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.