Project Summary

Project  Number  

295107

Project  Acronym

OLITREVA

Project Title

Capacity Building for Sustainable Treatment and Valorization of Olive Mill Waste in Palestine

Project  Acronym

OLITREVA

Start  Date  

01-10-2011

End  Date

30-09-2014

Duration in months

36

Programme Acronym

FP7-INCO

Programme Type

Seventh Framework Programme

Subprogramme Area

Mediterranean Countries: Morocco,  Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian-administered Areas,  Lebanon, Syria

As for the whole Mediterranean, Olive Trees have designed the Palestinians landscape for thousands of years; it is the most important tree in Palestine due to its historical, cultural, religious and economic value. The holiness and the importance of the olive tree and its products are well recognized by the Palestinian people, which make olive tree distributed over the valleys, plains, mountains and hills. Despite the significant contributions of the olive oil sector in the economic and social development of the Palestine, it is becoming a source of serious environmental problems to which urgent solutions have to be addressed.

Despite the significant contributions of the olive oil sector in the economic and social development of the Palestine, it is becoming a source of serious environmental problems to which urgent solutions have to be addressed. Against this situation, efforts on this field should be focus on strengthening local research, including researchers and its institutions, and to build up local S&T capabilities. The level of domestic science and technology capability determines the success or failure of a given country to benefit from technology transfer and goes hand by hand with social progress and economic development. In this particular case, it is imperative to equip Palestinian research institutions with appropriate S&T capacities that will enable them to propose appropriate solutions to the environmental challenges caused by OMW.

OLITREVA  overall Objective

To reinforce RTD capacities of (ARIJ) in the sustainable management of OMW in the West Bank, by increasing networking and cooperation with European centres of top-level research and scientific excellence working in the same field.