Global Agendas Projects

Projects currently running in 2017

MED-SPRING

The Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway (MED-SPRING) project is focused on tackling three challenges in society in the Mediterranean area: energy, high quality affordable food, and scarcity of resources. Financed by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, the project aims to tackle policy objectives by creating dialogue and coordination between government institutions, research organisations, associations and civil society. Involving 28 partners from around the Mediterranean. CPMR’s role in the project, which involves 28 partners from around the Mediterranean, is to analyse systems of research and innovation in the countries involved. It is also in charge of some of the project dissemination activities.

This project is related to the CPMR’s work on external cooperation and the Intermediterranean Commission Working Group on Territorial Cooperation and Macro-Regional Strategies.

Visit the website: http://medspring.eu/

PLATFORMA (2015-2017)

2015-2017 period – For the third consecutive period, CPMR is a partner in the consortium of this project, which aims to address the territorial approach to development policies. The CPMR contributes to PLATFORMA’s ‘core activities’ and to the dialogue with the European Southern Neighbourhood. The project kicked off on 1 August 2015. More recently, the IMC-CPMR has been contributing by elaborating a report with the final aim of helping to organise a training module addressed to local and regional authorities, notably from the Southern IMC members. The training will deal with capacity building for integrated territorial development.

This project is related to the CPMR’s work on external cooperation.

Visit the website: http://platforma-dev.eu/

Projects completed in 2016

PLATFORMA (2013-2016)

This was an extension, for the 2013-2016 period, of the grant contract between the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and the European Commission (DG Enlargement) in which CPMR was a consortium partner. CPMR contributed to the debate on the territorial approach to development.