2017
SWAT training, communicate, from 5-7 October 2017, Hammamet, Tunisie
5 October 2017
From 5th to 7th October 2017, a SWAT training given by Dr José-Miguel Sanchez-Pérez (CNRS, Toulouse, France), Dr Sabine Sauvage (CNRS, Toulouse, France), Dr Didier Orange (IRD, Montpellier, France) and PhD Walid Ben Khélifa (INRGREF, Tunis, Tunisie), on “Introductory SWAT Course” has been delivered for 16 researchers, students and engineers as side-event of the international seminar “Colloque-Formation international Eau-Société-Climat’2017” (ESC-2017), organized by Prof. Noureddine Gaaloul (INRGREF, Tunis, Tunisia) at Hammamet, Tunis (Tunisia) from 2nd to 7th October, co-funding by PHI-UNESCO (FRIEND-Water network), INRGREF, IRESA and IRD, with the key support from ASTEE-Tunisie.
During the SWAT training, 8 countries from West Africa were represented (Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia), 20% from Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia). This international cooperation South-South-North has opened a large numbers of research opportunities on River Basin Management, Hydrology and Ecohydrology.
SWAT Course for SUDOE Territory
26 September 2017
CNRS in Toulouse, France under the European project INTERREG SUDOE VB AGUAMOD, is hosting a training course taught by Professor Karim Abbaspour of EAWAG (SWITZERLAND) from the 25-27 of September. The course focuses on the use of SWAT-CUP tools for self-calibration and analysis of uncertainties around the SWAT model. The partners of the project will be meeting all week to work on the modeling of the French, Spanish and Portuguese watersheds of the SUDOE territory. Throughout the week, the partners will discuss the technical aspects and progress in the modeling projects of the SUDOE territory.
