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  • Portuguese stakeholders contribute to feed in the cooperation process in the western Mediterranean

    6 March 2020 National Hub Portugal

    Fórum Oceano, the Portuguese National Hub, promoted the WestMED Initiative National Event, on the 27 February, in Lisbon. The event, entitled “Journey for Interregional Cooperation between Atlantic and the Western Mediterranean”, counted on with the collaboration of DGPM and the Atlantic National Hub, gathering more than 35 Portuguese stakeholders. The Journey aimed at promoting the […]

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  • KICs tackling water scarcity in Southern Europe: A call for experts will be launched soon

    5 March 2020 Communication team

    In 2020 the KICs will be establishing a group of experts on water scarcity in Southern Europe, delivering focused entrepreneur challenge labs for start-ups and organising the EIT Water Academy for water scarcity challenge education. The KICs will also be running EIT workshops with public bodies and other stakeholders across different regions and communication activities […]

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  • The Plastic Busters MPAs project: consolidating the fight against marine litter in coastal and pelagic Mediterranean MPAs

    23 February 2020 Communication team

    This article was published first here by MEDPAN on the 19 February.     Author: Ignasi Mateo, SCP/RAC Are you concerned with marine litter pollution in your MPA? Plastic Busters MPAs is here to support you! Plastic Busters MPAs[  is a 48-month-long project funded by Interreg Mediterranean aiming to support and work with MPA managers […]

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  • westmed assistance mechanism team at booth euromaritime 2020 - France

    The Algeria National Hub joins the WestMED stand at Euromaritime

    14 February 2020 National Hub Algeria

    On 5 February 2020, the Algeria National Hub of the WestMED Initiative has participated to the side event organized by the French National Hub at the Euromaritime 2020 in Marseille in collaboration with “les Énergies de la Mer”. This event was dedicated to the presentation of activities of different stakeholders at the national level (France, […]

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  • Portugal National Hub gets regional stakeholders onboard

    National Hub Portugal

    The objective was to raise awareness on the WestMED’ s progress and implementation, to discuss ongoing proposals and new project ideas, to hear the stakeholders’ expectations, to invite other stakeholders to be part of the Initiative and to identify partnership opportunities.

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