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Kerry Waylen (HUTTON) represented MAGIC at the ALTER-Net Conference that took place in Ghent (Belgium), 2-4 May 2017. The theme of the conference was ‘Synergies, conflicts and trade-offs in the relationship between nature and society’. Kerry’s presentation covered the first year of MAGIC activities related to WP 2 and focused on the...

Ansel Renner and Violeta Cabello-Villarejo (UAB) took part in the 2017 edition of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna (Austria), 23–28 April 2017. Their work on MAGIC (WP4) was presented in the PICO session "Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals" (IE3.4/ESSI2.12), jointly with contributions of SIM4NEXUS consortium...

MAGIC’s coordinator Mario Giampietro spoke at the Inspirational Workshop on New Narratives of Energy and Sustainability–Debunking myths and interrogating the universality of global and local integrations, organised by MAGIC partner JRC Ispra. The event took place on Thursday 20 April 2017 in Brussels at the Berlaymont (Schuman Room). The...

ITC will represent MAGIC in the Renewable-energy Desalination Action Group (AG025) of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Water. The synergy is aimed at triggering a collaboration between the two initiatives by sharing the acquired knowledge in MAGIC as well as engaging the relevant sectoral stakeholders participating in the action group. The...

Violeta Cabello (UAB) presented MAGIC at the closing event of the WEAM4i Eu Project at the Parc Científic de Barcelona on 6 April 2017. Violeta introduced the main features of the projects along with a relevant case study currently tackled in the Project on vegetable production in the Almería province. Given the specific field of experise of the...

Violeta Cabello (UAB) presented MAGIC at the closing event of the WaterINN Eu Project at the Casa de Convalescència, Barcelona, on 24-25 January 2017. Violeta introduced the main features of the projects along with the most relevant contents and domains tackled with a specific close-up on the MuSIASEM methodology proposed as a tool for the...

Violeta Cabello (UAB) represented the MAGIC Consortium at the annual Brokerage & Working Groups event of the European Technology Platform for Water (WssTP) that took place in Brussels on 23-24 November 2016. SIM4NEXUS and MAGIC, who have taken on the challenge to jointly coordinate the WssTP Water-Energy-Food Biodiversity Nexus Workgroup,...

Project Coordinator Mario Giampietro presented MAGIC at the Institute for Environmental Sciences of the Université de Genève on Monday 7 November 2016 upon invitation by the TIGERS network (Technology of Information for Geographic and Environmental Research and Services). Mario’s TIGERS talk focused on MAGIC’s innovative integrated approach...

MAGIC’s Project members Zora Kovacic (UAB), Tarik Serrano (UAB) and Thomas Völker (JRC) took part in the thematic session The Nexus approach to the assessment of innovation policies organized at the 8th annual S.Net meeting in Bergen, Norway (12th-14 October 2016). Tarik Serrano presented a case study on GMOs: The license to import GM crops by...

MAGIC Project Coordinator Mario Giampietro participated in the Expert Workshop on Understanding the Water-Energy Nexus: Integrated Water and Power System Modelling, organized by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) with the participation of EC’s Directorate General for Research and...