BODRUM MUNICIPALITY'S PROJECT APPROVED

While Bodrum Municipality continues its efforts to reduce the effects of climate change at the European Union level, work is starting to implement the FrontAg Nexus Project prepared by Bodrum Municipality – The Directorate of Climate Change & Zero Waste and accepted under the Horizon 2020 European Union Research and Innovation Program. 

Having been selected within the PRIMA Grant Program supported by the European Union and financed with a grant of approximately 3 million Euros, the project has been signed by all 10 partners. The FrontAg Nexus Project, led by Munich University and involving Turkey, Italy, Israel, Morocco, and Tunisia, will start in April.

The project proposed by Bodrum Municipality – The Directorate of Climate Change & Zero Waste, "The Effect of Climate-Smart & Water-Saving Precursor Agriculture on the WEFE (Water-Energy-Food Ecosystem) Connection Point in Arid Mediterranean Regions (FrontAg Nexus)," was selected as one of two projects in this field.

The FrontAg Nexus Project includes pioneering agricultural practices such as hydroponics (different soilless or semi-soilless plant cultivation systems that are typically vertical) and aquaponics (a combination of circulating aquaculture and hydroponics) that incorporate climate-smart and water-saving agricultural technologies. With this very project aims to demonstrate the socio-economic impacts of the water-energy-food ecosystem approach and to expand soilless agriculture practices in Bodrum to ensure safe food production, support farmers and local production, and create new employment opportunities.