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.
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.
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.
MedBEESinessHubs: consolidated report on the economic value of the bee-economy concept
The objective of this report is to underline similarities and differences observed in the five Mediterranean countries (Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon and Palestine) of MedBEESinessHubs project and to help decision-makers to formulate plans for developing a more economically robust honey industry in each country and at the Mediterranean level.
MedBEESinessHubs: Mapping the honeybee policy frameworks at cross border level in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine
As part of the MedBEESinessHubs project, the following documents provide information on key policy instruments at the national or regional level that are directly or indirectly related to beekeeping sector in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon and Palestine.
MedBEESinessHubs: Mapping the honeybee producers in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine
One of the key objectives of MedBEESinessHubs is to support the economies of five deprived rural communities by empowering and networking local people, especially the youth, in developing handicraft honeybee products businesses and tourism services networks, hence contributing to build a Mediterranean Bee-economy.
The following documents present a mapping of honeybee producers in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine, with a brief description of the companies and their products.
MedBEESinessHubs: regional studies on the economic value of networking around the honeybee products in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine
MedBEESinessHubs project intends to contribute to the development of an actual Mediterranean BEE-economy by connecting clusters in five countries (Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy) and going a lot further than just producing and selling honey, considering a vast range of side products, from cosmetics to handcrafting souvenirs and even to the consolidation of “bee-tourism".
This section contains some regional studies on the economic value of networking around the honeybee products in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon and Palestine. These reports identify the key actors and functions within the honey industries, highlight their strengths and constraints, and identify opportunities to improve the industry’s productivity and profitability.
MedBEESinessHubs: Bee Economy concept incorporated in European and national policies in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine
The main objective of MedBEESinessHubs project is to protect the bees, by adopting a new approach relying on the notion bee economy, thereby positioning individual incomes with the necessity to protect the bees and preserving biodiversity as a source of economic wellbeing in rural areas.
The incorporation of the Bee economy concept in the national policies can impact positively the sustainable development of rural areas, the preservation of the environment, tackling economic issues such as youth and female unemployment, and environmental issues. In this section there are reports relating to the Bee Economy concept incorporated in European and national policies of the countries participating in the project, namely Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine.
MedBEESinessHubs: Policy document incorporating the Bee Economy concept in European and national policies
The MedBEESinessHubs project aims to protect the bees, managed and wild, by taking a different approach from that of existing policies, that stems from the notion of creating local economies that depend on the bees, thereby aligning individual incomes with the necessity to protect the bees and lead to a result of preserving biodiversity as a source of economic wellbeing. To achieve this objective, the project has undertaken several good practises at the level of pilot implementation, as illustrated in this document, which is a consolidation report of the five regional policy suggestion reports prepared and submitted for each region participating in the project (Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy).
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.