From 12–14 May, NexusLabs project partners gathered in Padova, Italy, for the project’s 3rd Plenary Meeting, a three-day exchange dedicated to strengthening collaboration, sharing progress, and advancing innovative solutions for sustainable water management and climate-resilient agriculture across the Mediterranean. The meeting brought together project partners, Living Lab representatives, and experts working across the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE)...Read More
The Soil and Water Resources Institute team has been working closely with farmers to co-develop smarter, more sustainable irrigation solutions. We spoke with Andreas Panagopoulos, Research Director and Vassilis Pisinaras, Senior Researcher in order to grasp what they are hearing on the ground, the challenges ahead, and what gives them hope. While Andreas reflects on...Read More
From 4–6 March 2026, researchers from across the Mediterranean gathered in Chania for the EcoFuture PRIMA Workshop on WEFE Nexus Solutions & Tools, organised by the Technical University of Crete under the coordination of Professor Nikolaos Nikolaidis. Held at the Centre for Mediterranean Architecture, the three-day workshop brought together representatives from 16 PRIMA, Horizon and...Read More
DREVEN is developing a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment tool in Living Labs helping turn complex data into clear, practical insights across the entire food chain. These tools provide solid, evidence-based guidance for better decisions, future actions, and policy development, all backed by a robust database of evaluated results and real impacts. Alongside this, DREVEN is...Read More
Prof. Lahoucine Hanich of Cadi Ayyad University, pilot leader of the Moroccan Living Lab within NexusLabs, reflects on early field experiences and stakeholder engagement in the Tensift basin. He discusses how farmers and local managers are responding to low-cost monitoring technologies, the practical challenges of deploying them in real-world conditions, and the emerging lessons around...Read More
Excellent progress at the Living Lab in Menemen, in Türkiye’s Aegean Region, led by UTAEM (Uluslararası Tarımsal Araştırma ve Eğitim Merkezi) demonstrating how simple, low-cost agricultural practices can make a big impact. In the fall of 2025, the UTAEM team successfully completed the construction of water-harvesting parcels, perfectly timed to capture the first winter rains....Read More
What happens when the same farmer, managing two similar neighboring fields with access to very different amounts of water? The SWRI team, pilot leaders in the Pinios, Greece, Living Lab analysed the data of the past few years to find out. The answer, it turns out, sheds important light on how farmers make decisions under...Read More
NexusLabs has successfully deployed a new low-cost integrated soil monitoring system in its Morocco pilot site in the Tensift River Basin — an important step towards smarter, more efficient irrigation in Mediterranean agriculture. The system was designed and assembled by the Cadi Ayyad University team, combining reliability, accuracy and affordability so that it can be...Read More
