Water2Adapt Final Events: Italian Capacity Building Workshop, Project final workshop, International Dialogue and EU Researchers’ Night

TENTATIVE SCHEDULED

Wednesday September 26, 2012

Italian Capacity Building workshop – FEEM, San Giorgio Island, Venice

Participants: 10-15 including regional territorial authorities, river basin authorities, nature protection agency, academics, civil protection agency, etc.  
Language: Italian
Scope: This event will be connected to the preparation of the strategy for climate adaptation at the river basin scale. 
Participants: Po River Basin Authority, ARPA, regional administrations, CdB, INEA, Civil Protection Agency, ISTAT, ISPRA, water utilities, National Authority for Energy and Gas

Preliminary agenda: 
10:00 – 10:30     Registration and welcome coffee
10:30 – 11:00     Welcome and scope of the event 
11:00 – 13:00     Presentation of the scope and  results of the Water2Adapt project – the Italian case study 
13:00 – 14:00     Lunch 
14:00 – 16:00     National Adaptation strategy, the River Basin District Perspective 
16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break 
16:30 – 18:00     Panel discussion

Thursday September 27, 2012

Water2Adapt Final workshop – FEEM, San Giorgio Island, Venice

Participants: 10-15 among the project partners and the advisory board members
Language: English 
Scope: Review of the project’s outputs. Dissemination and policy uptake. Joint publications. Further research collaborations.

Preliminary agenda: 
08:30 – 09:00     Registration 
09:00 – 09:10     Welcome and scope of the event
09:10 – 10:00     Synthesis of the project’s achievements and outcomes
                              Jaroslav Mysiak, Coordinator of the Project, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei         
10:00 – 11:00     Panel discussion – the Advisory Board members
11:00 – 11:30     Coffee break 
11:30 – 12:15     Outlook for the further and follow-up research, policy implementability of the results. 
12:15 – 12:30     Conclusions 
12:30 – 13:00     Transfer to the Ca’Foscari University in Dorsoduro

Day 1: International conference “Dialogue on water resources from research to livelihood impacts: Moving towards the implementation of WWF2012 and Rio+20 principles and outcomes in the Mediterranean Area” – Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 12:30 – 14:00     Registration of participants - Light lunch
                               Filling in of questionnaires for brainstorming to those who have not filled it in yet. 

14:00 – 14:15     Welcome address and introduction to the workshop 
                               Carlo Carraro - President of Cà Foscari University of Venice 
                               Elisabetta Belloni - Director General Italian Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

14:15 - 15:45      Setting the scene
                              Chair: Pasquale Steduto - Principal Office, Deputy Director, NRL Water Unit FAO 
14:15 – 14:45     Water security in the Mediterranean
                               X Y from Southern Med (TBD)
14:45 – 15:15      University Cooperation promoting strategies for natural disasters mitigation 
                               Massimo Caneva - MD Coordinator of University Cooperation of Italian Cooperation, Ministry                                of Foreign Affairs
15:15 – 15:45      Measures and actions against drought in southern Europe and the Mediterranean
                               Jaroslav Mysiak – Water2Adapt Coordinator and Senior Researcher at FEEM
15:45 – 16:00     Coffee break
16:00 – 18:30:    Brainstorming session on water policies and measures to deal with water scarcity, in a                                changing Mediterranean
                               Chair: Jaroslav Mysiak – Senior Researcher at FEEM
16:00 – 17:30:    A sequence of issues will be raised by facilitators
17:30 – 17:45      Briefing around the main ideas and concepts emerged during the discussions 
17:45 – 18:30     General discussions on outputs from the groups facilitated by discussants 
19:30     Social dinner at Ca’ Foscari University

Friday September 28, 2012

Day 2: International conference “Dialogue on water resources from research to livelihood impacts: Moving towards the implementation of WWF2012 and Rio+20 principles and outcomes in the Mediterranean Area” – Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

08:30 – 09:00     Light breakfast
09:00 – 09:30     Implementing solutions for water security and sustainable development in the                                Mediterranean, with focus on food. 
                               Carlo Giupponi - ICARUS Project Coordinator, Professor at Ca’ Foscari University and                                Senior Researcher at CMCC
09:30 – 12:00     Brainstorming session on transferring and implementing technical knowledge for water                                security and food production in the Mediterranean Basin
                               Chair: C. Giupponi - ICARUS Project Coordinator, Professor at Ca’ Foscari University and                                Senior Researcher at CMCC
9:30 – 11:00        A sequence of issues will be raised by facilitators
11:00 – 11:20     Coffee break
11:20 – 11:30      Briefing around the main ideas and concepts emerged during the discussions 
11:30 – 12:00     General discussion on outputs from the groups facilitated by discussants 
12:00 – 12:30     Round table “Going Beyond IWRM through IWRM” Presentation of questionnaire results and                                of the draft conference report and perspectives for future collaboration
                               M. Caneva, C. Giupponi, J. Mysiak, P. Steduto, Invitees from South Med TBD
12:30 – 13:00     Concluding remarks
                               Carlo Carraro - President of Cà Foscari University of Venice 
                               Elisabetta Belloni - Director General Italian Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs