The SOWAEUMED project specific objectives are:

1. Establish a solid basis and cooperation platform for strategic partnerships among research centres and industries from the EU and MED countries to promote integration, to increase research excellence and to achieve scientific and technological critical mass. This is the key to develop both the existing potentialities and future EU-MED joint actions, i.e, the submission of high quality proposals for joint research under future Calls (NMP and ENV Work Programmes), and the INCO Programme.
2. Elaboration of a Joint Action Plan (JAP) to drive economic development through research, training-mobility and technological development activities in the selected topic or economic sector. This JAP may comprise regionally specific activities.
3. Gain first hand knowledge of the state-of-the-art in specific areas of solid waste and waste water treatment technologies research as a basis for joint research and establish a research agenda based on the pre-selected scientific topics of interest. Identify best practice amongst the partners in the selected research fields and define strategies to transfer this know-how to other interested laboratories in SOWAEUMED
4. Establish a permanent dialogue amongst the partners across different levels of responsibilities, to support the definition of the research priorities and the development of innovation policies of the EU and MED, in the field of the selected research topics..
5. Hiring of experienced researchers and young researchers to reinforce the human potential of the MED centres.
6. Foster relationships and exchange research results as the foundation for identifying robust state-of-the-art topics for future dialogues, involving Government – Academia and Enterprises (Triple Helix).
7. Acquisition and upgrading of specific research equipment of the partner laboratories in the MED centres in order to accomplish for the appropriate harmonization of the human resources, encouraging the common use of existing resources and access to the Large Infrastructures.
8. To foster the scientific and technological formation of specialist as well as to carry out recruiting actions of already formed scientists that will contribute to achieve the indicated critical mass.
9. Disseminate the research by means of the website, priority reports, road maps and collaborative models to key stakeholders, decision makers and influencing agencies impacting future S&T collaborative policies, work programmes and funding mechanisms in the EU and MED. Diffusion of FP7 calls, AECID calls, CDTI calls, etc.
10. To establish appropriate association and clustering with on going EU research projects on the related field with complementary objectives. This will provide both a synergism and best exploitation of the committed resources