{"id":2771,"date":"2025-11-07T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:23:50","slug":"9th-press-release-after-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/2025\/11\/07\/9th-press-release-after-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Press Release after policy stakeholder engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2771\" class=\"elementor elementor-2771\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8706b3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b8706b3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e86b72 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3e86b72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">PRIMA WEFE Nexus Workshop \u2014 Cairo, 2 November 2025\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe551d6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fe551d6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea6e7a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea6e7a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Cairo, Egypt<\/strong> \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/meet-our-team\/university-of-the-bundeswehr-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universit\u00e4t der Bundeswehr M\u00fcnchen (UniBwM)<\/a>, FrontAg Nexus project Coordinator, participated in the PRIMA WEFE Nexus Workshop<\/strong>, titled <em>\u201cTranslating Research into Action: Institutionalizing WEFE Nexus Solutions across the Mediterranean, Europe, and Africa\u201d<\/em>, held on November 2, 2025, in Cairo.<\/p><p>Organized by <strong>DIONYSUS<\/strong>, in cooperation with the <strong>PRIMA Foundation, CIHEAM-IAMM<\/strong>, and <strong>Egypt\u2019s Institute of National Planning<\/strong>, the workshop brought together researchers, international organizations, PRIMA project representatives, and practitioners to explore how Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus research can be translated into coordinated, actionable policies across the region.<\/p><h3>What was discussed<\/h3><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy discussions focused on identifying and overcoming the key obstacles that prevent successful WEFE pilots and research findings from effectively influencing mainstream policymaking:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sectoral &amp; Project Fragmentation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Persistent gaps between WEFE projects, public institutions, and policy sectors.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Institutional Coordination Gaps:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Insufficient collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and implementing bodies.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Data &amp; Evidence Exchange:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Limited sharing of standardized, comparable data, methodologies, and pilot evidence.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Socio-Economic &amp; Gender Dimensions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Inadequate incorporation of social, gender, and economic considerations in WEFE assessments.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Science-to-Policy Mechanisms:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Weak processes for translating scientific outputs into actionable policy briefs and legislative tools.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Local Stakeholder Engagement:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The need for broader participation, particularly from local communities, farmers, and field practitioners.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Financial Integration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Limited involvement of development banks and financial institutions needed for scaling, replication, and investment.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sustainability of Initiatives:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Absence of a permanent regional structure to maintain cooperation once individual project lifecycles end.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants emphasized moving beyond purely technological solutions to build the necessary institutional governance and infrastructure connecting evidence, decision-makers, financial actors, and local stakeholders.<\/span><\/p><h3>Key Outcomes and Institutional Conclusions<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshop delivered concrete institutional outputs and strategic outcomes:<\/span><\/p><ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Establishment of the Regional WEFE Nexus Think Tank:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Participants co-designed the framework for the DIONYSUS Think Tank as a permanent platform connecting research, policy, and practice to support Mediterranean science-policy dialogue and evidence-based governance.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Unified Data and Policy Platform:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Agreement on creating a common digital space for projects to share methodologies, pilot data, tools, and policy recommendations, reducing duplication and increasing policy relevance.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Structured Policy Development Cycle:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Proposal of a multi-step policy cycle covering draft recommendations, stakeholder consultation, validation, communication with decision-makers, implementation, and impact evaluation.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Inclusive Governance Framework:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Commitment to expanding WEFE governance beyond academia and government to include civil society, development banks, women\u2019s and youth organizations, as well as incubators and accelerators.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Enhanced Regional Coordination:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Strong support for a central coordination function linking cross-regional projects, knowledge hubs, and funding mechanisms across Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2026\u20132028 Implementation Roadmap:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Definition of key steps including formalizing the Think Tank charter, expanding membership, launching the shared knowledge platform, organizing annual policy forums, and securing long-term funding.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><div><h3>Country Case Studies &amp; Policy Responses<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presentation highlighted comparative governance approaches across the Mediterranean:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Policy Landscape:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Recognized for robust strategies spanning water efficiency, climate adaptation, energy efficiency, agricultural drought, biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration. However, these strategies require deeper integration, improved national-to-local coordination, and harmonized implementation.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Jordan\u2019s Institutional Model:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Jordan\u2019s national WEFE council\u2014supported by dedicated technical and steering committees\u2014was presented as a model of a highly institutionalized and structured approach to nexus governance.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Overall Policy Conclusion<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshop concluded that the main barrier to implementing the WEFE Nexus is not a shortage of technological innovation or pilot projects, but the lack of permanent governance and knowledge-transfer structures capable of turning research into coherent policy and funded action. Moving forward, sustainable WEFE policymaking requires accessible evidence, inclusive governance, active financial engagement, and enduring regional cooperation extending beyond individual project lifetimes.<\/span><\/p><h3>About FrontAg Nexus<\/h3><p>FrontAg Nexus is a PRIMA-supported project working to address climate change, natural resource scarcity and food-security challenges in the Mediterranean through climate-smart and water-saving agricultural solutions. The project combines technological innovation with socio-economic research and policy development, promoting a more integrated approach to water, energy, food and ecosystem management.<\/p><p>Learn more at <strong>frontagnexus.eu<\/strong>.<\/p><div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e187d74 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e187d74\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc12190 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc12190\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This publication reflects the views of the author only. The European Commission and PRIMA Foundation cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13bfc96 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"13bfc96\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-471aff8 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"471aff8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23d75a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"23d75a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/prima-logo-hor-1024x341.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-197\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/prima-logo-hor-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/prima-logo-hor-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/prima-logo-hor-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/prima-logo-hor.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c766d3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c766d3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EN_Co-fundedbytheEU_RGB_POS-1536x343-1-1024x229.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1629\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EN_Co-fundedbytheEU_RGB_POS-1536x343-1-1024x229.png 1024w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EN_Co-fundedbytheEU_RGB_POS-1536x343-1-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EN_Co-fundedbytheEU_RGB_POS-1536x343-1-768x172.png 768w, https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EN_Co-fundedbytheEU_RGB_POS-1536x343-1.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43f64fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43f64fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project (GA n\u00b0 [2242]) is part of the PRIMA programme supported by the European Union.<\/span><\/p><p><strong>FrontAg Nexus at a glance<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instrument: PRIMA, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total costs:\u00a0 \u20ac 3.206.895,00<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duration: 3 years, 1\/5\/2023 &#8211; 30\/4\/2026<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consortium: A total of 10 partners from 8 countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Morocco,Tunisia, T\u00fcrkiye)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FrontAg Nexus Homepage by PRIMA:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/qap.mel.cgiar.org\/projects\/1828\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/qap.mel.cgiar.org\/projects\/1828<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-beb7404 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"beb7404\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table><tbody><tr><td><p><b>Project Coordinator<\/b><\/p><\/td><td><p><b>Prof. Gertrud Buchenrieder<\/b><\/p><p><b>Dr. Wubneshe Biru<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universit\u00e4t der Bundeswehr M\u00fcnchen<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: gertrud.buchenrieder@unibw.de\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wubneshe.biru@unibw.de<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><b>Project Communication<\/b><\/p><\/td><td><p><b>Eleni Bolieraki<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reframe.food<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: ebolieraki@reframe.food<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5f4ffb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a5f4ffb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The workshop brought together representatives from government institutions, research organisations, universities, development partners, financial institutions, farmers\u2019 organisations and the private sector to discuss the development of a national roadmap for integrating WEFE policies in Jordan.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontagnexus.eu\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}