As part of the implementation of the European Green Living Areas governance project, within the Interreg Euro-MED programme, the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolitan Area, represented by Bernard MASSABO and Alison TORTI, took part on 19 and 20 March, in Krakow, in the “Let’s cooperate!” event organised by the Interreg Europe programme, focusing on the “Policy Learning Platform” developed by this programme.

This tool brings together good practices and public policies developed as part of European projects, so that they can be shared and appropriated by other interested stakeholders.

For example, as part of the Blue Green City project conducted by the Metropole from 2019 to 2022, the Metropole was able to contribute to the Policy Learning Platform by highlighting one of its best practices developed by the Environment Department: the creation of a black grid. The project also succeeded in changing regional policy, take into account nature-based solutions, not only as a way of mitigating climate change, but also as a way of adapting to climate change, in future calls for projects proposed by the French southern Region.

Based on this experience with the Interreg Europe programme, we have taken the initiative of asking the Interreg Europe programme to open up its platform to other European programmes, in particular Interreg Euro-MED, so that the Green Living Areas project can benefit from the good practices existing on the platform, and also contribute to enriching the platform with the project’s current and future results.

LinkedIn post on the event: Europe let’s cooperate | Interreg Europe

The Green Living Areas project is co-financed by the Interreg Euro-MED programme with a grant of €3,199,493.12.

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The City of Nice organised a conference on the topic of ‘Culture and ecology towards a sustainable Mediterranean, on 28 and 29 November. The event was held on the official date of the World Mediterranean Day and brought together key players in the field of culture and sustainable transition in the Mediterranean, committed to implementing eco-responsible solutions based on cultural and societal resilience.

The Conference highlighted the efforts made within the City of Nice and its metropolis to tackle climate change, particularly in relation with sea rise threats and their consequences.

Discussions focused on cultural approaches raising awareness and developing collective and individual knowledge of the environmental threats facing the Mediterranean region.

Culture in the broadest sense of the term was explored in the course of these discussions, tackling topics such as management of natural sea and land sites, art, literature, philosophy, music, tourism and gastronomy, as parts of the overall eco-responsible change factors towards a sustainable transition for the region.

The event was organised as part of the ‘Cultivated Territories’ decentralised cooperation project, in partnership with the Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AVITEM), and was attended by the participating local authorities and institutions. Its aim is to create Euro-Mediterranean synergies in the face of the contemporary cultural and climatic challenges facing the Mediterranean.

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As part of the project aiming at revamp the Tunis Medina heritage, the “CoPaM” association is launching a crowdfunding campaign, as of 9 January 2025, to finance the first stages of the project.

This funding will contribute to the project dedicated to restore the urban heritage and socio-economic and cultural rehabilitation of the Medina, the ancient historical Quarter in the heart of Tunis, in particular by setting up training programmes on the management and techniques applied to historical buildings, in partnership with the private sector, civil society and local authorities.

Discover the pre-campaign (in French)

The CoPam Association (in French)

 

The BeMed Association is launching its 2^nd Call for projects in the Mediterranean islands (APIM). Through this call, BeMed wishes to extend its support for actions to reduce plastic pollution and for the sustainable solutions implemented, to improve understanding of local contexts and issues, to encourage the creation of partnerships and collaboration between local stakeholders and to build on actions already underway in the Mediterranean.

With 106 projects already supported, the laureates will be joining a network of players committed to this joint effort and will be able to take part in the “CapiMed Island” capitalisation programme, which will specifically bring together the island members of their network to further encourage collaboration, the transfer of results and have an impact on policies.

The conditions are as follows:

• Up to €100,000 (maximum 70% of the total project budget)
• Project Call open until Wednesday 10 July 2024 (11am CET)
• Lasting up to 24 months
• Start of activities: not earlier than 1^st February 2025

Information and application

Contact (Till 01 July) : ami@beyondplasticmed.org.

 

 

 

 

 

The necessary changes and inevitable challenges posed by climate change and the adaptation to its effects, especially in the Mediterranean context, call for an ecological transformation based on decarbonisation and the establishment of a “Green City” model at the core of the urban space.

Taken its expertise in ecological transition and carbon neutrality commitment by 2050, Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur (MNCA) has taken the lead of the Dialogue4LivingAreas, of the Mission Green Living Areas project, a European project for institutional dialogue on Green Living Areas, part of the European Interreg Euro – Med Programme 2021 – 2027.

Developing public dialogue around green living areas

This European project, an integral part of the Green Living Areas mission, proposes to create an innovative support mechanism for the main Euro-Mediterranean stakeholders (local/national authorities, European institutions, associations, networks, cooperation programmes, macro-regional strategies), aimed at including their active participation in an Institutional Dialogue Community, strengthening Mediterranean cooperation through the improvement and transfer of initiatives and public policies.

The project focuses on the dynamics of cities as ‘Green Living Areas’, targeting climate change and risk prevention, energy efficiency, renewable energies and citizens’ communities engaged in energy management by promoting sustainable urban transportation, improving water and waste management and developing urban and peri-urban agriculture.

It therefore carries 3 objectives:

– Better identify stakeholders and public policies, and the potential for cooperation,

– Encourage exchanges between the various institutional levels and support the sharing/transfer of experience and practices,

– Improve strategic coordination at national, European and Mediterranean level between the main public policymakers.

The activities of this 7-year project will shape within a tree structure, progressively increasing the number of players involved and the scope of actions towards establishing a sustainable Euro-Mediterranean Institutional Dialogue on Green Living Areas (Dialogue4LivingAreas), with demonstrated results consistent with the 2030 objectives.

Ecological transition, spearheading Nice Côte d’Azur’s sustainable strategy

Nice Côte d’Azur, committed since 2008 to becoming the green capital of the Mediterranean, has been investing in a range of green projects, including soil permeabilisation, new natural areas’ creation, greening schools and urban agriculture. It particularly aims at creating an additional 70 hectares of green space, helping to counter global warming and improve its residents’ wellbeing.

MNCA, a major player in Euro-Mediterranean decentralised cooperation

This new project is part of a series of European projects conducted by MNCA, including MEDNICE, SEACAP 4 SDG and IRIS (energy efficiency and performance), BLUE GREEN CITY (green and blue infrastructure), MEDiate and ALPIMED CLIMA (risk management and climate change), etc.

MNCA is also a major player in Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, implementing its strategy and steering its actions at local and Euro-regional level. Nice Côte d’Azur chairs and leads the EUROMED Cities Network, housing its General Secretariat since 2012.

MNCA’s Euro-Mediterranean roadmap is structured around three main areas:

• Green, intelligent and attractive cities
• Climate, health and safety risks
• Culture, memory and youth.

Presentation of the project

Partnership

• Lead partner: Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur (France)
• PP2: Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) (Spain)
• PP3 : University of Patras (Greece)
• PP4 : Polis Network (Belgium)
• PP5 : West Croatia Regional Energy Agency (REGEA) (Croatia)
• PP6 : Infrastrutture Recupero Edilizio Energia (IRE) (Italy)
• PP7 : Larnaca District Development Agency (ANETEL) (Cyprus)
• PP8 : Lisboa E – nova Agency (LEN) (Portugal)
• PP9: Energy Efficiency Agency of Albania (EEA) (Albania)

Project duration: 7 years (January 2023 – September 2029)

Total budget: €4m

Three Work Packages

•  WP 1 Reuse: Mapping the public stakeholders who define/implement public policies

Coordination: Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC)

•  WP 2 Transfer: A cross-disciplinary Euro-Mediterranean Living Lab.

Coordination: University of Patras

• WP 3 Coordination: Community.

Coordination: Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur

 

Green Living Areas is co-funded by the Interreg Euro-MED programme with a budget of 3 199 493.12 € .

 

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