The Mediterranean library of knowledge
Explore the ENI CBC Med Programme's library of deliverables: a comprehensive digital repository of diverse resources tailored for the Mediterranean region. Discover in-depth studies, innovative strategies, and practical tools spanning tools addressing key environmental, economic, and social issues. The library is your go-to source to find valuable knowledge to inspire new collaborative projects driving fair, sustainable and inclusive development across the Mediterranean.
Waste Management Catalogue (English Version)
This catalogue aims to provide an overview of successful practices, solutions and approaches in waste separation, collection, treatment, and recycling in the Mediterranean. It also highlights the lessons-learnt that should be considered when replicating successes and avoiding pitfalls.
Business Ecosystem Enabling Integrated Waste Management and Circular Economy Models Report
This report focuses on promoting sustainable business practices in the Mediterranean region. By analyzing the current state of waste management and circular economy models in Mediterranean countries, we aim to provide valuable insights and recommendations to policymakers and businesses on how to create more sustainable and efficient waste management systems.
D2.2.2_Serious Game for enhancing cooperation
A Serious Game is a game designed to achieve a primary objective rather than just entertainment. Serious Games are tools for teaching, learning, and education. They help players learn experientially though play in order to put concepts into use. Serious games provide learners with the opportunities to transform experience into knowledge.
D2.2.1_SMC Toolkit
The Toolkit is composed by leaflets, booklets and factsheets then transformed into a graphic, user-friendly layout and translated in 3 languages to reach the widest audience. They are informal communication material, easy to
understand. They were distributed during national and international conferences and used as communication material to promote the main key outputs to the affected stakeholders.
D5.3.2_SMC Guide
The SMC Guide is designed for professionals and managers engaged in urban environmental issues (such as SME technicians, urban planners, public officials, etc.), as well as other stakeholders involved in urban studies and development (including academics, researchers, decision-makers, urban developers, etc.) who are interested in enhancing the sustainability of the built environment. This comprehensive document serves as a guide for readers to understand and utilize the SMC methodology and tools effectively, covering both technical and functional aspects.
D5.3.1_Policy Paper
The primary focus of the Sustainable MED Cities project was to increase the capacity of municipalities to bolster sustainability, a crucial sector due to its significant impact on energy and resource efficiency policies. However, this domain is intricate, involving economic, technical, environmental, and social aspects and interconnected with other challenges like urban planning, mobility, energy autonomy, potable water availability, and waste collection. For that reason, Sustainable MED Cities capitalized the CESBA MED Method and Tools to the needs and priorities of South-East Mediterranean countries in a similar vein as the MedUrbanTools initiative.
In this Policy Paper, 7 policy recommendations are presented and explained capitalising the results of the Sustainable MED Cities Project.
D5.2.3_Evaluation of Results
The Assessment methodology and the Tools were tested on 3 pilot urban areas in Sousse (Tunisia), Moukhtara (Lebanon) and Irbid (Jordan) with the objective to define a strategic concept and plan for optimising the sustainability of buildings and neighborhoods.
The aim of the pilots was to provide an opportunity to the participating municipalities and their experts to use the multi criteria assessment systems, along with the nationally adapted tools, i.e. SMC-SBTool and SMC-SNTool, to support the process aimed to define the optimal retrofitting concept to improve the sustainability of selected buildings and urban areas.
D5.2.2_Test of WP3 and WP4 outcomes
The objective of this report is to describe the test phases carried out by the partner municipalities on a district or a building using an evaluation system SCTool MED, SNTool MED and SBTool which are developed in WP3 and WP4 and which make it possible to measure the sustainability of Mediterranean cities.
The SCTool MED, SNTool MED and SBTool, developed as part of the international Green Building Challenge research process launched in 1998, will be contextualized and adapted to contexts reflecting the local priorities and particularities of the pilot cities and to any Mediterranean city.
The method is based on the concept of “think globally, act locally”, acting as a common “language” for assessing the sustainability of the built environment.
The use of the tools makes it possible to evaluate, compare and aggregate the results of locally deployed sustainability measures and, at the same time, evaluate progress towards global sustainability goals, avoiding uncertainty and confusion generated by the use of different evaluation tools.
D5.2.1_Test Protocol
This document describes the road map concerning the use of the SMC Decision-Making methodology (D4.1.1) to define an optimal retrofitting concept for a urban area and for buildings located in it.
Following the steps of the decision-making methodology, the documents provides all the templated to document the steps taken up to the description of the final retrofitting concept.
The use of common templates makes possible to compare the lessons learned by the PPs, facilitating the exchange of results achieved.
D5.1.2_Training Material
The Training Material is translated in 3 languages (English, French and Arabic). It is composed by 6 Phases:
1.- SBE Method
2.- Decision-making process
3.- KPIs Building Scale
4.- KPIs Neighbourhood Scale
5.- KPIs City Scale
6.- Pilot Case Studies
D5.1.3_Training_Courses
The deliverable D5.1.3 describes the training activities carried out during implementation of the Sustainable MED Cities (SMC) project.
The new sustainable approach to spatial planning and management of Mediterranean cities, offered by the SMC project through the innovative tools and methodologies set up and tested during the project implementation needs public authorities, both technicians and decision-makers, properly trained in order to maximize the effectiveness in using them.
Two macro-types of training activities, in relation to the relative objectives, have been implemented during the project:
- courses addressed at the teams of the three pilot cities in order to support them in adopting the SMC tools and methodology;
- workshops aimed at wider external audiences to raise awareness and knowledge of the concerned stakeholders and spread the use of SMC tools in the MED area.
D5.1.1_Adapt of CESBA MED training system framework
The deliverable D5.1.1 describes the general structure, the methodological approach and the different components of the training system implemented and tested in the Sustainable MED Cities (SMC) project.
The SMC training system represents the capitalisation of the training framework implemented and tested in the CESBA MED project and its adaptation to the needs and specificities of the south and east sides of the Mediterranean area.