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8:45 AM
9:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
10:35 AM
10:45 AM
10:55 AM
11:05 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
11:45 AM
12:40 PM
1:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:50 PM
3:00 PM
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
3:45 PM
4:00 PM

Connection of the participants
OPENING SESSION

Opening of the conference by Cyril Moulin, Director of MISTRALS

Welcome speeches by the organizers
Thierry Lavoux: President of Plan Bleu
Alain Schuhl: Chief Research Officer of CNRS
Eric Berton: President of Aix-Marseille University
Aurélie Biancarelli-Lopes: Deputy Mayor of Marseille in charge of research, student life and higher education
Round Table: role of science-policy interface in decision-making
Grammenos Mastrojeni: Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, in charge of Energy and Climate Action
Gaetano Leone: Coordinator of the UN Mediterranean Action Plan
Karim Amellal: Ambassador for the Mediterranean
Alain Perea: Vice-President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean
CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETIES SESSION
Insights from the historical and paleo records of storms and floodse

Marie-Alexandrine Sicre (CNRS, LOCEAN)
Laurent Dezileau (Université de Caen-Normandie, M2C)
Past socio-ecological systems: complexity of local socio- environmental dynamics and rapid climate change

Laurent Lespez (Université Paris Est-Créteil, LGP)
Drop of sediment transport to the sea by the large wadis of the Maghreb: impacts of the dams and environmental consequences

Gil Mahé (IRD, HSM)
Mediterranean agroecosystems and agrodiversity: the case of past and present dynamics of the Sicilian islands

Claudia Speciale (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology)
SACOLEVE: spatial and temporal adaptation of a traditional Mediterranean fishery facing regional change: combining history and ecology to study past, present and future of sponge harvesting

Thierry Perez (CNRS, IMBE)
Exchange with the public (15’)
Break
Round Table(40’)
Fabrice Bernard: Europe and International Delegate, Conservatoire du Littoral (coastal protection agency)
Taoufik Souami: Professor at Laboratoire Techniques Territoires Sociétés (Laboratory of Technics Territories Societies)
Bernard Valero: Ambassador, Director General of AViTeM (agency for sustainable Mediterranean cities and territories)
Exchange with the public (15’)
BREAK & NETWORKING

Virtual rooms are available to participants during the break for networking purposes
SESSIONS POSTERS

2 sessions of 30 minutes (15 posters per session)
WATER CYCLES AND EXTREME EVENTS SESSION
The paradox of water cycle extremes in the Mediterranean

Philippe Drobinski (CNRS, LMD)
Better understanding of the key ingredients of Mediterranean extreme precipitations

Samira Khodayar (Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies)
Towards integrated understanding and prediction of heavy precipitations, flash-floods and their impacts

Hélène Roux (Toulouse INP, IMFT)
Heat waves, droughts and water resources in the Mediterranean

Pere Quintana Segui (Observatori de l’Ebre, universitat Ramon Llull – CSIC)
Dense water formation induced by strong winter winds: impacts on marine ecosystems and transport of pollutants

Xavier Durrieu de Madron (CNRS, CEFREM)
Exchange with the public (15’)
Break
Round Table (40’)
Charafat Afilal: Former Minister Delegate to the Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, in charge of water (Morocco)
Alice Aureli: Chief Groundwater Systems and Settlements Section, International Hydrological Programme (IHP), UNESCO - Division of Water Sciences
Exchange with the public (15’)

8:45 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
9:30 AM
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:50 PM
2:30 PM
2:45 PM
4:30 PM

Connection of the participants
POLLUTION AND CONTAMINANTS SESSION
Sources and transfer of contaminants in the Mediterranean

Karine Desboeufs (University of Paris, LISA) Olivier Radakovitch (Aix Marseille University, CEREGE)
Study of contamination at the land-sea interface : two approaches of the North and South of the Mediterranean

Chrystelle Bancon-Montigny (University of Montpellier, HSM)
Air pollution in the Mediterranean

Agnès Borbon (CNRS, LAMP)
Process studies at the air-sea interface in connection with desert dust deposits in the Mediterranean

Karine Desboeufs (University of Paris, LISA)
Plankton, key link in the transfer of chemical contaminants within the pelagic marine ecosystems

Daniela Bănaru (Aix-Marseille University, MIO)
Exchange with the public (15’)
Break
Round Table (40’)
Pierre Boissery: Sea expert, Rhone-Mediterranean and Corsica water agency
Gabino Gonzalez: Head of Office, Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea
Exchange with the public (15’)
SESSIONS POSTERS

2 sessions of 30 minutes (15 posters per session)
BREAK & NETWORKING

Virtual rooms are available to participants during the break for networking purposes
SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Presentation of the MedECC report

Wolfgang Cramer, Coordinator of MedECC
Presentation of the RED2020 report

François Guerquin Director of Plan Bleu
Exchange with the public (20’)
Break
Round Table (1h30’)
Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann: General Secretary of the French Facility for Global Environment
Rajae Chafil: Director of the Climate Change Competence Center of Marocco "4C MAROC"
Fatima Driouech: Vice-chair WG1 of the IPCC
Jean Jalabert: Director of the Tour du Valat
Arnau Queralt: Director of the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS) and chair of the EEAC Network
Exchange with the public (15’)
SESSIONS POSTERS

2 sessions de 30 minutes (15 posters par session)

8:45 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
9:30 AM
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
11:25 AM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:20 PM
1:30 PM
1:40 PM
1:50 PM
2:00 PM
2:15 PM
2:30 PM
4:00 PM

Connection of the participants
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY SESSION
Overview of key questions concerning the condition and functioning of the biodiversity in the Mediterranean

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas (CNRS, CEFE)
Insularity and fragmentation in the Mediterranean: from underwater islands to the archipelagos of knowledge

Franck Richard (University of Montpellier, CEFE)
The Mediterranean forest in a changing environment: how climate change affects its biodiversity and its functioning?

Virginie Baldy (Aix-Marseille University, IMBE)
The winter convection and its role in the organization of microbial populations

Pascal Conan (Sorbonne University, LOMIC)
Pastoral areas maintained by local human communities

Pablo Dominguez (CNRS, GEODE)
Exchange with the public (15’)
Break
Round Table (40’)
Khalil Attia: Director of the CAR/ASP-UNEP/MAP
Giovanbattista DeDato: Senior Forestry Expert - Silva Mediterranea Secretariat, FAO
Antonio Troya, Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Exchange with the public (15’)
BREAK & NETWORKING

Virtual rooms are available to participants during the break for networking purposes
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY SESSION
Climate change in the Mediterranean

Piero Lionello (University of Salento and Centro Euro - Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici)
Climate change impacts on water resources

Mehrez Zribi (CNRS, CESBIO)
Climate change impacts on renewable energy

Robert Vautard (CNRS, LSCE)
Climate change impacts on the Mediterranean sea

Gabriel Jorda (University of the Balearic Islands)
Recent advances in climate modelling for impacts studies

Erika Coppola (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Exchange with the public (15’)
Break
Round Table (50’)
Pascal Bergeret: Director of the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM - IAMM)
Jean Jouzel: Climatologist, Emeritus Research Director at CEA
David Moncoulon: Head of Modeling and R&D department – Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR) (central reinsurance fund)
Alix Roumagnac: President of Predict Services
Exchange with the public (15’)
CLOSING
François Guerquin: Director of Plan Bleu
Joël Guiot: Coordinator of MedECC
Cyril Moulin: Director of MISTRALS