SWAN Kick-off meeting

This Tempus IV funded project SWAN, “Towards Sustainable Water Resources Management in Central Asia”, had its kick off meeting in March at the University of Alicante that gathered top managers of universities from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Poland and Slovak Republic.

The meeting officially started after the speech of Dr. Manuel Palomar, Vice-Rector of Research, Development and Innovation of UA, in which he expressed his gratitude to the consortium for their support and participation of the project.

Vision and objectives of the project were then introduced by the project manager, Dr. Nizar Ayadi, who also carried out an open discussion with the consortium on the design of the new Master curricula. The project coordinator, Ms Denise Galvin, has also presentated the project calendar that explained clearly the timeline for each task in the first year project cycle.

As this it is the first meeting among the consortium, each representative was asked to give a presentation on their own institution, which brough the consortium the recent inforamtion both academically and politically.

Apart from the discussion of the project activities, the website and the extranet were also introduced so as to disseminate the project and faciliate the communication among the partners respectively.