Sustainable urban models in the Mediterranean

The City of Marseille and the Mediterranean Institute organized under the Ecocities Forum to be held during the Mediterranean Economic Week a workshop entitled:

"Sustainable Urban Models: share the experience with CATMED southern cities of the Mediterranean."

Final Conference CATMED - Malaga on 1 July 2011

After two years of cooperation, the project CATMED ends and a first assessment is essential. All 11 partner cities and the Mediterranean Institute participated at the invitation of the city of Malaga, in the final conference which took place on 1 July 2011.

Sustainable neighborhoods Mediterranean: leveraging of local Marseilles

In the project CATMED, two meetings were held on January 26 and February 17 in the premises of the Agam. Co-organized by the City of Marseille, Agam, and the Euro-Mediterranean Institute of the Mediterranean, these two meetings were attended by about thirty people, representatives of local institutions, companies, societies and associations of urban services. They have led to the emergence of a transversal reflections on sustainable Mediterranean city, while relying on the elements of the current project on the perimeter of the Extension Euroméditerranée.

CATMED

Launched in May 2009 in Malaga in Spain, the CAT Project MED (Mediterranean Metropolises Change Around Time) proposes to identify operational solutions to urban change behavior to reduce the environmental impact of urbanization and to limit emissions greenhouse gas (GHG).

It aims to prevent natural hazards from climate change, through the convergence of strategies and actions of the Mediterranean metropolises.

Signature of the Charter of Malaga

The mayors of cities CATMED project partners meet in Malaga.

Under the project CATMED and at the invitation of Francisco de la Torre Prados, Mayor of Malaga, the city mayors partners and their representatives met Monday, February 7, 2011 to sign the Charter of Malaga. The president of the Institute of the Mediterranean, also present at this official act, for his part, signed a manifesto of accession to the charter.

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