med solutions...siena: march 5-6, 2015 ! theme: “sustainable food systems in the mediterranean...
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Angelo Riccaboni Rector, University of Siena CHINA SDSN Meeting, Beijing, May 17, 2014
MED Solutions The UN SDSN Center for the Mediterranean
} Under the umbrella of UN SDSN, the University of Siena has become the first Regional SDSN Center, named MED Solutions (www.medsolutions.unisi.it)
} MED Solutions acts as a regional hub and coordinates the activities of a network of universities, research centers and businesses interested in identifying and promoting SDS in the Mediterranean Region
} Why a Mediterranean Network? } Common history } Common environment } Common future
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MED Solutions The UN SDSN Center for the Mediterranean
Common challenges
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25 Partners from the Mediterranean region University of Siena – Italy Center for Agricultural Economic Research – Republic of Cyprus Politecnico di Bari – Italy Consorzio IPASS Scarl – Italy Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – Italy The Cyprus Institute – Republic of Cyprus Università degli Studi di Sassari – Italy Bocconi University – Italy Consorzio Arca – Italy Fispmed Onlus – Italy Venice International University – Italy Laboratoire d’Excellence OT-Med – France Universita degli studi di Salerno (UniSa) – Italy UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union – Italy Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial I Pública – Spain Water and Environmental Studies Institute – Palestine OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica - Sperimentale) - Italy University of Ferrara – Italy Fondazione Achille Sclavo – Italy Boğaziçi University – Turkey Istanbul University – Turkey Institut Sup. des Sciences et Tech. de l’Environnement - Tunisia
Coordination • We will enhance network
dynamics and reach out to new members valuing their expertise
Education and Research • We will support
sustainable development education and research
Policy • We will engage
strategically in policy environments
SDGs • We will participate in
the debate on SDGs
Communication • We will enhance visibility
and funding opportunities
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Key Strategic Aims
} The First Siena Conference was attended by 157 participants from 29 countries, 19 of which from the Mediterranean.
} Pollution in the Mediterranean sea } Energy challenges in the MED region } The role of business for sustainability } Vaccines against poverty } Presentation of SDS from researchers and students
} 38 solutions collected and 5 solutions selected
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First Conference - July 3-5, 2013
} By scholars: } Flagship solution: PlasticBusters (Cristina Fossi) 1. Sustainability Compass – guide for projects to reduce ecological deficit
and improve human development (Alessandro Galli) 2. Applications of Integrated Agricultural Management Framework in
Underdeveloped Poor Locations (Marwan Haddad) 3. Innovative technique for sea bed restoration by Posidonia oceanica
reforestation using a biodegrade support (Silvana Di Bono)
} By students: 1. Voluntary market for Natural Capital in Sardinia (IT): Payments for
certified Ecosystem Services between public sellers and private buyers by the Grighine Forest (Matilde Silvia Schirru)
2. Albedo control and cool roofs as a strategy to mitigate Global Warming during the economic crisis (Valentina Coccia)
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First Conference - July 3-5, 2013: Selected Solutions
PlasticBusters: 2013-14 in the Pelagos Sanctuary and in the Adriatic Sea
DIRECT MONITORING OF
MACRO- AND MICRO-DEBRIS
IN THE PELAGOS
SANCTUARY AND IN THE
ADRIATIC SEA 25 - 30 September 2013 Pelagos Sanctuary, 24 - 31 May 2014, Adriatic Sea
Amerigo Vespucci Italian Navy
Mediterranea Mediterranean Expedition
Second MED Solutions Conference Siena: March 5-6, 2015
} Theme: “Sustainable Food Systems in the Mediterranean area”
Why Food? } Expo Milan, May 1, 2015 – “Feeding the Planet.
Energy for life” } Initiative Art. 185 (P.R.I.M.A) Partnership in
Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area 8
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PRIMA Partnership in Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area:
} Define a long term sustainable strategy for research and innovation for the Euro-Mediterranean Area } The development of PRIMA has its base on a Joint Action
Plan (JAP), addressing the Grand Challenges of the Mediterranean Region.
} Thematic Focus: Food and Water Resources
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The objectives of P.R.I.M.A. } Within the framework of a co-financed, co-designed and
co-owned partnership, move forward the agenda for:
} scientific integration of national research programmes financed by national sources, which can be integrated at transnational level;
} management integration based on a smart and inclusive governance;
} financial integration among different national funds.
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The Grand Convergence 2035 } Lancet Commission Report: “Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation” – presented at the UN in January 2014
} the world has the technological and financial capacity to eliminate inequality across countries in the area of health
} within the next 20 years, it is possible to reduce or eliminate the gap between the poorest and poor countries reaching what the report refers to as the Grand Convergence
} we have collectively reached the capacity to reduce avoidable deaths by infections and maternal and child mortality in all countries
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