Sustainable MED Cities

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Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities

About the project

In the Mediterranean region, two thirds of the population live in urban areas. By 2050, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme predicts 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. This fact generates serious challenges: growing number of slums, inadequate infrastructures and services (waste collection, potable water, mobility, health threats). Cities play a major role in tackling these challenges. That is why a new sustainable approach to spatial planning and management in Mediterranean cities, offering longer-term sustainable solution, is needed. Combining the capitalisation of the Interreg MED project “CESBA MED: Sustainable Cities” with the ENI CBC MED project “GreenBuilding”, Sustainable MED Cities will provide Mediterranean municipalities with a system of innovative tools and methodologies to develop effective policies, strategies and action plans in relation to the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development 2016-2025. The project will also deliver innovative capacity-building programmes for Mediterranean cities to step up their capacity to drive the urban regeneration.

Key information

Acronym:

Sustainable MED Cities

Full title:

Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities

Thematic objective:

B.4 Environmental protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation

Priority:

B.4.3 Energy efficiency and renewable energy

Countries:

Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Greece

Financial data

0.7 million

Total budget

0.6 million

EU contribution

15%

Project co-financing

Highlights

Project in numbers

Partners

Countries

Technical outputs

Project duration

Start date

01 October 2021

End date

31 December 2023

Partnership

News

Events

Library

Deliverables

Documents

Videos

Objective

To enhance the capacity of public administration in delivering, implementing and monitoring efficient measures, plans and strategies to improve the sustainability of cities, neighbourhoods and buildings with focus on energy efficiency and the promotion of participatory processes

What will be improved?

To reduce energy demand and CO2 emission in the Mediterranean, quantified data are needed. Therefore, the project will share common tools and methodologies to set common targets and to measure the overall progress in terms of energy efficiency in urban areas. By doing this, the capacity to act of local authorities in sustainable built environment will increase. The adoption of participatory and multi-level governance approaches will increase too. Finally, the impact of policy instruments used by municipalities such as urban plans, strategic plans, building regulations will be addressed.

Who will benefit?

Municipalities and regional authorities
Energy and urban agencies
Training centers and schools
Designers, urban planners, architects and engineers
Construction companies and materials producers
Universities and research centres

Expected achievements

1 Sustainable MED Cities assessment system produced
1 Sustainable MED Cities Platform implemented
1 decision-making methodology for sustainable cities upgraded
1 multi-level governance in energy planning carried out
3 tests on pilot neighbourhoods implemented

Contribution to policy-making

About the project

Acronym

Sustainable MED Cities

Title

Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities

Description

The world is becoming more and more urbanized. In the Mediterranean, two thirds of the population is already living in urban areas. By around 2050, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme predicts 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. This fact generates serious challenges: growing number of slums, inadequate infrastructures and services (waste collection, potable water, mobility, etc.), health treats. Cities play a major role in the joint challenge of achieving the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. For those reasons, it is necessary a new sustainable approach to spatial planning and management of Mediterranean cities, offering longer-term sustainable solutions. This new approach needs to be supported by innovative tools and methodologies, useful to enhance the decision-making and planning processes of local authorities, to deliver higher quality, coherent and consistent urban sustainability measures and accelerate reaching targets. Tools and methodologies able to adopt a Multi-Level Governance approach in planning and managing cities: the implementation of actions fostering horizontal and vertical integration of different governance levels, the joint application of the sustainability measures across local and regional authorities, the adoption if monitoring and verification schemes. Combining the capitalisation of the Interreg MED project “CESBA MED: Sustainable Cities” with the ENI MED project “GreenBuilding”, Sustainable MED Cities will provide Mediterranean municipalities with a system of innovative tools and methodologies to develop effective policies, strategies and action plans in relation to the Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2025. The project will also deliver innovative capacity-building programmes for Mediterranean cities to step up their capacity to drive the urban regeneration.

Role

Name of the organisation

Country

Region

Contact

Lead beneficiary

Secretary of Urban Agenda and Territory – Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory

Spain

Cataluña

Partner 1

iiSBE Italia R&D S.r.l. - I.S

Italy

Piemonte

Partner 2

Municipality of Sousse

Tunisia

Sousse

Partner 3

Moukhtara Municipality

Lebanon

Partner 4

Greater Irbid Municipality

Jordan

Irbid

Partner 5

Management Unit of Special Account for Research, NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS

Greece

Attiki

Associates

Role

Name of the organisation

Country

Associate 1

United Nations Environment Programme - Mediterranean Action Plan Coordinating Unit – Barcelona Convention Secretariat

Greece

Associate 2

Asociación MedCities y/o MedCités

Spain

Project news

01 December 2023

Extensive discussions on building sustainability assessment methods during the Sustainable MED Cities final conference

The Consortium together with external experts exchanged experiences about sustainability assessment methods, tools and solutions for buildin…

Sustainable tourism

Technology transfer

Elderly care

Water efficiency

About the project

Key information

Financial data

Highlights

Project in numbers

Project duration

Partnership

News

Events

Library

Deliverables

Documents

Videos

Objective

What will be improved?

Who will benefit?

Expected achievements

Contribution to policy-making

About the project

Associates

Extensive discussions on building sustainability assessment methods during the Sustainable MED Cities final conference

Sustainable MED Cities' partners plan out the Local Project Committees and other concluding actions during the Final meeting

Sustainable MED Cities presents its decision making methodology at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

Join the Sustainable MED Cities' Final Conference in Athens the 23rd November

Testing the sustainability of a building/neighbourhood: Three municipalities have successfully implemented the Sustainable MED Cities' pilots

Sustainable MED Cities presents its decision-making game for uran planning and the Final Conference in the 6th Newsletter

SAVE THE DATE! Sustainable MED Cities invites you to the Final Conference in Athens

Meet the SUSTAINABLE MED CITIES Team #06 National Observatory of Athens

Sustainable MED Cities is empowering communities: Local Project Committee impacts in Irbid, Sousse, and Moukhtara Regions

The 3 Sustainable Med Cities' Municipalities meet with their stakeholders to improve the pilots of the project

Sustainable MED Cities presents the two platforms to create the three contextualised tools in its 5th Newsletter

Sustainable MED Cities presents the three tools to measure sustainability of the built environment at ASHRAE Annual Conference in Florida, USA

Lebansese Municipality of Moukhtara, partner of Sustainable MED Cities, shows commitment to implement Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan

Sustainable MED Cities met in Jordan to set an action plan to finish the 3 assessment tools successfully

Municipality of Moukthara shows Sustainable MED Cities' results at MedCat Days 2023 in Barcelona

Sustainable MED Cities fourth newsletter shows you the core activity of the project: the Testing Phase

Tunisia: Sustainable MED Cities is looking for an External Consultant

Sustainable MED Cities presented in Thessaloniki its Innovative Tools to improve the sustainability of the Mediterranean cites

The Municipality of Sousse participated in SEACAP event as a member of Sustainable MED Cities to share its sustainability success projects

Italy: Sustainable MED Cities is looking for an External Consultant

The Municipality of Sousse is looking for an External Auditor

Sustainable MED Cities invites you to the Sustainable Built Environment seminar! REGISTER NOW!

Sustainable Med Cities presents the upcoming Sustainable Building Environment seminar in its 3rd Newsletter

Sustainable MED Cities outlines the role of cities in the energy balance during the 13th South East Europe Energy Dialogue

Meet the SUSTAINABLE MED CITIES Team #05 Greater Irbid Municipality

Local Project Committees (LPC): The Sustainable MED Cities' proposal to upgrade the project development

Lebanon: Sustainable MED Cities is looking for an External Consultant

Introducing the SUSTAINABLE MED CITIES team #04: Moukhtara Municipality

Lebanon: Sustainable MED Cities is looking for an External Auditor

Italy: Sustainable MED Cities is looking for an External Auditor

Sustainable MED Cities second newsletter introduces three tools at different scales to promote sustainability in municipalities

Management meeting: Sustainable MED Cities partners to present the sustainability tools development roadmap

Meet the SUSTAINABLE MED CITIES Team #03 Sousse Municipality

Meet the Sustainable MED Cities team #02: iiSBE Italia

Meet the Sustainable MED Cities Team #06: National Observatory of Athens

How Sustainable MED Cities answers to Covid-19 situation?

Meet the SUSTAINABLE MED CITIES team #01 GenCAT

New strategies and action plans for the sustainable development of Mediterranean cities 'Sustainable MED Cities' launches its newsletter

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Sustainable MED Cities project at "Sustainable built environments: Paving the way for achieving the targets of 2030 and beyond” conference