Scientific Program

Sustain Tunis 2026

Tue, June 2, 2026

09:00 - 18:00
Opening, Plenaries, Keynotes, Thematic Sessions
Sustain Tunis 2026

Wed, June 3, 2026

09:00 – 18:00
Plenaries, Keynotes, Thematic Sessions and Social Dinner
Sustain Tunis 2026

Thu, June 4, 2026

09:00–12:00
Final Sessions & Closing Ceremony
Overall Schedule
Date Time Event
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 09:00 - 18:00 Opening of Sustain Tunis 2026
Plenary sessions, Keynotes, Thematic Sessions
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 09:00 - 18:00 Scientific Sessions (Themes A–D), Posters, Networking
Social Dinner (evening)
Thursday, June 4, 2026 09:00 - 12:00 Final Sessions & Closing Ceremony
Book of Abstracts
Full program with abstracts will be published on May 18, 2026. Deadlines are listed on the Important Dates page.

General Themes & Topics

Theme Topics
A Hydrological Monitoring and Modelling
  1. Innovative monitoring of water quantity and quality
  2. Earth observations for monitoring of hydrological systems
  3. Citizen science, text mining, and proxies as alternative approaches for water monitoring
  4. Data-driven and process-based modelling for water management
  5. Multi-scale hydrological modelling and forecasting under changing climate
  6. Socio-hydrological modelling for water management
  7. Digital twin for timely and effective decision making
B Sustainable Groundwater Resources Management
  1. Sustainable use of coastal aquifers
  2. Groundwater vulnerability and impacts of climate change
  3. Groundwater management in arid and semi-arid regions
  4. Sustainable use of groundwater in the Mediterranean basin
  5. Groundwater sustainability from local to global scales
  6. Managed artificial recharge
  7. Coupled surface water and groundwater modelling
C Water Cycle and Society
  1. Governance and policy towards sustainable water management
  2. Stakeholder engagement as a social learning space for co-design of mitigation options
  3. Community perspective for fostering water knowledge co-creation
  4. Multisectoral water management towards policy harmonization and alignment
  5. Cultural heritage for the development of sustainable water management: lessons learned from past
  6. Optimization approaches for water use under scarcity
D Ecosystem Protection and Restoration
  1. The water–energy–food ecosystem nexus approach to sustainability
  2. Biodiversity monitoring and assessment
  3. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to restore ecosystems addressing multiple social challenges
  4. Ecosystem functioning under increasing pressures
  5. Ecosystem protection and restoration in drylands

Journal Publication

Selected papers will be published in Special Collections of:

All submissions will undergo the journals’ regular peer-review processes.