RSS, founded in 1999, is one of the leading earth observation companies in Germany, specializing in satellite image processing and interpretation, environmental monitoring, application of geographical information systems and development of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. 

UPV is a public higher-education institution. The Group of Hydrogeology is part of the Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering and has long experience in subsurface resources analysis and modelling. The group has developed innovative techniques for the characterization and modelling of various aquifers systems. UPV has strong expertise in numerical modelling, data-driven analysis and groundwater assessment and management, required skills to meet OurMED targets. 

Role: UPV will be in charge of the data management and the  development of a robust methodology using multi-objective functions, and will be managing the spanish demosite.

IDRICA was created in 2019 as a spin-off of Global Omnium, a water utility with more than 130 years of experience, based in Valencia, Spain, which manages the water service in more than 400 municipalities, offering services to 4 million people. IDRICA is now a leading actor in the water sector, offering digital solutions for the management of water-related processes and services. 

Role: IDRICA will be in charge of the digitalisation of the project demo sites  

SEMIDE is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership initiated by a Ministerial conference on fresh water in 1996. SEMIDE provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the 43 Euro Mediterranean countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).

Role: SEMIDE is leader the leader  of WP8 “Impact, engagement and sustainability”

Tour du Valat (TdV) is a non-profit organization and research institute for the Conservation of MED Wetlands with some 70 staff and visiting scientists. TdV’s mission is to halt and reverse the destruction and degradation of MED wetlands and their natural resources, adopting the Mediterranean Wetlands Strategy (Venice, June 1996).

Role: Tdv is the leader of WP7 “Upscaling water-related Ecosystems” and will be managing the Mediterranean demosite.

The School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at TUC has an excellent international reputation in research. It has developed important expertise regarding coastal groundwater resources management in relation with numerical modelling activities and GIS tools.

Role: TUC is the leader of  WP2 “  Demonstration sites, statuses, and needs”, and will be managing the greek demosite;

UNIPR belongs to the Department of Engineering and Architecture. The research group has conducted studies on: i) climate change ii) groundwater hydrology iii) numerical modelling iv) parameter estimation, v) identification of source location and release history of contaminant spills in aquifers vi) application of machine learning approaches to hydrology and groundwater topics.

Role: UNIPR is the leader of WP4 “Co-design of multi-sectoral solutions”

UNISS is a public university founded over 450 years ago and includes academic staff of some 640 researchers and professors. The Desertification Research Centre (NRD-UNISS) is an interdisciplinary centre founded in 2000 focusing on sustainable water resources management, integrated management of coastal areas; desertification and the recovery of degraded lands; adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change; socio-economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas of Africa and Latin America and participatory approaches and engagement of multi-stakeholder platforms.

Role: UNISS will be in charge of reinforcing multi-stakeholders dialogue and sustaining the social learning process, and will be managing the italian demosite.

UNINA is a public university in Naples, Italy. Established in 1224, it is the oldest public university in the world founded by the head of a state, and is now organized into 26 departments. Noted for being the world's oldest state-funded university and one of the world's ten oldest universities in continuous operation, it is also believed to be the oldest secular or non-sectarian state university in the world. The department UNINA-DICEA covers a wide spectrum of research including hydrological modelling, NbS, image processing, river monitoring, optimization in water management, and artificial intelligence. 

Role: UNINA is the leader of WP5 “Development of tailored Nature-based Solutions”

The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) is an independent national organization devoted to the conservation of Jordan's natural resources. RSCN was established in 1966 with His Majesty the late King Hussein as the Honorary President. RSCN is the first and the largest established NGO in Jordan. It is one of the few national organizations in the Middle East to be granted the mandate to protect the Kingdom’s biodiversity. It gained a wide global fame for its pioneering work in integrating nature conservation with socio-economic development.

Role: RSCN will be in charge of the analysis of  both enabling factors and potential barriers toward the implementation of NbS, and will be managing the jordanian demaosite.

LPM is a Moroccan NGO founded in 2017 whose main mission is the conservation of nature and protection of the environment. Through its partnership with WWF MED North Africa in Morocco, LPM designs and implements its conservation program through large-scale field projects focused on the protection, conservation and restoration of freshwater, wetlands and natural habitats.

Role: LPM will be in charge of the establishment of systemic scientific knowledge for proper water management, and will be managing the moroccan demosite.

AGRI is a “seal of excellence” (EU-H2020) and EUREKA Artificial Intelligence Label company and has strong expertise in vegetation/crop water stress management in particular for Water and Environmental Smart Agriculture footprints. AGRI has an international experience dealing with different agriculture and water quality projects in Europe, Africa and America.

Role: AGRI is the leader of WP6 “ Innovative technologies and DSS” and will be managing the portuguese demosite.

ESIM is one of the main Tunisian institutions of education, research and technological transfer, in the field of water resources and agricultural mechanization. The educational curricula hosted by ESIM are engineering, master and doctoral degree, mainly related to water quantity and quality and climate change adaptation. 

Role:  ESIM will be in charge of Demo site characterisation and requirements elicitation, and will be managing the Tunisian demosite.

BU is one of the leading higher-education institutions in Turkey. The principal areas of research of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IESc) are socio-ecological sustainability assessment, pollution monitoring and modelling, water and wastewater treatment technologies, urban waste management, renewable energy, and molecular and microbial ecology and system dynamics modelling of social and ecological systems, environmental governance and ecological economics.

Role: BU is the leader of WP3 “Water and ecosystems governance” and will be managing the Turkish demosite.