1st Steering Committee meeting of the "Water and Environment Support in the ENI Southern Neighbourhood region (WES)

1st Steering Committee meeting of this 4-year project (2019-2023), with a budget of approximately €8.000.000. WES has been launched in June 2019, it aims to assist the implementation of an integrated approach to pollution reduction and prevention in line with the Barcelona Convention and to contribute to a more efficient management of scarce water resources in the Neighbourhood South region.

 The project will support Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, [Syria] and Tunisia to implement regional priorities at a national level. The WES project will be building on the experience gained through one of the predecessor projects of the WES, the ‘Sustainable Water Integrated Management and Horizon 2020 Support Mechanism’ (SWIM-H2020 SM) project (2016-2019) and the Sustainable Water Integrated Management Support Mechanism (SWIM SM) project (2010-2015).

Organised back to back with:

• 10th meeting of the Horizon 2020 Review and Monitoring Group - 23-24 | Athens

• 10th meeting of the H2020 Steering Group meeting - 25 | Athens