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| "Colasu Partners at kick-off meeting in Strasbourg,
July 2002" |
Role of participants
The consortium is composed of six funded, principal partners and two funded, associated partners from different countries : three EU countries (France P1, Spain P5 and Portugal P6), one Mediterranean country in EU pre-accession phase (Malta P2) and two Mediterranean Partner countries (Morocco P3 and Tunisia P4, P10 and P11). Three other, not funded partners belong to the Mediterranean Partner countries Morocco (P7 and P9) and Tunisia (P8).
The partners are: - P1 (France) is the Center of Surface Geochemistry from Strasbourg University. It takes charge of the administrative and financial coordination (Workpackage 6) and it has also a scientific role as clay geochemistry and LCA specialists. P1 is leader of of Workpackage 4 (Global diagnosis). All communciation between the COLASU Consortium and the Commission will be channeled through P1.
- P2 (Malta) is Integrated Resources Management (IRMCo). P2 is responsible for the scientific coordination of the project (Workpackage 6). This task will be carried out by designing a specific project management methodology for COLASU and enable P2 to adopt a step-by-step approach to assist the partners throughout the project. The continuous task of guiding the scientific planning and management will be to ensure that the research efforts and tasks performed by the individual partners remain fully streamlined and in line with the expected results. As scientific coordinators P2, will also have the task to direct the scientific agenda and to draw up the interim and final scientific reports. As leader of Workpackage 5, P2 will additionally take the lead for the elaboration of lagoon management guidelines and recommendations, and will be providing specific expertise in the use of GIS and remote sensing for lagoon research.
- P3 (Morocco) is the Department of Geology in Rabat University. Its role is to carry out the sediment and water sampling of the lagoon located in Morocco and also to carry out the water analyses which have to be made rapidly to avoid chemical changes. P3 will take charge of the sedimentological study and the ecological study of Nador lagoon. As leader of Workpackage 3, they will take charge of the physical aspects of the study in complement and interaction with partner 5. P3 will be actively involved in Global Diagnosis and the elaboration of Lagoon Management Guidelines (Workpackages 4 and 5). P3 will maintain close contact with the stakeholder partners in Morocco (P7 and P9) throughout the project.
- P4 (Tunisia) is the Laboratory of Geochemistry and Environmental Geology in Tunis Faculty of Science. P4 is assisted by assistant contractors P10 and P11. P4's role is to carry out the sediment and water sampling of the lagoon located in Tunisia and also to carry out the water analyses which have to be made rapidly to avoid chemical changes. P4 will take charge of the sedimentological, P10 of the geomorphological and P11 of the hydrogeological studies of El Meleh lagoon. P4 will be actively involved in the Global Diagnosis and the elaboration of Lagoon Management Guidelines (Workpackages 4 and 5). Moreover, a specialist in socio-economics (P10) will take charge of the socio-economic aspects in Tunisia as well as in Morocco. Leaders for Workpackage 1 (Area Study), P4 will maintain close contact with the stakeholder partners in Tunisia (P8) throughout the project.
- P5 (Spain) is the Laboratory of Cristallography and Mineralogy of Sevilla University. Their role is to do the determination of heavy metals, speciation in relation with mineralogy and availability of these cations to the ecosystems, and potential risks. They are leader of Workpackage 3 for the chemical aspects in complement and interaction with the partner 3.
- P6 (Portugal) is the Technological and Nuclear Institute (ITN) in Lisbon. Their role is to study pollution geochemistry and monitoring using light element isotope analytical methods and Fe speciation. They are leader of Workpackage 2 (Data Collection).
- P7 (not funded partner from Morocco) is the Ministry of Environment and P8 (not funded partner from Tunisia) is the government's agency for coastal protection (APAL). They are considered not only as end user but also as suppliers since they will provide data for the human and environment interaction study.
- P9 (not funded partner from Morocco) is MAROST, a private fishery farm concern whose economic activity is strongly dependent on the lagoon ecosystem protection. P9 has expressed its readiness to provide data for the human and environment interaction study.
- P10 is the Faculty of Human Science in Tunis, Tunisia. P10 is assistant contractor to P4 and takes charge of the geomorphological studies of El Meleh (Tunisia) and Nador (Morocco) as well as the socio-economic aspects in both countries.
- P11 is the Commissariat Régional au développement eau-Agricole in Ben Arous region, Tunisia. P11 is assistant contractor to P4 and takes charge of the hydrogeological studies in El Meleh (Tunisia) and Nador (Morocco)
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