This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642224
On November 9 UNESCO and the FREEWAT Consortium organized a side event entitled, ‘Open source and free software for water resource management: the H2020 FREEWAT platform’ at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22), Marrakesh, Morocco . The speakers at the event were Rudy Rossetto, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna ( Italy) and Rotman Criollo (CSIC ) ( Spain). The aim of the meeting was to inform the participants of COP22 about the FREEWAT project and its global outcomes. It specifically aimed at showing how policy-makers benefit from FREEWAT through its ability to produce scientifically and technically sounding decision and policy making by adopting a participatory approach.