<< Objectives >>This project aims to equip European employees and volunteers of civil society organisations (CSOs) in their operational, strategic and prospective reflections, and in their partnership dialogue, by strengthening the knowledge of their specificities and the recognition of their contribution to European society and democracy, in order to make CSOs a powerful lever of development of participation, democratic engagement and active citizenship of all Europeans.<< Implementation >>We will organise a seminar bringing together CSO practitioners, their partners, training organisations that work with CSOs and researchers, in order to qualify the knowledge needs of CSOs and to identify ways to practically meet these needs. The results of this seminar will be disseminated throughout Europe via a white paper and a conference. A collaborative digital library will also be created to disseminate useful resources for the development of CSOs and training of practitioners.<< Results >>Our project will allow to train CSO practitioners and to increase their awareness of the importance of equipping their reflections and their action with a better knowledge of the specificities and contributions of CSOs to the European society. It will also result in a knowledge network of practitioners and researchers on CSOs. Finally, it will provide training organisations and researchers that work with/on CSOs with pratical recommendations on CSO's needs.
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EU is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy 2050, with an intermediate target of 55% CO2 reduction emissions in comparison to 1990. Greece is lagging behind in the energy transition process due to a number of reasons such as: • high share of natural gas in the electricity generation mix on a permanent basis • use of fossil fuels (lignite) in high-demand periods • lack of industrial plans to exploit CO2 capture and storage technologies as well as perspectives for CO2 export in other countries • lack of geothermal energy penetration into the electricity mix Geosciences play a fundamental role in research activities tackling new energy transition themes through the use of underground resources, such as the geological storage of CO2 and hydrogen and geothermal energy. This is the foundation of TWINN2SET project. It will be implemented as a partnership between the Institute of Geoenergy of the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (EL), the University of Stavanger (NO) and the IFP Energies Nouvelles (FR), in the domains of 1) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 2) Deep Geothermal Energy and 3) Subsurface Hydrogen Storage. The project consists of a capacity building & mentoring programme in the above three areas which will be complemented by an exploratory project focusing on Hydrogen storage in Geological formations, fostering interdisciplinary competencies at the interplay of a promising energy vector with subsurface reservoir characterisation, modelling and monitoring. The TWINN2SET project will provide a coherent network that will strengthen interactions between members of the consortium. More specifically, TWINN2SET will enable the newly established IG/FORTH to participate in the European R&I process on Energy Transition.
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Karst aquifers are a treasure and a threat: while up to 25% of the world population depends on them for drinking water, they also have capabilities for extremely fast conduction of water and contaminants. In the light of climate change, we need to prepare for extreme flooding and understand the consequences for karst aquifers. Despite their socio-economic importance, decades of research, and high-profile disasters, karst structures and processes remain notoriously difficult to assess. Because of the complexity of karst and its lack of accessibility, the foundations of flow and transport modeling in karst systems are weak. Key phenomena related to extreme events such as flash floods and heavy tails in tracer recovery are still beyond current modeling capabilities. KARST will establish the next generation of coupled stochastic modeling frameworks to predict karst processes, assess the vulnerability of karst aquifers, and forecast their response to extreme events. Our approach will bridge structures and processes on all scales, far beyond the capabilities of current theories and computer simulations. This will be achieved by targeting three key objec- tives: (i) Identification and quantification of flow and transport dynamics at the conduit scale. (ii) Characterization and modeling of karst network structure at the catchment scale. (iii) Derivation of a new upscaled approach to predict karst processes at different resolution scales. Together, this will result in an unprecedented multiscale modeling framework for the prediction of flow and transport in karst. Solving this long-standing problem is possible thanks to the synergy of the KARST PI team combining the set of skills and knowledge (hydrogeology, physics, mathematics) required to make a ground-breaking step in this field. Beyond that, the new approach is expected to impact other real-world systems in medicine (capillary networks), neuroscience (brain microcirculation) or glaciology (meltwater flow in glaciers).
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