WISIONS is pleased to present its 11th PREP brochure on the topic:

‘Solar Cooling – Using the Sun for Climatisation’. The new as well as previous PREP-brochures are free for download at WISIONS’ homepage http://www.wisions.net/pages/Downloads.htm.

The PREP-brochure on solar cooling contains good practice projects from
Spain: Solar cooling and solar pool heating in a detached house in Madrid;
USA: Solar cooling and heating of the Desert Outdoor Center, an educational and environmental centre;
Germany: Sustainable provision of adequate office climatisation with solar driven absorption technology;
China: Development of a solar-powered adsorption cooling system for public buildings
Short descriptions and contact details are available at http://www.wisions.net/pages/GoodPractic….

WISIONS also launched its new PREP-call on the topic ‘Water for Energy and Energy for Water’. Water and energy are precious resources, however, many people in developing countries lack access to save drinking water and sanitation, the withdrawals for agriculture are competing with water users from other sectors, and energy shortfalls due to increased energy demand are predicted. Therefore WISIONS aims to promote good practice examples dealing either with water as a driving agent for renewable energy (e.g. small hydro schemes, wave and tidal power plants) or with the provision of clean and safe drinking water by renewable energy (e.g. solar driven desalination, groundwater pumping or irrigation systems). Up to 5 good practice projects will be chosen for publication and will receive a grant of 500 Euros.

The application deadline is on February 16th, 2008.

The fields of interest include
- Projects concerned with socially and ecologically sound small hydropower
- Projects that focus on wave or tidal power
- Projects that t reduce water poverty by, for example, the desalination of salted or brackish water with the help of renewable energy
- Projects that support water treatment systems operating with renewable energy to improve the reuse of water and sanitation to ensure high water quality
- Projects that address the use of renewable energy for water pumping and resource efficient irrigation systems

How to participate
- Send a brief description of your successfully implemented good practice project dealing with water and renewable energy to  info at wisions.net
- WISIONS gives you feedback of the project’s qualification for application.
- In case of positive response fill in the application form and send it back to WISIONS.
- Your project will be published in a PREP brochure and/or on the WISIONS homepage.
- Has your project been decided for being published in the PREP brochure, you will additionally receive a grant of 500 Euros.
- All PREP brochures will be available in hardcopy and online. They will be distributed among networks, politicians, scientists and other relevant multipliers.

All necessary information is available at http://www.wisions.net/pages/PREP.htm.

If you are enthusiastic about our project we would like to ask you to spread the news about this call via forwarding the information to interested organisations, post it on your webpage or include it in your newsletter.

Thank you very much for your backing.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Maike Bunse (Ms.)
On behalf of the WISIONS Team

More information about WISIONS, the criteria,
previous issues of PREP-brochures, as well as the
necessary application form, you will find on
the webpage www.wisions.net
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Email:  info at wisions.net
Internet: www.wisions.net
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