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Capacity Building for Sustainable Treatment and Valorization of Olive Mill Waste in Palestine

Start date:2011-10-01

End date:2014-09-30

Project Acronym:OLITREVA

Project status:Execution

Coordinator

Organization name:APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE JERUSALEM ASSOCIATION
Administrative contact Address
Name:Fahd ABU-SAYMEH (Mr) KARAM MUAMAR STREET
860
BETHLEHEM
WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP

Region:
Tel:+972-22741889
Fax:+972-22776966
E-mail:Contact
URL:http://www.arij.org Organization Type:

Description


Objective: As for the whole Mediterranean, for thousands of years, the olive tree has been an integral part of the Palestinian landscape: a symbol of Palestinian identity, culture and tradition. Nowadays, around 100.000 families in the West Bank depend on olive cultivation as their main source of income and during harvest season, this sector creates thousand of additional jobs. Despite the significant contributions of the olive oil sector in the economic and social development of the Palestine, it is becoming a source of serious environmental problems to which urgent solutions have to be addressed. OLITREVA project aims to strengthen RTD and cooperation capacities of Palestinian research centres and thus, to enhance their response to the environmental threats posed by olive oil production residues in the country. Our target would be to enhance S&T capacities of local research performers devoted to the field of Olive Mill Waste Treatment, by increasing networking and cooperation with European centres of top-level research and scientific excellence working in the same field. Through this path, local researcher centres and researchers will develop the necessary capacities to respond to the environmental challenges result from incorrect OMW disposal. By engaging one of the country's leading research institutions, The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, awareness among local peer organizations on this research field will be raised. Moreover, several activities within the work plan are meant to be a platform to increase international awareness about the work performed by Palestinian research institutions and to promote networking activities and transfer of knowledge and best practices.

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Project Details


Start date:2011-10-01

End date:2014-09-30

Duration:36 months

Project Reference:295107

Project cost:636986 EURO

Project Funding:495635 EURO

Programme Acronym: FP7-INCO

Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme

Subprogramme Area:Mediterranean Countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian-administered Areas, Lebanon, Syria

Contract type:Support actions

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Subject index:Regional Development
 

Other participants

Organization name:VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.
Administrative contact Address
Name:Gerhard SCHORIES (Dr) An der Karlstadt

BREMERHAVEN
DEUTSCHLAND

Region:BREMEN Bremen Bremerhaven, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tel:+49-4719448702
Fax:+49-4719448722
E-mail:Contact
URL:http://www.ttz-bremerhaven.de Organization Type:
 
Organization name:CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Administrative contact Address
Name:Lidietta GIORNO (Dr) PIAZZALE ALDO MORO

ROMA
ITALIA

Region:LAZIO Roma
Tel:+39-0984492050
Fax:+39-0984402103
E-mail:Contact
URL:http://www.cnr.it Organization Type:
 
Organization name:UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA
Administrative contact Address
Name:Manuel JÍMENEZ GARCÍA (Mr) AVENIDA DE ELVAS

BADAJOZ
ESPAÑA

Region:CENTRO (E) EXTREMADURA Badajoz
Tel:+34-924289321
Fax:
E-mail:Contact
URL:http://www.unex.es Organization Type:
 

Record control number:101346




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