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.
Waste Management Catalogue (Arabic Version)
This catalogue aims to provide an overview of successful practices, solutions and approaches in waste separation, collection, treatment, and recycling in the Mediterranean. It also highlights the lessons-learnt that should be considered when replicating successes and avoiding pitfalls.
Waste Management Catalogue (English Version)
This catalogue aims to provide an overview of successful practices, solutions and approaches in waste separation, collection, treatment, and recycling in the Mediterranean. It also highlights the lessons-learnt that should be considered when replicating successes and avoiding pitfalls.
Business Ecosystem Enabling Integrated Waste Management and Circular Economy Models Report
This report focuses on promoting sustainable business practices in the Mediterranean region. By analyzing the current state of waste management and circular economy models in Mediterranean countries, we aim to provide valuable insights and recommendations to policymakers and businesses on how to create more sustainable and efficient waste management systems.
MedSNAIL factsheets of quality products belonging to the Mediterranean culture, history and traditions.
As an alternative to the MedSNAIL Geodatabase, factsheets have been published with information on Ark of Taste products identified through MedSNAIL. This is a more visual and easy-to-share tool that describes the nature, production process and history of these products. The Ark of Taste is a Slow Food initiative created to highlight the existence of quality products belonging to cultures, history and traditions around the world, which are at risk of disappearing within a few generations.
MedSNAIL Narrative Labels to raise awareness of products linked to local history, tradition and culture.
Narrative labelling is a tool inspired by the strategic instruments developed by Slow Food and ultimately aims to promote a more homogeneous identification between products from a specific area, thus fostering a sense of shared identity and a more direct association between the area and its local products. Each of the MedSNAIL pilot areas has identified local products adapted to and consistent with their natural environment and developed labels that highlight descriptive characteristics associated with their territorial context, historical trajectory and connections with the intangible practices and traditions of local communities.
MedSNAIL Alliance of Chefs Directory for local products promotion.
The MedSNAIL Chefs Alliance, inspired by a Slow Food initiative, is made up of a group of chefs committed to integrating local products into local food production. These establishments have been identified and collected through a specific directory that makes it possible to identify Mediterranean gastronomic establishments committed to local products. This network will serve as a precedent for possible collaborations and/or synergies between members of the sector, as well as new commercial links between producers and chefs.
D4.4.1 S MED CITIES - Set up of Local Project Committee
The purpose of this document is to incorporate the decision-making methodology into a participatory process through the setting up of Local Project Committees.
LPCs are the primary strategy for actively engaging target groups in the sustainable Med Cities project ‘Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities’.
In addition, based on what stated in the Application Form of the project, a Local Project Committee (LPC) will be established in each participating municipality.
Local members, representing the different stakeholders interested in the Sustainable MED Cities outcomes, will compose the LPC and they will actively participate in these informal but collective working group.
D4.2.1_Participatory Guarantee System
Starting from the experience gained in CESBA MED project concerning the development of a participatory approach through the implementation of Co-Creation labs, Sustainable MED Cities will capitalise, reply and adapt this approach to the partner cities involved in the testing activity of the project.
The key ending result of this deliverable is a guideline for PPs involved in the testing activity, for setting up and properly manage the key participative moments during the Decision-Making process (see D4.1.1).
This deliverable has been produced in conjunction with “D4.1.1 - Adaptation of CESBA MED generic Decision-Making methodology to South and East side of MED” and with “D5.2.1 - Test Protocol”. For that reason, D4.2.1 must be utilized together with the other companion deliverables mentioned before.
Furthermore, a specific chapter is devoted to the description of the Co-Creation Labs, the places where the participation process physically takes place.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform User Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform Moderator Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.1_Assessment_Platform_User_Manual
User Manual for the assessment platform:
https://sustainablemedcities.tools/
D3.1.4_MED_Passport and KPIs
The majority of the world’s population (55%) has been concentrated in large urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050 (UN, 2018). At the same time, although cities account for less than 2% of the Earth's surface, they consume 78 % of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and 70% of global waste, (UN Habitat), being both a challenge for global sustainability and a tool for its solution.
In the Mediterranean region, two thirds of the population live in urban areas, while by 2050, it is predicted that the urban population will grow to around 170 million in the countries on the northern shore and to over 300 million to the south and east. Currently, northern Mediterranean countries use more energy and have higher CO2 emissions than south-eastern countries, a trend that is expected to be reversed by 2040 by improving energy efficiency, exploiting renewables etc. Most global climate models project that the Mediterranean basin will be particularly sensitive to rising GHG concentrations and thus, vulnerable to climate change, which means that cities in the south and north Mediterranean will need to adapt existing infrastructure and build new ones.
The Sustainable MED Cities project, aims to provide an easy to use, harmonized methodology and open source tools to support Mediterranean municipalities in the assessment, planning and overall decision-making process for selecting the best sustainable renovation strategies that increase the quality of the built environment. The holistic assessment focuses on energy and GHGs emissions, and other environmental vectors like economic and social indicators. The tools are used to set common targets and to measure the overall progress in terms of key sustainability issues and decarburization efforts at different scales (i.e. building, neighbourhood and city). The common method and tools will be available in different languages, with their assessment and rating approach contextualized to national (local) needs and priorities.
The approach taken in this work utilizes the CESBA MED system (CESBA MED Project – SBTool assessment system) that was developed as a generic framework, which includes an “exhaustive” list of sustainability indicators that cover all relevant themes, given that there is still no consensus on a specific number or types of indicators. In addition, some new indicators are included in order to address the priorities of the new partner cities in the MENA region. The resulting comprehensive database includes different performance indicators from which to select the ones that meet local priorities and needs, or best fit the project intent.