ÖFSE organized workshops in Amman to discuss results of the international FUSE project.
As part of the international research project FUSE, ÖFSE staff members Karin Küblböck, Ines Omann and Hannes Grohs organized and conducted stakeholder workshops in Amman, Jordan, from 6 to 9 September 2021. During these workshops, ÖFSE's research partners, Stanford University and Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), presented their research results of the interdisciplinary project, which has been running since May 2018. In interactive formats, about 70 workshop participants gave feedback on those results, discussed further steps and exchanged ideas across their focus areas.
The workshops built on an initial series of stakeholder workshops in March 2019, where the FUSE team gathered challenges and coping strategies related to water, food and energy as well as visions for a sustainable Amman in 2050. After two and a half years of intensive work on integrating these perspectives into the research, the FUSE team was pleased to be able to present and discuss the results and receive valuable feedback. The workshops were made possible by close cooperation with the Jordanian organization MIRRA .
Amman Workshop Video
Workshop Presentations 2021
- Project Intro by Steven Gorelick (pdf)
- Project Results by Steven Gorelick and Christian Klassert (pdf)
Group Pictures Workshops 2021
The FUSE project is now in its final year. We are delighted to have maintained important, enduring connections with stakeholders, experts, and modelers with whom we engaged throughout our work and we present here a summary of our latest results in Jordan.
Our team of natural and social scientists and engineers has been actively engaged in understanding the intricacies of the food-water-energy system in the Amman region as well as the Jordan Valley and the Highlands. The Jordan Water Model was our major accomplishment and major results are in the project summary here . We are delighted that our Living Lab workshops in Amman in September were so well attended and overwhelmingly successful.
