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MedYWat:
How to keep youth success going?

MedYWat platform aims to form future

water leaders to achieve the optimum
Success on Mediterranean Water
Secure Management !
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MedYWat:
How to keep youth success going?
Youth expertise
and innovation MedYWat platform aims to form future
water leaders to achieve the optimum
Success on Mediterranean Water
MedYWat Secure Management !
CMI
Regional and
International Opportunities and
Water institutions challenges
and governments
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71% of the Earth surface is Water

Themes in which you want to innovate and invest!

● Water Education
● Water and Migration
● Water treatment and Reuse Regional and International
● Planning and Management Partners support to
● Sustainable Blue Growth Innovation implement youth
● Water Governance innovations!
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MedYWat: Sustainable Blue Growth Innovation

Unique opportunity !
Blue Growth is the European Commission’s initiative → shared vision for Mediterranean
area to further “mindfully harness” the potential of the BLUEs (oceans, seas, coasts)

➢ The true potential of the ‘Blue Economy’, defined as all

the economic sectors which have a direct or indirect
link to the ocean, can only be realised if our ocean’s
health is secured.
➢ We need to restore, protect and sustainably manage
ocean assets in order to realise the ocean’s potential
to support human development into the future.
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MedYWat: Sustainable Blue Growth Innovation

Goals !
The goals of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth:

➢ Develop sectors with high potential for sustainable jobs and economic growth: aquaculture,
biotechnology, etc..

➢ Essential components to provide knowledge, legal certainty and security in the blue economy:
marine knowledge, ocean literacy, maritime spatial planning, etc...

➢ Sea basin strategies to ensure tailor-made measures and to foster cooperation between countries:
science diplomacy, exchange programs, etc...
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MedYWat’s role in SBG development !

● The Mediterranean Sea is bounded by over 20 countries
● Cooperation is essential to improve cooperation and governance
● Planning sustainable growth on both Northern and Southern Mediterranean countries

MedYWat
SBG experts Team Partnership
STEP 1 STEP 3

STEP 2
SBG MOOC Building Project IMPLEMENTATION
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MedYWat SBG MOOC !

Open Access;
Institutional partners;
Confirmed Certification.
Access

Mediterranean Basin; MedYWat SBG Dissemination;

Ecosystem Pollution; Ma SBG Strengthening
Coastal Management professional skills;

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MOOC
in
and climate change; Form Future Young

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Leaders in SBG
To
Land waters impacts;
Propose smart solutions

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water Management... maritime challenges

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Study Case: Ballast Water Management !

When ballast water, collected in a certain geographic area

is discharged into a different area without being properly treated:
→ RISK of introduction of unwanted marine organisms!!!
The unwanted bacteria, viruses, algae and jellyfish can cause
considerable damage to the marine ecosystem and cataclysmic
impact on aquatic and human life!!

Partnership such as:

Mediterranean Early
MedYWat Teamwork ● WORLD BANK
Warning System
from each ● IMO
+
mediterranean Country ● UFM
Ballast Water Risk
to indicate risk Research institutions
assessment management
contamination and from each country
(Prevention of hazardous
coordinate. (OGS from Italy)
event)
etc...
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MedYWat SBG Partnership !

The success of Our MedYWat Platform is related to the members motivation:

“ Successful People are not gifted, they just work hard, then they succeed on purpose”
But also to partnerships around the world. These mutually beneficial partnerships can
take different forms, such as Scientific Partnerships, sponsoring opportunities, funding
innovations, trainings, workshop...
Example:

The Italian National Institute of MedYWat Coordinator members:

Oceanography and Applied
Geophysics; Trieste/ Italy: Funded Training on SBG ● Baya Aissaoui (Tunisia)
OGS ● Lamis Qudaimat (Palestine)
Blue Growth Initiative ● Anas Tallou (Marocco)
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Conclusion and perspectives !