CLICHA@Women4IT

11.09.21

The Erasmus+ project “Climate Change in Agriculture” was largely disseminated during the event organised by CRETHIDEV within the frames of the project @Women4IT on Saturday 11/09/21. Women4IT is a project that aims to develop innovative solutions to increase the numbers of vulnerable girls and young women into EU’s digital agenda. Young trainees in the field of digital technologies demonstrated great interest in the subject of the project and its educational platform. #climate change #digital skills

CLICHA@Women4IT

Mother Earth

Two years ago we were planning an art exhibition as part of the “Climate Change in Agriculture” final conference in the effort to combine and bring together culture and science. Although the pandemic made that impossible, it’s so good that other ideas arose, making use of the natural environment as a canvas for art. “Mother Earth” multi media art exhibition on the banks of the river Litheos at Trikala Greece featured the art piece “Nailon”, which according to the artist Mary Roussioti is a comment about the expansive and destructive tendency of humankind towards the environment: The entry to a new state where plastic and garbage prevail over the natural landscape and become a new reality.

Mother Earth

New Webinar “Climate change and livestock production”

30.06.21

 The 5th session of the webinar series on the subjects of “Climate Change in Agriculture”, organized by the CLICHA consortium, took place at Wednesday, 30/06/2021, through the ZOOM platform and was broadcasted through the Facebook page of the project. 

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Vegetation evolution, Agroforestry and Climate change

28.04.21

The 4th webinar on the subject of “Climate Change in Agriculture” took place on 28 April 2021 by focusing on the topics of Vegetation evolution and Agroforestry in a climate changing environment. Dr. Anastasia Pantera, Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens, elaborated the participants of how climate change with the extreme weather conditions may significantly affect the evolution and the dynamics of vegetation. Additionally, Dr. George Fotiadis, Assistant Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens presented the aspects of agroforestry and the fact that this climate smart farming system has, in the past few decades, progressively been replaced by intensive monocrops, at the expense of many environmental parameters deteriorating ecosystems’ health. Climate changing conditions will add to the pressure already imposed in the Mediterranean basin ecosystem’s sustainability.

You can watch the webinar via the link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=297494365217912&ref=watch_permalink

Webinar Agroforestry

CLICHA project dissemination

The CLICHA project was presented in the online Kick-off meetings of the Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships projects:

  • INSIDes, held on 16 December 2020
  • DeCAIR: held on 19 January 2021
  • FUTURE++: held on 22 January 2021
  • INFURI: held on 08 February 2021.

The aim was to attract interest on the project’s results and initiate collaboration opportunities.

CLICHA project dissemination

Webinar #2: Impacts of climate change on coastal areas

17.03.21

The coastal zones are the most vulnerable area to indirect and direct effects of climatic change. The indirect effects are related to the growing demography along them as well as to anthropogenic activities. Indeed, the population exodus from inside land is highly increased as consequence of hard climatic condition (high temperature level and very low rainfall) and the lake of access to water mainly in summer period. The direct effects are related to the change of climatic parameters, mainly the rainfall and the temperature, as well as to the sea level high fluctuation. It is evident that the indirect effects will result in a high pressure on groundwater resources both in terms of quantity and quality. Indeed, the urban water needs, and the crop consumptions are increased not only by the temperature increase and the rainfall decrease but also by the high demand in food and water to satisfy a population in constant increase. The direct effects are related to the scarcity of rainfall, the increase of water evaporation and of the sea level. The rainfall and water evaporation increase will reduce the groundwater recharge and increase the water irrigation requirement. The sea level increase will destroy the lands along the shoreline and will accelerate the sea water intrusion in the land; an inversion of hydraulic gradient may occur as result of the groundwater level decrease, due to the reduction of the recharge and to the increase of pumped rates.

These issues, supported by case studies and scientific research, were presented at the webinar organized by the University of Carthage – National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia in the framework of the Climate Change in Agriculture project.

Coastal Erosion & Climate Change

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E-learning: Design and editing of interactive video clips

11.03.21-13.03.21

The Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott-Meriem in collaboration with the Career and Competences Certification Centre and the Association of Agronomic Sciences of Chott Meriem, organize as part of the CLICHA project a three-day training on the tools of ” Distance education: Design and editing of interactive video clips” The seminar will be presented by Mr Mohamed Ali Nahli.

E-learning

Net Media Lab participated in the Conference of the Erasmus+ Project WORKINGTHROUGH

17.02.21

On 17 February 2021, Net Media Lab, participated in the online conference of the Erasmus+ project WORKINGTHROUGH, entitled “Virtual Reality (VR) training in work related skills for Individuals with Autism”. During the conference, Dr. Athanasios Drigas, head of Net Media Lab presented the objectives, as well as the outcomes so far of the project CLICHA.

WORKINGTHROUGH Project

Webinar: The role of agricultural biodiversity in climate change

27.02.21

Which are the consequences of climate change in genetic biodiversity? How can local varieties and breeds help in future food production? Can the use of local plant varieties allow agricultural systems to better adapt? Could autochthonous breeds improve climate change mitigation strategies?

The speakers of the webinar “The role of rural biodiversity in climate change”, professors Bebeli Penelope and Bizelis Iosif, gave their answers to these questions on Wednesday, 27/01/21 via zoom and in live stream on facebook.com/Clicha.erasmusplus. Students and scientists participated in the online event.

CLICHA Biodiversity Webinar