Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS)
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Website Name | Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS) |
Type | International Portal
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About
EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries
All the countries involved in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership are concerned:
- The 27 EU member states
- The 10 Mediterranean Partner Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey)
At the conference of the Euro-Med Water Directors (Rome, Nov. 2005), it was decided to open EMWIS to the Mediterranean countries not signatories of the Barcelona Declaration, i.e. Balkan countries and Libya.
Objectives
- To provide easy access to information, with special emphasis on:
- Institutions - The types of institutions and the people involved.
- Documentation - Existing centres and their organisation; the means and technologies used for processing, accessing, consultation and dissemination, standardisation and quality certification.
- Training - Existing organisations, programmes, localisation, trainers, methods, training materials, quality certification.
- Research and development - Existing organisations, programmes, people involved, means and technologies, publications, partnerships, funding sources.
- Data administration - Existing organisations and databases, methods used for data gathering and checking, publications.
- To develop the sharing of information
- To work together on common products and cooperation programmes.
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