The Mediterranean library of knowledge
Explore the ENI CBC Med Programme's library of deliverables: a comprehensive digital repository of diverse resources tailored for the Mediterranean region. Discover in-depth studies, innovative strategies, and practical tools spanning tools addressing key environmental, economic, and social issues. The library is your go-to source to find valuable knowledge to inspire new collaborative projects driving fair, sustainable and inclusive development across the Mediterranean.
GREENLAND: NEETs profiling and roadmap report
This report has been prepared on behalf of nine partners working in seven countries (Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Portugal, Greece) under the GREENLAND project. It aims to map the Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) and develop a roadmap focused on the potential of enhancing their employability within the Green and Circular Economy (GaCE), while providing equal opportunities to both genders. The analysis is based on a first phase that focused on a Labor Market Analysis to identify sectors with the greatest potential for economic growth and for offering employment opportunities; a second phase that focused on compiling a database of NEETs and women on the one hand and SMEs and other companies on the other hand in relevance to project actions; a third and final phase that provides a roadmap and recommendations for training courses that have the potential to bridge NEETs to the labor market while promoting a GaCE.
GREENLAND: deepened labour market analysis report
This study, implemented under the GREENLAND project, falls within the broader scope of a Market Analysis and Data Profiling assignment and constitutes the first phase. The overall aim of this phase is to identify sectors with the greatest potential for economic growth and for offering employment opportunities for the Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) and Women within Green and Circular Economies (GaCEs), reducing the mismatch between their skills and the labor market. A closer look at the economies of the seven addressed countries (Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Portugal, Greece) highlights the worrying trends while simultaneously accentuating a potential for the promotion of social inclusion and fight against poverty through providing young people (especially NEETs) and women with marketable skills.
The RE-MED Community digital platform
The RE-MED Community digital platform is a multicultural space for sharing information resources, training courses, job and internship offers, "Base Experts" skills offers, calls for tenders and events related to RE-MED project. It is also a marketplace that allows the publication of offers of materials and equipment (for sale or rent) related to the management and valorisation of Construction and Demolition Waste.
The RE-MED community mobile application
A mobile application for reporting illegal dumping sites which will create a new relationship between the public sphere and its users. By transmitting the photo and geolocation of the dump he/she encounters in the public space, the citizens is empowered to improve his/her living conditions. This activity will include the design of the application with all partners. Construction, uploading, updating and maintenance will be carried out by Dynedoc.
RE-MED: guide opérationnel - valorisation DC&D en technique routière
The RE-MED project aims to transfer and experiment enabling technologies that allow construction and demolition waste (CDW) to be transformed into resources for the construction and maintenance of roads.
The purpose of this guide is to provide operational specifications concerning the environmental acceptability of alternative materials made from some CDW in road construction. The document specifies the framework within which they must be manufactured and the restrictions on their use and application and it sets out the obligations of the various parties involved in a road project, with a view to ensuring that a record is kept of worksites where CDW has been used.
This application guide is primarily intended for:
- Owners and contractors of construction and public works sites, to enable them to ensure optimum management of their waste;
- Owners and contractors wishing to use alternative materials made from CDW in road construction;
- manufacturing and application companies, so that they can offer materials made from CDW offering controlled environmental guarantees.
WEF-CAP: white papers - Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia
The WEF-CAP project tries to support sustainable and resilient agri-food sector production, thus improving the energy and water efficiency: renewables, wastewater treatment, water harvesting and reuse, etc.
Successful technologies in Water -Energy - Food Nexus (WEFN) integrated approach have been analysed and catalogued. In this section there are 3 white papers which demonstrates the importance of adopting this integrated approach and in particular analyze the cases of some partner countries of the project: Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia.
WEF-CAP: policy briefs
WEF-CAP project seeks to consolidate a water, energy, and food regional meta cluster that fosters cooperation and tech-transfer while mainstreaming policy impact for innovation-driven growth.
In this section there are 3 policy briefs related to Water, Energy and Food Nexus (WEFN):
- The Way Forward for the Mediterranean Region in the Face of Insecurities
- Opportunities for an Integrated Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach in the MENA region: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon & Tunisia
- The Technology Transfer and Capitalization of Water Energy Food NEXUS: Evaluation of WEF Nexus best practices for replication in the Mediterranean region.
SIRCLES Good Practices Booklet: Supporting Circular Economy Opportunities for Employment and Social Inclusion
SIRCLES is a consortium of 7 Mediterranean countries (Spain, Greece, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy) led by the Waste Agency of Catalonia, and with 9 partners. These partners have applied different approaches adapted to the situation of each region, but sharing the same goal: the creation of job opportunities within the unemployed young people and women at risk of social exclusion.
The good practices booklet shows:
1. The composting area in Vila-seca, Spain
2. The composting area in Andros, Greece
3. The composting plant in Beitello, Palestine
4. The composting area in Aqaba, Jordan
5. The composting area in Hbaline, Lebanon
6. The composting area in Bizerte, Tunisia
7. The sensitizing campaign in Puglia, Italy
SIRCLES guideline of best practices for successful biowaste recycling
This document lists best practices linked to the separate collection and management of organic waste. It has been prepared with the support of all partners of the SIRCLES project in order to define innovative management plans and NEETs and women engagement in biowaste collection and treatment.
SIRCLES policy toolkit for circular economy employment and training
SIRCLES project aimed to develop skills and favour new job opportunities in the circular economy sector, in the biowaste one, providing marketable opportunities especially for NEET & Women in the involved target areas (Spain, Greece, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy). The planned pilots for biowaste processing have been implemented according to the Life Cycle Thinking approach and breaking down the process into different phases. The development of capacities along with job insertion and the engagement of local entities aimed to ensure sustainability beyond the project duration.
This toolkit is organised into four chapters: the chapter 1 delves into the SIRCLES model for biowaste, highlighting its importance and potential in achieving circularity; chapter 2 analyses the work context and methodology, providing insights into the research environment and the methods employed in the study; chapter 3 includes a section on the pilots conducted by SIRCLES, presenting the lessons learned from these practical implementations. Finally, chapter 4 offers potential future scenarios and proposes policy measures that can support and enhance the implementation of the SIRCLES model in various contexts.
SIRCLES composting pilot sites in Spain, Greece, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia
The objective of SIRCLES project is to promote the social and labour inclusion of people at risk of social exclusion, by providing them with skills and jobs in the organic waste management sector. During the project, NEETs and women at risk of social exclusion in the project areas (Spain, Greece, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy) received training in composting. Subsequently, some of them were hired to work at the SIRCLES composting areas. The following documents illustrate the activities carried out and the results achieved in the countries involved.
INTECMED - Brief e-Bazaar
This document describes, within the INTECMED project (aimed to develop an integrated innovation ecosystem at local level to support technological transfer and commercialization of research results), the e-Bazaar platform, which opens the doors of all research institutions, giving the same access rights to the knowledge and know-how produced within them with a continuous interactive way. The originality of the project concerns the way in which this knowledge is disseminated as well as the needs of members outside it. All parties, Investors and Innovators, will be able to create and manage autonomous modern web profiles ensuring the immediacy and validity of their information and interact through collaboration requests, direct messages and instant notifications.