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.
D3.1.3_Indicators_for Smart Buildings-Cities
A large number of indicators are necessary in order to support cities for applying city management systems and to implement smart city policies, programmes and projects (ISO 37122). Among others, these efforts aim to: o respond to challenges such as climate change, by fundamentally improving how they engage society; o serve people and improve quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors using data and new technologies; o achieve sustainability goals; o facilitate innovation and growth; o build a dynamic and innovative economy. An integral element of smart cities that has evolved and advanced to early implementation stages is the smart readiness indicator (SRI) of buildings. This is a common EU rating scheme that depends on a building's capacity to accommodate smart-ready services for creating healthy, energy-efficient and comfortable indoor environment.1 The approach addresses all main building services, including air-conditioning, domestic hot water, lighting, electricity, electric vehicle charging, building envelope functions, monitoring and control. The impacts are accessed in terms of energy efficiency and flexibility, indoor comfort, convenience, health and well-being, among others. This report outlines the characteristics of related methods in order to quantify the building smart readiness indicator and smart cities. The presentation does not provide detailed information but rather outlines the SRI method and provides the necessary links to the available tools for quantifying the smartness of buildings. For smart cities, several of the relevant indicators that are reviewed herein are already part of the CESBA MED sustainability assessment method (https://cesba-med.interregmed.eu). Relevant information that is suitable for integration in the overall concept are presented in this report. Considering that a smart city has several facets, the evaluation of a smart city is based on qualitative criteria using an expert’s assessment based on the prescribed reference descriptions in order to assess and score the specific performance (Balaras et al. 2019).
D3.1.2_Sustainable Cities Tool
Cities need indicators standardised, consistent and comparable over time to measure their performance. The Sustainable City Tool (SCTool) is a completely new framework, developed for the first-time within the Sustainable MED Cities project context, useful to assess the level of sustainability at city scale.
SCTool will enhance the capacity of public administration in delivering, implementing and monitoring efficient measures, plans and strategies to improve the sustainability of cities. In the CESBA MED project it has been developed a first set of indicators at city scale but not organised in an assessment tool as SBTool or SNTool. Nevertheless, the set of indicators at cuty scale prepared by iiSBE Italia in CESBA MED has been adopted by UNEP/MAP for updating the application form of the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Istanbul Friendly Cities Award. Funded by the Government of Turkey, the Istanbul Environment Friendly City Award was created in the framework of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) to recognize efforts of local authorities in promoting sustainable development in Mediterranean coastal cities. The collaboration between CESBA MED and UNEP/MAP has been one of the more important achievements in the capitalisation of the project. In Sustainable MED Cities, the set of CESBA MED city scale indicators has been updated and organised in a new tool, the SCTool.
SOLE Cross-border policy reccomendations: strategic visions to facilitate energy requalification of public buildings
The document outlines energy refurbishment policies, societal visions for future public buildings, and processes for climate resilience. It offers transnational policy recommendations to guide Mediterranean policymakers in enhancing energy policies and facilitating building requalification interventions.
MedSNAIL Strategy for Mediterranean agri-food sector
This is an integrated analysis of the MedSNAIL pilot areas (six pilot areas in Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Tunisia and Spain), which has enabled work to identify and prioritise common challenges and joint opportunities in the Mediterranean agri-food sector. It is a key document that lays the foundations for contextualising local scenarios and establishing useful comparisons that allow work to be coordinated through strategic solutions.
MedSNAIL Alliance for fair, sustainable, resilient and competitive Mediterranean agri-food system
The MedSNAIL Alliance is a model agreement that includes milestones and specific lines of work that actively contribute to the transition of the Mediterranean agri-food sector towards a fairer, more sustainable and competitive model. The alliance is understood as an open and scalable tool to ratify the commitment of those entities interested in strengthening and adding value to Mediterranean food chains.
MedSNAIL Agrobiodiversity studies to preserve local food memory
Agrobiodiversity studies constitute a strategic study of each of the six MedSNAIL pilot areas, their food varieties and related industries, as well as the environmental and cultural factors that condition the agri-food development of local MSMEs. They are understood as an agile and basic tool for preserving the food memory of the territory, but also for defining lines of action to reverse situations that endanger traditional varieties and related industries.
MedSNAIL Geodatabase of quality products belonging to the Mediterranean culture, history and traditions
This is a digital tool developed by Slow Food that allows any user to learn about the MedSNAIL pilot areas, as well as to identify the products selected as strategic by means of files describing their nature, production process and history. These products have also been included in the Ark of Taste programme, which is a Slow Food initiative created to highlight the existence of quality products belonging to the cultures, history and traditions of the entire planet, which are at risk of disappearing within a few generations.
MedSNAIL Legacy
It is a final publication summarising the results derived from the project and the lessons learned with the aim of replicating and capitalising on the methodology implemented in MedSNAIL.
RESMYLE's final conference Acts
RESMYLE's final conference Acts
Game Video Survey
Game Video Survey
Game Development Framework Template
Game Development Framework Template
Game Design Document Template
Game Design Document Template