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Elena Bresci [email protected]
Experiences abroad:
what we have learned
Welcome
Day
Firenze, 26 November 2020
Aula Magna, Scuola di Agraria, Firenze
DAGRI
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Outline
1. Which experiences ?
2. Where ?
3. For what ?
4. Which outcomes?
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1. Which experiences abroad?
Education Applied Research
1. Student mobility (in/out
2. Researcher mobility (in/out)
3. International agreements
4. International projects
5. …
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Honduras 2014, 2015
Guatemala 2015, 2017, 2018,
2019
1. Student mobility out
DAGRI
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1. Student mobility out
DAGRI
Etiopia 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Uppsala University, Sweden 2019-’20
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1. Researcher mobility in
DAGRI
Dott. Frank van Steenbergen MetaMeta
Research (The Netherlands) Dott. Mohamed Ouessar
(Institute of Arid Regions,
Tunisia)
Dott. Shimbahri Mesfin Gebreslase (Univ.
of Mekelle, Ethiopia)
(2018, 2019)
Prof. Edoardo Daly (Monash
University, Australia)
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Burundi Etiopia
Bolivia Bolivia
2. Researcher mobility out
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Experiences abroad (water sector)
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Mobility Year Country Activities
Students OUT 2014- 2019 Honduras (6) Guatemala (6), Nicaragua (2) Ethiopia (10) Bolivia (2) Mozambico (2) Brazil (1) Tanzania (1) Spain (1)
Traineeship/thesis Field Data collection
Students IN 2018-2019 Brazil (1) Ethiopia (1) Luxemburg (1)
Resarch Paper writing Project writing
Reserarcher OUT
2016-2019 Sudan (1) Burundi (1) Birmania (1) Tunisia (1) Guatemala (4)
Field activity Data collection Education Project writing
Researcher IN
2017-2019 Ethiopia (2) Tunisia (2) The Netherlands (1) Switzerland (2) Australia (1) Germany (1) Svezia (1), Brazil (3)
Research Paper writing Project writing Seminar International agreement signing
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2. Where ?
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Cooperation projects:
Water resources managament
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On-going or finished About to start
2. Where ?
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Water Harvesting Lab:
Collaboration
• Hashemite University (Jordan)
• Meta-Meta (the Netherlands)
• Rain Foundation (the Netherlands)
• Mekelle University (Ethiopia)
• Escuela Agricola Panamericana El Zamorano
(Honduras)
• Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (Brazil)
• Cactus NGO (Brazil)
• Embrapa (Brazil)
• UNESCO-IHE (the Netherlands)
• ICU – Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Italy)
• Istituto de capacitacion del Oriente (Bolivia)
• AICS, sede di Firenze (Italy)
• CEFA (Italy)
• Stockholm Resilience Center (Sweden)
• Uppsala University (Sweden)
• Center for Debelopment and Environment CDE
University of Bern (Switzerland)
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2. Where ?
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• Bottom up: the project proposal comes from a real need of the population, identified through a participatory approach
Cooperation to development
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3. For what ?
Local stakeholders involvement: for planning, design and implementation ensuring the success of the project
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3. For what ?
Training on the job: construction sites by beneficiaries
Appropriate technology: effectiveness, repeatability and sustainability (social, environmental and economic) of the use of technology
Cooperation to development
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4. Which outcomes ?
"Abroad" training activities represent:
Experiences during the university career as a student
fundamental and unrepeatable
• see other university realities • acquisition of skills • first window on work activity • human growth • establish friendship / collaboration relationships
Ensuring
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Topic Location Period abroad Remarks
Water harvesting assessment in
Nepal
Italy – Nepal 2-3 months
from April 2020
Possibility of field
missions
FUNDS AVAILABLE from
IRHA (Switzwerland)
The candidate will be involved in: • GIS analysis, participative mapping
• Diagnostic analysis of local food systems
• Water harvesting systems design
• Retention and groundwater recharge
Tesi disponibili Nepal
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Topic Location Period abroad Remarks
Development of low-cost EMAS
pump for Mozambique
Rooftop water harvesting
Italy –
Mozambique
2-3 months
from April 2020
Possibility of field
missions
The candidate will be involved in the design
and testing of low-cost hand pumps to be
used in the project “Quelimane Agricola” in
Mozambique (end 2021)
No personal funds
Tesi disponibili Mozambique
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Topic Location Period abroad Remarks
Water/Land resource/risk
management using geospatial data
and models
Firenze,
Perugia (Italy)
4 months, any time Managed in cooperation with
WARREDOC – University for Foreign
Students of Perugia.
Good level of GIS skills is required
Water balance and flow partitioning in SWAT model
Available thesis
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Topic Location Period abroad Remarks
Modelling of ephemeral rivers and
water harvesting systems in Tunisia
using SWAT
Italy - Tunisia 4-6 months
March 2020
September 2020
Possibility of field
missions
In cooperation with IRA Medenine
(Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture),
Tunisia
No personal funds
Tunisia
Available thesis
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Topic Location Period abroad Remarks
Modelling of ephemeral rivers and
water harvesting systems in Ethiopia
using SWAT
Italy -
Ethiopia
1-2 months in 2020 -
Possibility of field
missions
In cooperation with Mekelle University
Ethiopia.
No personal funds
Available thesis
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Thesis
Participatory Approach for Improvements in Spate Irrigation Systems, Giulio Castelli, 2014 (Etiopia)
Identifying suitable sites for underground dams using GIS technology: a case study in North-East Brazil, Beatrice Laurita, 2016.
Integration of GIS techniques with local knowledge in selection of suitable sites for sand dam construction: a case study of Kitui east sub-county, Kenya, Samuel Mburu, 2016.
Impacts of rainwater harvesting and rainwater management on upstream – downstream agricultural ecosystem services in two catchments of Southern Tigray, Ethiopia, Andrea Minelli, 2017
Impact of rain water management and soil and water conservation interventions on the hydrology of Flood Based Farming system - a case in Guguf Sub –Watershed in RayaValley, Tigray (Ethiopia), Meron Lakew Tefera, 2017
DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS: A CASE STUDY OF LOWER NYANDO RIVER BASIN, Dorrant Odhiambo Juma, 2017 (Kenya)
Integrated analysis of environmental hazard in “Valles Cruceños” region, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, Francesco Cantini, 2019
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Elena Bresci
https://www.dagri.unifi.it/vp-261-wh-lab.html
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