Med2000 Project

The Med2000 project - for a Sustainable Future in the Mediterranean is a project of development education co-ordinated byl CRIC – Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione (Italy) and DECEP - European Perspective (Greece). The project has a duration of 3 years and is co-funded by the European Union and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It started in January 2000. 
 

The main goal is to sensitize the Euro-Mediterranean public opinion about the challenge of the building-up of a free trade area in the Mediterranean region as well as about the new social practices implemented by the civil society to reach the objectives of local sustainability.
 

Among the project's activities, one can find:
 

• the building-up of a website in three languages (French, Italian and English)
• the setting-up and strengthening of national focal points in a selected number of countries (1)
• the activation of micro-projects on fair trade, ethical banking, economy of solidarity and agro-ecology
• the organisation of the Mediterranean Tour of an itinerant exhibiltion on the project's issues

Med2000 Roadshow 

General goal:

The main goal of the Roadshow is to promote public awareness on the project's issues: the building-up of partnerships for a sustainable future in the Mediterranean.

Specific goal:

To give visibility to local actors involved in a selected number of Mediterranean areas with new social practices of sustainable development: fair trade, ethical banking, agro-ecology, local agenda 21, etc. around the itinerante exhibition "Each Step brings us closer to each other. Beyond Globalisation, Towards Local Regeneration. For a Sustainable Future in the Mediterranean." 

Means 

The Roadshow will visit 8 countries and 15 towns and cities. In every place, the exhibition will be built-up and local groups will organise such events as a press conference, a fair of local actors and products, a round-table with social and institutional actors, a get-together party. Local groups will co-ordinated their efforts with the national focal points (1 )of the project. 
 

Local groups 

 The local groups will be in charge of:
 

• welcoming the staff of the Roadshow 
• caring for lodging and accommodations
• helping in building up the exhibition
• organising paralel events (see Means)
• publishing a directory of local actors for sustainable development 

Itinerary

Staff

The staff will be composed of 10 to 12 people for technical and logistical support, animation and coordination of the Roadshow. Three vehicles will be used: a car station-wagon and two vans (one for the people and one for the equipments)

Note: 

      (1) CRIC – Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione (Italy), Third World Group (Malta), DECEP (Greece), Federation of Ecological and Environmental NGOs (Cyprus), CERAI –  Centro de Estudios Rurales y Agricultura Internacional (Spain), Mouvement Ecologique Algérien (Algeria), APNEK- Association pour la protection de la Nature Kairouan (Tunisia), CMED - Centre Méditerranéen pour l'Environnement et le Développement (Morocco) 
 
 
 
 

The main goal of the exhibition is to contribute to a proactive reflection on the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Barcelona Process) and on the role of civil society within this partnership, with a specific focus on local sustainability. 

One of the biggest challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership seems to go beyond the macro-economic and politico-institutional arrangements, inspired by neo-liberal theories, to go back to the land and to people needs on the grassroots level. 

In front of the globalisation of the economy, we assist to the creation of new social practices of solidarity implemented by members of the civil society all over the world. Often, those experiences are inspired by the social economy but involve all sectors of society in a prospect of "Global and Local Welfare". They are often oriented to more ecological lifestyles, a cleaner environment, social justice, solidarity by and within diversity.

The exibition is organised in three sections: a presentation of some common perceptions of the Mediterranean as one storical area of world culture; an introduction to the Barcelona Process; an illustration of tools for local sustainability and economic solidarity: participatory planning, environmental protection, local agenda 21, fair trade, ethical banking, local economic trade systems, systems of environmental management, use of renewable enrgy, agro-ecological practices, etc.

The exhibition will open to an area where the public will meet with local actors involved with such social practices and then have a concrete opportunity to get appropriate information through direct contacts. Paralel events will be organised involving producers of organic products, local artists, etc.

Access to the exhibition will be free of charge. 

The Roadshow will stay over 2 days in each place.