Plastic Busters Cap organizes in Egypt (Marsa Matruh) the national training on marine litter monitoring and mitigation measures on the 1st and the 2nd March 2023 which targets the Mediterranean marine litter practitioners from Egypt and aims to enhance their capacities in designing and implementing a comprehensive marine litter monitoring strategy.

The national training is organized by El Ramis Society for Local Community Development of Barrany, MIO-ECSDE and University of Siena,

The first training day will focus on the following themes: 

Slow tourism is a travel philosophy that focuses on experiencing a destination in a more authentic and sustainable way. It involves taking the time to truly get to know a place and its culture, rather than just ticking off a list of tourist attractions. The EU-funded Med Pearls project is dedicated to promoting slow tourism in the Mediterranean region together with a network of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector, with the goal of promoting sustainable and authentic tourism experiences in the region.

On Monday 20^th of February 2023, the An-Najah National University (ANNU) organised a new webinar to harvest learnings and knowledge as one of the activities of the MedRiSSE project.

GLOOM is an ICT solution that focuses on the two Med Pearls pilot areas in Greece: Pieria-Mount Olympus and Imathia Veria. Both pilot areas will have benefits from the creation of this Med Pearls ICT solution, that will be developed by COMITECH SA. The ICT solution will be offered by the four Greek tour agencies (sub-grantees of the project) as a game to further promote the two pilot areas involved. As well as a way to encourage the Slow Tourism philosophy.

In recent years, the concept of "slow tourism" has gained significant popularity as a refreshing alternative to traditional, fast-paced tourism. With the COVID-19 pandemic, slow tourism has become even more prevalent, as people are seeking to reduce their environmental impact and connect with local communities with confidence.

What is slow tourism?

On 8 February 2023, CLUSTER project partners gathered for the second time presentially in Amman, Jordan, and online, for a meeting to go over the achievements and progress made over the past period, as well as to agree on the steps forward to ensure the impactful implementation of one of the core missions of the project: CLUSTER´s training program targeting youth and women in the Mediterranean.

On February 9^th, 2023 Mutah University (MU), one of the Jordanian parnter of  MoreThanAJob, organized a workshop at Tafila Technical University.

The MED-QUAD project, involving cross-border collaboration between Al-Balqa Applied University and  the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (respectively partners from Jordan and Egypt), has produced promising results in the field of research.

SIRCLES partners from Italy, Lebanon, Tunisia, Spain and Greece met in Tunisia in June 2022 to hold the first meeting of the Capitalization Board in the presence of the mayor of Bizerte and ENI CBC MED representative Ms. Samira Rafrafi. The discussions were around biowaste management and circular economy strategies with a focus on youth NEETs (Not in Employment,Education and Training) and women and providing them with the necessary skillsets and preparing them to be involved in the community.

In the context of the SEACAP 4 SDG project, the Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC) on the 17th of February 2023 organized the first Local Living Lab training in Jdeideh El Chouf (Lebanon).