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.

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MoreThanAJob training sessions for social economy and public offices actors

More than 700 social economy actors and 150 representatives of public administration from Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Greece, and Italy participated in localized training sessions, emphasizing community empowerment and sustainable development ,also focused on improving collaboration , fostering more effective partnerships to promote community development and welfare enhancement.

MoreThanAJob train the trainer Workshops

More than 18 professionals specializing in social and labor inclusion participated in five online cross-border train-the-trainer workshops. These workshops focused on topics related to social economy and strategies to assist local actors in enhancing the provision of welfare services. The sessions covered areas relevant to Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Greece, and Italy.

MoreThanAJob: 10 pilot projects to promote social and employment inclusion of vulnerable groups

The MoreThanAJob project has successfully funded 10 pilot subgrants for co-production initiatives in collaboration with public authorities and SSE entities. These subgrants have led to direct benefits for over 3,000 individuals through the implementation of pilot projects.

MoreThanAJob 10 agreements signed between social economy actors and public administrations

10 agreements signed between social economy actors and public administrations for the development of initiatives supporting social and labour inclusion of vulnerable groups

MoreThanAJob New/improved policy suggestions report

The MoreThanAJob project has successfully developed new improved policy suggestions through consultations with public administration representatives in target countries, these suggestions have been tailored to maximize the benefits of applying the MoreThanAJob framework.

MoreThanAJob Policy Briefs: Improving policies for the development of more efficient welfare services

Three policy briefs on important social innovation topics were created during the project. Chosen for their relevance and potential impact, they were developed with regional partners and a consultant, validated, and then disseminated through workshops and webinars. These briefs provide detailed recommendations for policymakers aiming to promote social innovation effectively.

MoreThanAJob framework of social schemes and guidelines for its implementation

The MoreThanAJob framework, developed by the project consortium, targets Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) actors addressing unemployment, education, and refugee issues. It provides guidance for innovative social inclusion interventions and access to project sub-grants. Public administration officials are also engaged to improve social inclusion policies. The framework integrates best practices from various countries, offering guidelines for implementation tailored to local contexts, including regulatory compliance, translation, and infrastructure integration.

MoreThanAJob Interactive e-portal platform

An online multilingual structured database and an interactive space to foster dialogue and cooperation among local actors for the development of more inclusive and accessible services

AQUACYCLE My Autobiography - Part 2 Exceeding on expectations

The manuscript “AQUACYCLE My Autobiography” brings an account of the project’s journey through the ‘eyes’ of the project’s eco-innovative wastewater treatment system.
It is foremost intended to share the project’s aims and objectives and the progress towards achieving these objectives in an easy-to-understand manner. It is hoped that readers, including society at large will thus gain access into the functioning and purpose of the components that make up the treatment system: an anaerobic digester, one or more constructed wetlands and a solar raceway pond reactor.
Along the project’s journey, AQUACYCLE meets up not only with his ‘creators’, i.e. the research teams in the ENI CBC Med funded project but also with water stakeholders, including farmers from around the Mediterranean Region who are alerting to the dire water situation they are facing and how junior high school students amaze their teachers with their intimate knowledge also of EU regulations concerning treated wastewater reuse and more.
This second tome, published in October 2023 brings the sequel to My Autobiography: Anxiously waiting to make my physical appearance, published in February 2022. The latter collects the chapters prior to the construction of a first pilot demonstration unit of the treatment system in Spain, hence the title ‘Anxiously waiting to make my physical appearance’.
In this sequel, the reader is informed how the project reached all of its originally foreseen objectives ... and much more ! ... hence the title ‘Exceeding on expectations’.

AQUACYCLE My Autobiography - Part 1 Anxiously waiting to make my physical appearance

The manuscript “AQUACYCLE My Autobiography” brings an account of the project’s journey through the ‘eyes’ of the project’s eco-innovative wastewater treatment system.
It is foremost intended to share the project’s aims and objectives and the progress towards achieving these objectives in an easy-to-understand manner. It is hoped that readers, including society at large will thus gain access into the functioning and purpose of the components that make up the treatment system: an anaerobic digester, one or more constructed wetlands and a solar raceway pond reactor.
Along the project’s journey, AQUACYCLE meets up not only with his ‘creators’, i.e. the research teams in the ENI CBC Med funded project but also with water stakeholders, including farmers from around the Mediterranean Region who are alerting to the dire water situation they are facing.
This first tome, published in February 2022 collects the chapters prior to the construction of a first pilot demonstration unit of the treatment system in Spain, hence the title ‘Anxiously waiting to make my physical appearance’.

AQUACYCLE Capitalization Plan

The AQUACYCLE Capitalization Plan takes stock of the ENI CBC Med funded project’s achievements from two complementary perspectives.
The first chapter collects the Project Legacies – which have been aggregated under no less than 10 different headers – together with the targeted recipients and informs on how public access to these legacies will be ensured beyond the project lifetime. Consequently, further details are presented on each of these respective project legacies.
The second chapter informs about the project’s Capacity Building Achievements, the recipients and the quantified targets reached in terms of the number of Certified APOC users, i.e. the number of persons who received training of the project’s eco-innovative wastewater treatment system, abbreviated to APOC system; the number of tertiary degree awards to women in Tunisia for their research related to the project’s eco-innovative wastewater treatment system, and a multitude of women researchers who have been highly instrumental in the successful outcomes of the project’s research activities and for making the outcomes accessible to a wider public, including society at large.
The final, third chapter reiterates on the Project Key Performance Indicators, which sustains the subtitle of the second volume of AQUACYCLE My Autobiography: Exceeding on Expectations.

AQUACYCLE In-depth analysis of local water and sanitation governance framework

The present document brings the analysis of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of the local Governance Framework in the three countries where pilot demonstration units of the project’s eco-innovative wastewater treatment system have been constructed, i.e. Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia.
The first chapter places the scope of the present SWOT analysis in the context of the overall aim and the specific objectives of ‘Preparing for participatory decision-making’.
Chapter 2 elaborates briefly on the rationale for the SWOT analysis to be based on a desk review of available reports and assessment studies and interviews with representatives of the public authorities involved at the national, regional and local level. This is followed by a detailed description of the roles and involvement of the main stakeholders’ groups in Chapter 3, while Chapter 4 brings an overview of the regulatory framework for sanitation, wastewater treatment and reuse in agriculture in the respective countries. Chapter 5 informs on the semi-structured questionnaire that was elaborated for the purpose of interviewing the main stakeholders in each country and reports on the outcomes of the 15 stakeholder interviews that were conducted.
Chapter 6 presents the outcomes of the SWOT analysis of the eco-innovative wastewater treatment technology brought by AQUACYCLE, (for technical details on the technology see Output APOC technical guide). In turn, these outcomes provided a solid basis for the elaboration in Chapter 7 of forward looking strategies for the Mediterranean Region as a whole and for the targeted case study countries in particular. Finally, overall conclusions and recommendations are provided in Chapter 8.