environmental protection
The TREASURE – Testing novel environmental quality measures in and around Euro-MED ports – project, aimed at enhancing environmental quality in Mediterranean port areas, successfully launched with a kick-off meeting held in Livorno on 3-4 April, 2024.
Representatives from Italy, Croatia and Slovenia gathered on 20 February at the CEI Headquarters for the final conference of the project North Adriatic Maritime Incident Response System (NAMIRS).
The CEI-Executive Secretariat has recently participated in the Annual event hosted by the DG-ECHO on the state-of-play of Disaster Resiliance Societies research and innovation which took place in Brussels from 4-7 December 2023.
The 23rd Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols (COP 23) is making waves as the CEI - Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) takes the spotlight with its contributions towards a prosperous, sustainable and safer Mediterranean.
On 20 November in Trieste, the Maritime Directorate of Trieste, in collaboration with Slovenian and Croatian partners, successfully concluded a groundbreaking transnational anti-pollution exercise in the Northern Adriatic.
In a significant gathering of maritime experts and policy leaders, the Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat organised the rountable "From the Barcelona Convention to an operational strategy for the safeguard of the Adriatic Sea" during the Barcolana Sea Summit.
The presentation of the third edition of the Barcolana Sea Summit, themed "Together for the Mediterranean Sea," was held at the CEI Headquarters on 18 September.
On 17 May, the CEI Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) attended the ADRIASPILLCON 2023 in Opatija, Croatia together with high-level speakers and stakeholders from the Adriatic coastal States, the Mediterranean region, the European countries, and other parts of the world.
On 29 March, the Consortium of the CEI-led NAMIRS project gathered in Rijeka, Croatia to discuss the advancement of activities and to plan upcoming actions.
The 2022 edition of the Barcolana Sea Summit organised in Trieste on 5-7 October looks at the need for a holistic and integrated approach to face the complexity of ensuring the sustainability of the Mediterranean - thus putting international cooperation, support to science and technology safeguarding the Mediterranean, and the role of businesses and institutions first-place.
On 23 September, the Consortium of the CEI-led project NAMIRS gathered in Portoroz, Slovenia to examine the state-of-play of ongoing and future project activities, six months after its kick-off.
At the press conference for the launch of the Barcolana Sea Summit, taking place in Trieste at the beginning of October, the NAMIRS project was presented as one of the major joint initiatives for the protection and safeguarding of the sea as a common resource.
As project partner of the SUSTOURISMO Interreg Adrion project, on 30 November the CEI-ES has promoted a fruitful virtual round table among main local and regional stakeholders who have been supporting the design and implementation of the pilot initiative “Take a ride on the green side – Enjoy a sustainable visit to Grado and Aquileia”.