work packages or programs in European
programs such as FP7 or any other EC/international programs.
For more in formation please contact Prof. Carmen Teodosiu, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University
of Iasi, Romania (cteo@ch.tuiasi.ro). Socio-ecological Water Management at ISOE
Project in statu nascendi
The Institute in cooperation with the Brussels Chapter of the Club of Rome is planning to
organize a workshop on “Gaja Engineering”. The expression “Gaja Engineering” stands for
planned and controlled intervention to shape on the large scale the earth system, the lithosphere,
the atmosphere, the biosphere and the interactions between them.
In the process of globalisation, a wide variety of large scale interventions into the earth
system are already in progress. For example, engineers react on the impacts of global warming
on our climatic by forced modification of weather conditions. Artificial rainfall may
solve problems of municipal, industrial and agricultural water supply, and it would prevent
outbreak of forest fire and the subsequent loss of value. But who decides when to apply
such an innovative technology, and what will the political, economic, social and ecological
side effects be. Who will take responsibility, and how may risks be managed?
During the workshop such interventions will serve as cases in the discussion about potential
management and control means. Whoever is interested in participating in the workshop
is welcomed to sign up.
Banz II projects cancelled
Unfortunately, the workshop on “Sustainable Development: The importance of education
and training for promoting sustainable development” had to be cancelled because of the
lack of response to the status papers prepared by some of the participants.
Cooperations
WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
The Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WSSTP) is one of the technology
platforms that are set up within the European Environmental Technology Action Plan
(ETAP) that was adopted by the European Commission in 2004. It is a European initiative,
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