3‑year project • 6 Work Packages​

AQUEDUCT Activity Structuration

The AQUEDUCT activities cover a three-year period and are structured into six interconnected workpackages. Two of these WP are fully cross-cutting: one focuses on leading and managing the project (WP0), the other (WP5) is dedicated to communication, dissemination and exploitation of the project outcomes for targeted users and audiences.

6 Work Packages
3 years Timeframe
Field → Catchment

  • WP0 – Leading the Project

This involves coordination activities, networking between scientific partners and communicating with the PRIMA teams, with PRIMA‑IS, with funding agencies and with institutions. It also ensures the smooth progress of the project.

The specific objectives of WP0 are:

• to coordinate the consortium and all activities between the involved partners, across work‑packages, and between countries
• to monitor all project activities
• to ensure the deliverables will be provided
• to ensure the reporting and communication required by the PRIMA office
The WP0 comprises 2 main tasks.
Task 0.1: Managing the project and coordinating the activity
Task 0.2: Communicating internally.

  • WP1 – Characterising, Understanding and Quantifying Water at the Field and Stand Scalet

WP1 aims at characterising, understanding and quantifying water availability and fluxes, in order to provide new water accounts and as well as to design and test innovative tools for water accounting.

WP1 addresses the local scale, namely at the crop field scale in irrigated and rainfed agrosystem and the vegetation stand scale in natural or semi-natural ecosystems.

WP1 comprises 2 main tasks.

Task 1.1: Providing water accounts under cultivated, natural and semi-natural vegetation covers at the field and stand scale

Task 1.2: Designing and testing new numerical and modelling approaches to account for water at the field and stand scale

  • WP2 – Designing, Testing and Implementing Integrated Accounting Tools

This involves coordination activities, networking between scientific partners and communicating with the PRIMA teams, with PRIMA‑IS, with funding agencies and with institutions. It also ensures the smooth progress of the project.
 

The specific objectives of WP0 are:

• to coordinate the consortium and all activities between the involved partners, across work‑packages, and between countries
• to monitor all project activities
• to ensure the deliverables will be provided
• to ensure the reporting and communication required by the PRIMA office
 
The WP0 comprises 2 main tasks.
Task 0.1: Managing the project and coordinating the activity
Task 0.2: Communicating internally`,

  • WP3 – Innovative water accounting under water shortage scenario: evaluation with stakeholders

Evaluation with stakeholders of innovative accounting under water shortage scenario.

• Identify, for every site, solutions of adaptation to various situations : water scarcity / water shortage / water stress.

Think / define various indicators: resource status, water uses, water sharing and use

efficiency.

• Test / analyse the added-values of new water accounts (WP4) provided by new tools (WP2) for the water and land-use governance.

WP3 comprises 4 main tasks.

Task 3.1: Designing and spatialising climate scenario

Task 3.2: Building scenario of land use, farming system and water resource management

Task 3.3: Identifying missing water accounts

Task 3.4: Analysing the relevance of new water accounts within water management decision processes and governance

  • WP4 – Accounting for water in typical Mediterranean catchments

The objective of WP4 is to implement and to run integrated tools for providing water accounts under the scenarios of land use, land cover and farming system,

The implementation of accounting tools for :

The agrosystems and ecosystems (WP1) and

The full integrated system (catchment) is performed,

Implementation : considering current situations, but also possible future solutions (regarding farming systems or vegetation cover) and future situations (water restriction, climate change) identified with stakeholders in WP3

WP4 comprises 2 main tasks.

Task 4.1: Converting narrative scenario to modelled scenario

Task 4.2: Water accounts for scenario based on simulations

  • WP5 – Disseminating

The objective of WP5 is to specify and implement the dissemination and exploitation strategy and plan. The WP5 ensures that results and outcomes effectively reach and to impact the targeted users and audiences

WP5 comprises 3 main tasks.

Task 5.1 Data managing and sharing

Task 5.2 Externally communicating

Task 5.3 Disseminating