The development of this project will foster sustainable integrated urban development in cities across Mediterranean Countries, we focus on technologies that can be eco-friendly and applicable to different contexts and territories. This will improve the capacity to manage sustainable urban policies in every context and create new urban strategies and actions to integrate these new technologies among the inhabitants local habits. This approach enable cities to cooperate and develop integrated solutions to common urban challenges. This transnational cooperation can lead to a significant opening to new perspectives, know-how, technologies and even markets that they would have not considered before. As part of a network, each member will have roles, duties and advantages that will improve the level of its governance and the life quality of its inhabitants. A huge work shall be done to make effective changes on the administrative standards of most cities.
From an economical point of view, this network allows the birth of new expertise, new ecological good practices, local investments and employment, keeping an eye on increasing percentages of inclusion for certain disadvantaged social categories. The consequences of doing little or even nothing to address waste management can be very costly to society and to the economy overall