The MEDISS Work Package 3 – Data analysis and Monitoring – has produced some results concerning the evolution of the soil quality in two pilot areas (Jericho in Palestine and Al Rusha in Jordan), as a consequence of the activities carried out by the project. 

The external evaluator’s experts will support the assesssment of proposals received by third actors within a sub-grant call that will be launched in the following months. The sub-grant call will be aimed at financing SSE-PA cooperation projects aiming at improving welfare and social services for vulnerable groups in order to increase their opportunities for social and labor inclusion.

The Tunisian Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer joined the fisrt edition of Clean Up The Med promoted by the COMMON project.

It was a big awareness campaign, and this is the video of its main tunisian actors

In the shops of the Cerro-Amate district of Seville soon it will be possible to pay with a public Complementary Currency (CC), a way of generating the empowerment and sustainability of the local economy. This is one of the six experiences integrated in MedTOWN, a social innovation project based on supporting the role and capacities of the actors of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) whose aim is to increase the socio-economic impacts and effectiveness of public policies and spending at local level.

The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) has started its first steps to establish an incubator in AL-Koura District (Jordan) that will focus on supporting entrepreneurs from vulnerable groups in the field of social business.

Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in collaboration with Mediterranean partners from Lebanon, Italy, and Spain have launched the MED GAIMS project in September 2019. The gamification-oriented project targets two historic sites in Jordan which Umm Qais is one of them. Umm-Qais not only represents an integration of natural and human forces, but also a composite of landscape elements. It is a combination of stratigraphy of a variety of historic periods including Roman Byzantine, Islamic and ottoman.

Houssem Hmaidi, the eldest of three brothers, was born twenty-eight years ago, in Bou Salem, a town in northern Tunisia that lies on the banks of the Medjerda, the longest river of the country. “Our region is known for its agriculture, especially irrigated agriculture – says Houssem – and for its natural beautiful sceneries”.

In 2020, eleven partners from seven countries bordering the Mediterranean have joined with a common objective to train young people with skills adjusted to the current market in port-logistic communities operating in the new Blue Economy. The partners in the project will focus on the peripheral regions of the Mediterranean, with the aim of promoting social inclusion and fight against poverty in both the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean sea.