Lisbon, Portugal, 15 - 17 May 2014
Sharing Knowledge across the Mediterranean Conference (9)
The Sharing Knowledge across the Mediterranean Conference (9) took place in Lisbon at the Pavilhao Do Conhecimento – Centro Ciencia Viva.
Documents to be consulted
The conference led to the following recommendations: Recommendations 2014
The lists of interveners and participants are available here: ListIntervenants2014 and ListeParticipants2014
Program
Download the programOpening- Welcome Session
09h00
Welcome Address
09h15
Address from Ciencia Viva
Governance and Financial Structures (Moderator J.-M. Gago)
10h00
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance
10h30
The European Investment Bank in MENA region
11h00
Microcredit as an efficient way to develop businesses
Energy for MENA and Africa: demand and supply aspects (Moderator R. Klapisch)
13h00
Transporting electricity by Supraconductivity: a novel technology to bring electricity from the places it is produced to where people live is in a transition from the Laboratory to Industrial deployment
Keynote
13h30
Round table
To see the videos of the presentations following Olivier Grabette’s speech:
Giovanni Grasso and his talk: Grasso2014
Johannes Stuhlberger and his talk: StuhlbergerPart1-2014, StuhlbergerPart2-2014
Ronan Stephan and his talk: StephanPart1-2014, StephanPart2-2014, StephanPart3-2014
Energy: Demand
15h30
Urban and long-distance train projects in Africa
15h50
Land-based transportation in Sub-Sahara Africa as a link with port and maritime activity
Energy: Supply
16h15
16h30
Using the Hydraulic resource of the Congo River for electricity production and Irrigation
Talk: DingaPart1-2014, DIngaPart2-2014, DingaPart32014
16h45
Environmental consequences of fracking for oil and gas
17h15
Integration of intermittent wind energy in the network of Capo Verde
17h45
Small and medium sized nuclear reactors
Water and Food (Moderator J.P. Crespo)
09h00
09h30
Contribution of GM crops to food security in Subsaharan Africa
10h00
Traditional users of arable land in Africa are being dispossessed by foreign powers «the land grab» as well as by the urban bourgeoisie
11h00
Monitoring Post Harvest Losses in Africa
11h30
Water and Waste Water treatment for Safe (re)Use
Talk: Pereira & CrespoPart1-2014, Pereira & CrespoPart2-2014
Eradicating extreme poverty (Moderator H. Marty-Gauquié)
13h30
14h00
University to the benefit of innovation: the Israeli reference model
15h00
Development of renewable energies in Morocco, social and economical issues
Improving seemingly intractable problems
16h00
Inequalities of rich and poor towards catastrophes
16h30
Contrasting consequences of catastrophes (natural or man-made) for rich and poor countries
Energy and Desalination
17h00
Renewable energy based desalination
Water stress in Jordan River basin
17h30
The important Israel Jordan PA December 2013 agreement
Round table
To see the following presentations:
Abdelrahman Tamimi and his talk: Tamimi2014
Talk of Shimon Tal: Tal2014
Aspiration to modernity: impact of digital revolution (Moderator A. Hoummada)
09h00
The digital revolution in perspective: from technologies to societal impact
09h30
The African digital divide has diminished but the knowledge gap persists
Aspiration to modernity: societal transformation
10h30
Integrating Women in the workforce in MENA and Africa
Round table
To see the additional presentations:
Gisèle Yitamben and her talk: Itamben2014
Rokhsana Ismail and her talk: Ismail2014