Water research in the Mediterranean: challenges and perspectives. The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)

This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness through the project SCARCE of Consolider-Ingenio 2010 program (CSD2009-00065) and the projects CARBONET (CGL2011-30474-C02-01), GEISTTAR (CTM 2011-27163), WATERFATE (CTM2012-38314-C02-01), (DEGRAPHARMAC-CTQ2010-21776-CO2-02), CDTI INNPRONTA ITACA project (IPT-2011102), MBRControl (CDTI - OHL MedioAmbiente INIMA SAU) andARCOS (CGL2012-33033). It also received funding from the European Community 7th Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 603629-ENV-2013-6.2.1-GLOBAQUA, ECsafeSEAFOOD (FP7 KBBE 311820), ENDETECH (FP7-ENV-2011-Eco-innovation), and SEA-on-a-CHIP. Also, the Marie Curie Reintegration Grants (2010-RG-277050; FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG 303946) and the Marie Curie Initial Training Network SANITAS (ITN-289193). M. Pijuan also acknowledges the Ramon y Cajal research fellowship (RYC-2009-04959) provided by the Spanish Government.

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