Pilot Studies

JORDAN
Two pilot projects were implemented at the Ramtha WWTP and the Wadi Hassan WWTP aiming at raining the manager and staff at the station about how to install and open the database and about how to inter the data and derive conclusions. It was a preparation stage for the workshop which was held 8 weeks later on.

PALESTINE
Two training workshops were conducted in the West Bank and Gaza on the capabilities of the MEDAWARE Software; the training days were attended by ministries, municipalities, NGOs, students, treatment plant manager, and local consultant. In general more than 20 trainees were trained to use the MEADAWARE Software.

TURKEY
A hands-on pilot study was jointly held by METU and ITU project staff in METU Environmental Engineering Dept, computing lab in Ankara, where participants (20) were introduced to the MEDAWARE software and given the chance to work with the program.

MOROCCO

Diffusion of the capacities of the software and the validity of the results at summer was carried out at the time of the meetings organized with:

- Students of Master of the engineering of the environment, 2007 (10 participants).
- interested members of the laboratories of the Faculty of Science D' El Jadida, 2007( 12 participants).
- Person in charge for research on the level of the regional office of the agricultural development for Doukkala (ORMVAD), 2007 (in programming).
-  Person in charge for wastewater treatment at the level for the Hassania school of the Public works (EHTP), 2007. (in programming).
- Person in charge for the ministry for the interior on the level of the province of El Jadida, 2007. (in programming).
- Person in charge for the MATEE on the level of the province of
El Jadida. 2007(in programming)..

The participants followed the accesses to the software and its operation.

Diffusion of the capacities of the software near the representatives of the ONEP, OCP and engineers of EHTP at the time of a defence of a thesis concerning the dimensioning of a station of wastewater treatment. 13th June 2007

CYPRUS
In Cyprus, instead of organizing a Workshop or a Seminar to present the software tool, the Interested Parties were contacted through personal contact (telephone conversation or meeting) as well as electronically. The interested parties (Engineers from Government Departments, Sewerage Boards, and Municipalities etc) were provided as a start with the followings:

• General Information about MEDAWARE PROJECT
• Power Point Presentation of the Tool
• Website address of the tool and instruction how to Register and Start Up

The Advantages of this approach were:

• Wide dissemination of this Software Tool
• Personal contact with each potential user
• The user has the opportunity to "Work" with the software tool
• The user may provide feedback (comments or suggestions) to improve the tool