Thessaloniki, Greece · The Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities, ANATOLIKI s.a., organized the Final Conference with title: “Sustainable Water Management

1G-MED08-515 WATERinCORE

Project’s Final Conference REPORT

Project cofinanced by European Regional Development Fund

Project cofinancé par le Fonds européen de développement régional

1G-MED08-515

“Sustainable Water Management

through Common Responsibility enhancement

in Mediterranean River Basins”

May 2012

Project’s Final Conference REPORT

“Sustainable Water Management

through Common Responsibility enhancement

in Mediterranean River Basins”

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Thessaloniki, Greece


Final Conference REPORT 1

CONTENTS

1 - Introduction ...................................................................................... 1

2 - Dissemination and Participants ............................................................ 2

3 - Programme - Presentations – Distributed material ................................. 2

4 - Photos from the conference ................................................................ 7

5 - ANNEX ............................................................................................. 8



1 - Introduction

The Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities, ANATOLIKI

s.a., organized the Final Conference with title: “Sustainable Water Management

through Common Responsibility enhancement in Mediterranean River Basins” in

the framework of the project WATERinCORE (1GMED08-515), on Thursday, 24

May 2012 at 09:00 a.m., in the Technical Chamber of Greece /Section of Central

Macedonia , 49 M. Alexandrou Avenue in Thessaloniki.

The aim of the conference was the presentation of water management in the

pilot Mediterranean basins of the project and of the results and tools that have

been produced during the implementation of the project WATERinCORE.

In the framework of the conference, the institutional framework and the national

water management policy from the Special Water Secretary of the Ministry of

Environment and Climate Change, prof. Andreas Andreadakis was presented. For

first time, the contents and the expected results of the study of the River Basins’

Management Plans for the Water District of Central Macedonia (GR10) from a

representative of the contracting consortium of the study was also presented.

Finally, the consultation process, that took place during the development of the

Management Plan of Cyprus, had been analysed in view of the relevant process

that is going to be followed in the region of Central Macedonia in the framework

of the previous study.

The conference was addressed to all actors and scientists dealing with water

management and with the implementation of Local Agenda 21 in Environment

Management, in general. Speakers of the conference were representatives of the

partners’ scheme of the project and competent actors of Greece and special

scientists and scholars in water management issues.



2 - Dissemination and Participants

The conference has been announced on the LP’s website

http://www.anatoliki.gr/anatoliki/_include/asp/newsTemplate.asp?pageCiId=63

&targetPage=14&lang=el#997 and on the project’s website

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&lay

out=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=en and was disseminated via email to the

contact list of ANATOLIKI. Moreover, it has been uploaded at the site of the

Technical chamber of Greece/Section of Central Macedonia.

Press releases were sent to the press before and after the event. A local

channel, TV 100, has interviewed before the beginning of the event, the Special

Secretary of Water prof. Andreas Andreadakis, the project manager, Mr Sokratis

Famellos and mrs Panayiota Hadjigeorgiou, Head of Planning Division, Water

Development Department, Cyprus. The film of the interview is annexed in the

report.

In the conference 94 persons from administration, local authorities and private

sector as well as the delegations of the project’s partners were participated . The

participants’ list is included in the annex.

3 - Programme - Presentations – Distributed

material

The invitation-programme of the conference is included in the annex in the

format disseminated and the translation of the programme in English is

presented below.

http://www.anatoliki.gr/anatoliki/_include/asp/newsTemplate.asp?pageCiId=63&targetPage=14&lang=el#997

http://www.anatoliki.gr/anatoliki/_include/asp/newsTemplate.asp?pageCiId=63&targetPage=14&lang=el#997

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=en

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=en



Conference’s Programme

2nd DAY - THURSDAY 24 MAY 2012

Technical Chamber of Greece, 49 M. Alexandrou avenue

FINAL CONFERENCE

9:00 Registration of the Participants

9:30 Welcome address and opening

9:40 Institutional framework and competent authorities on water

resources management in Greece

Prof. Andreas Andreadakis, Special Secretary, Special Secretariat for

Water, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate change

10:00 The WATERinCORE project

Mr Sokratis Famellos, Chemical Engineer MSc, Local Development

Manager, ANATOLIKI s.a.

10:20 Water management in Mediterranean pilot basins

Mrs Elisavet Pavlidou, Chemical Engineer MSc , ANATOLIKI s.a., Greece

10:40 Towards the Serchio river contract: Sustainable management of

river areas

Mrs Sandra Paterni, Expert on environnemental planning, Province of

Lucca, Italy

11:00 Sustainable management of Irminio river and Santa Rosalie dam

Mr Armando Garretto 1 , Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment of Sicily, Italy

11:20 Water management plan for Catchment Area 8 of Cyprus –

Environmental agreement for water

Mrs Panayiota Hadjigeorgiou, Civil Engineer, Msc, MBA, Head of

Planning Division, Water Development Department, Cyprus

11:40 Coffee break

12:00 Participative action plan in High Genil river basin: methodology,

development and results

Mrs Myriam Prieto, Responsible of Environmental Service, Deputation of

Granada, Spain

12:20 The River Basin Management Plans for the River Basin Districts

of Central Macedonia (GR 10), Greece: Contents and expected

results

1 Mr Armando Garretto has replaced Mrs Maria Lucia Antoci in the programme.



Mrs Lisa Bensasson, Civil Engineer MSc, Dep. Representative of the

study of the Water management plan Consortium

12:40 Digital applications to support consultation actions in water

management

Mrs Lisa Bensasson, School of Agronomy, Laboratory of Remote

Sensing and GIS, Balkan Environmental Center

13:00 Public Consultation for the River Basin Management Plan of

Cyprus. Proposals and Conclusions

Mrs Stella Kaimaki, Civil Engineer - Environmental Scientist, PhD

13:20 Discussion - Closure of the conference

13:40 Light lunch

Presentations – main topics.

The conference was opened by the general director of ANATOLIKI s.a, who

present the role of ANATOLIKI and its scope of its operation. In continuance, mr

George Kouyiamis, the president of the board of ANTOLIKI, well came the

participants and congratulated the partners for its fruitful cooperation in the

project as well as the members of the project team of ANATOLIKI that have

worked for the fulfillment of its activities and the achievements of its objectives.

Prof. Andreadakis Andreas, representative of Ministry of Environment and

Climate change, Special Secretariat of Water, has opened the conference as

guest speaker. He has presented the Greek legal framework comply with the EU

different directives concerning WATER, the competent authorities and the level

of implementation of WFD in Greece.

Mr Famellos, project manager, has initially presented the project, the

partnership and its activities. Moreover, presented the results of the opinion

survey made in the Anthemountas basin as well as the strategic water

management plan for the basin.

Mrs Elisavet Pavlidou, from ANATOLIKI s.a., presented to the audience the five

different participant areas in the project as well as the comparison made, in the

frame of the project, between the water management in the regions. In addition,

she has spoken about the pilot basins and the water management indicators

data base that was created. The main water management indicators of the

basins were presented in a comparative way in order to provide the situation of

water resources management in the basins under investigation and to give the



main characteristics of them to audience to understand the presentation from

the following speakers.

Mrs Sandra Paterni, from province of Lucca, presented the project’s pilot area

and the participatory process followed during the project towards the river

contract for Sherchio at Province of Lucca territory.

Mr Armando Garretto, replacing mrs Antoci, from ARPA Sicilia, has made the

presentation “Sustainable management of Irminio river and Santa Rosalie dam”.

He made a chronology on the Public Participation efforts in the pilot area and

presented the authorities participated and the actions undertaken, in the frame

of the project, in the development of the action plan and the sign of the

agreement on the following steps that should be taken.

Mrs Panayiota Chadjigeorgiou, WDD of Cyprus, has provided information about

the characteristics of the pilot basin in Cyprus, the strategic water management

plan developed and the actions includes and finally about the effort of WDD of

Cyprus to develop an environmental agreement with the local authorities of the

pilot area on three different directions. Finally, is stated that an agreement with

the local authority of Perivolion was achieved towards the drinking water saving.

In continuance of the break, mr Kyrill Dimanopoulos, Laison officer of MED

programme in Greece, presented the state of the art of the MED Programme and

the role of the Thessaloniki Liaison Office.

Next speaker was mrs Myriam Prieto, from deputation of Granada, presented the

Public participation process developed, the opinion survey made, the assessment

of the current ecological status of water of Genil river and the final strategic plan

with its actions as well as the Social local agreement on water management

signed, in the frame of the project.

After the completion of the presentations by the project’s partnership the speech

was taken by the invited speakers of the conference. The first one was, mrs Lisa

Bensasson, representative of the consortium undertaken the study for the water

management plan of river basins of water department 10 of Central Macedonia,

at the end of April 2012. She has introduced the stages, the timetable, the

public participation envisaged and the deliverables of the study.



Next speaker was prof. George Zalidis, from the School of Agronomy, Laboratory

of Remote Sensing and GIS, and the Balkan Environmental Center. He presented

a digital application to support consultation actions in water management, the

Eyecoast e-Platform. It is a digital platform of e-government aiming at the active

involvement of the citizens and authorities in the procedure of planning,

application and assessment interested in the management of coastal zone of

Thermaikos gulf.

Last but not least, Mrs Stella Kaimaki, the Public Consultation procedure has

taken place towards the River Basin Management Plan of Cyprus., as a case

study of the PP procedures in the water management .

All the presentations of the conference are uploaded in the project’s website,

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&lay

out=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=el.

Distributed material

To the participants a dossier including the two guidebooks on LA21 and Water

management as well as the programme and the project leaflet were distributed.

In addition the presentation made during the conference has been also included

in a CD.

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=el

http://www.waterincore.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=15&lang=el



4 - Photos from the conference

Panel of the 1st session Panel of the 2nd session

Audience of the final conference

Special Secretary of WATER Prof. Andreas Andreadakis

Mrs Panayiota Hadjigeorgiou WDD of Cyprus



5 - ANNEX



Conference’s Invitation and programme





Conference’s Participants List



















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Thessaloniki, Greece · The Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities, ANATOLIKI s.a., organized the Final Conference with title: “Sustainable Water Management