FASTER: Farmers’ Adaptation Sustainability in Tunisia through Excellence in Research
FASTER is an Horizon 2020 EU project running between 2018-2021.
It is a collaboration between CMES Lund University, CREAF (Barcelona University), INRGREF and associated research centres (IRESA, AVFA) in Tunisia, and companies EFB and Vision.
Five work packages
The project is structured into five work packages and amounting to 1 million €, including: coordination; capacity building through training and staff exchanges; living lab stablishing through summer schools, e-learning and stakeholder involvement; project sustainability by monitoring, networking and governmental support; and communication through awareness raising and knowledge cocreation.
Expected impacts to INRGREF and Tunisian partners
- increased number of publications in peer review journals
- mobility and international co-funding
- increased international reputation
- awareness and engagement
- new skills and competencies
- new services and employment related to FAS
- and new research avenues
Contact
ronny [dot] berndtsson [at] tvrl [dot] lth [dot] se (Ronny Berndtsson)
Professor
Division of Water Resources Engineering, LTH
Ronny Berndtsson´s profile in Lund University Research portal