MUNA Euro-Med Summer School for Environmental Integration includes transversal research topics underway within the MUNA – Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement consortium and is proposed at EMCEI-2024 by the Interdepartmental Research Center for the Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), of Federico II University (Italy). The objective is to provide graduate students and young scientists with useful information toward understanding how the synergy between different disciplines and the interdisciplinary approach are fundamental elements for achieving the SDGs and, above all, to propose an emphasis on new research approaches to be applied to handle the challenging environmental issues that our society will be called upon to face in the coming decades.

The Summer School is chaired by Giulia Guerriero (MUNA, Italy) and Azzouz Kchikach (MUNA, Morocco) and scheduled on May 17, 2024 at 10:30–12:30 (see Scientific Program).

Invited Speakers

Lecture 1: Roles of Vegetation for Environmental Restoration

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  Massimo Fagnano

  Mediterranean and Middle East Universities Network Agreement (MUNA)
  Department of Agricultural Sciences, Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  

Lecture 2: Bioprospecting and Exploitation of Mediterranean Vegetation for the Production of Biofuel

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  Domenico Pirozzi

  Mediterranean and Middle East Universities Network Agreement (MUNA)
  Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  

Lecture 3: Use of Environmental-Omics and Metagenomic Applications for Hygiene Monitoring in a One-Health Approach

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  Federica Carraturo

  Mediterranean and Middle East Universities Network Agreement (MUNA)
  Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati (CeSMA), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Conveners

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  Giulia Guerriero

  Coordinator, Mediterraneanand Middle East Universities Network Agreement (MUNA)
  Topical Chief Editor, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)
  Associate Editor, Chemosphere (Elsevier)
  Associate Editor, European Zoological Journal (Taylor & Francis)
  Associate Editor, specialty: Biodiversity, Frontiers for Young Minds (Frontiers)
  Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  Society of Reproduction and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE)
  Asia and Oceania Society of Comparative Endocrinology (AOSCE)
  President of the Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  

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  Azzouz Kchikach

  Georessources, Geoenvironment and Civil Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco & Geology and Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir, Morocco
  

With the gradual establishment of the air-space-ground-sea integrated observation system and the rapid development of the next generation of Earth simulators, environmental science increasingly depends on various datasets from diverse observation sources. Our summer school is an inter-disciplinary platform dedicated to teaching graduate students and junior scientists how to use traditional diagnosis techniques (statistical, spectral, numerical, simulating, etc.) and emerging data mining methods (neural networks, deep learning, cloud computing, etc.) to reveal monitoring, diagnosis, and predictions of environmental evolutions and their impacts.

This summer school is chaired by Zhihua Zhang (China) and Nabil Khelifi (Germany) and scheduled on May 15, 2024 at 14:00–16:30 (see Scientific Program).

Invited Speakers

Lecture 1: Generating Environmental Evolution Maps from Sparse and Irregular Observations

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  Zhihua Zhang

  Taishan Distinguished Professor, Shandong University, China
  

Lecture 2: Linking Disciplines, Omics and AI to Improve Climate Change and Human Health

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  James Crabbe

  Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
  

Lecture 3: Statistical and Multivariate Approaches for Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Particulate Matter

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  Daniele Contini

  Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of National Research Council, ISAC-CNR, Lecce, Italy
  

Lecture 4: Pyroclastic Currents and Deposits: Observation and Impacts

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  Domenico M. Doronzo

  Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy
  

Conveners

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  Zhihua Zhang

  Taishan Distinguished Professor, Shandong University, China
  

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  Nabil Khélifi

  Senior Publishing Consultant
  EMCEI Founder & EMCEI General Supervisor
  EMCEI Publishing Manager
  Germany