Viale Cristoforo Colombo n.6
09125 Cagliari
Italie
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
OpenMed assembles a group of professionals and people with years of experience in the field of cooperation with a strong belief in the potentialities and added values of cooperation and exchange processes among organizations, institutions and people of the Mediterranean boosting different cultures, habits and backgrounds.
The philosophy of OpenMed looks positively at new challenges like globalization and a growing “melting-pot” society where people are more and more encouraged to interact with new communities, environments, cultures, habits and identities.
In the “new world” we are leaving and which we are experiencing day by day it becomes clear that cooperation among countries and populations is crucial and has to be considered a real opportunity whose potentials need to be better and further exploited and developed.
In this sense OpenMed operates to strongly promote integration and exchange occasions through the implementation of a vast range of cooperation projects and initiatives in particular among Mediterranean countries. Our vision about the cooperation concept is described at three levels:
cross-border level, supporting the development of economic and social activities among geographic neighbours;
transnational level mainly supporting technological innovation, environment, risk prevention, mobility and sustainable urban development;
interregional level, working on innovation and knowledge-based economy on one side and environment and risk prevention on the other.
OpenMed is involved in several activities and initiatives playing an important role in defining new partnerships, identifying opportunities and finally implementing EuroMediterranean cooperation projects among European and Mediterranean regions.
The main activities of OpenMed are:
Promotion and active involvement in economic, cultural and social research studies;
Active participation to cooperation initiatives funded by the European Union or other donors;
Administrative, financial and technical project management;
Monitoring and evaluation of projects, through its web-based system OpenMedPro;
Evaluation of project ideas to be submitted to the EU;
Support the development of cross-border partnership in the Euro-Mediterranean area;
Support the preparation and the submission of proposals;
Manage the relationships with the programs Management Authorities during the submission and the implementation of projects;
Information and training seminars on topics of interest;
Organization and management of the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation Summer School.
some of the cooperation projects we are involved in:
GMI. The Green MED Initiative
S&T Med. Sustainability and Tourism in the Mediterranean
FOSTEr in MED. Fosterin solar energy in the mediterranean sea
MedDiet. Mediterranean Diet and Enhancement of Traditional Foodstuff
ShMILE 2. From experimentation to dissemination of the Ecolabel in the Mediterranean
OPTIMED. Rationalising Mediterranean Sea Ways: from Southern-Eastern to Northern-Western ports
Tour Med Eau. Gestion durable de l’eau dans les territoires touristique de la Méditerranée
SOUTH-EAST ARCHERITAGE. Roman Empire Common Heritage in Southern and Eastern ENPI Countries
MED PORTS. Development of clusters in port logistics services of the Mediterranean Basin
BESTMED. Business Eco-Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean area
We can contribute to the ALF Network by offering our skills and our experience in the field of international cooperation, in particular in the countries of the Southern Mediterranean. The location of the OpenMed Association encourages cooperation being the lucky island Sardinia in the middle of the Mediterranean, in a strategic position representing a bridge between the north and south shores of the Mediterranean and contributing to the opening of relations and the construction of collaboration networks among partners of different countries.
Starting from these assumptions, the aim of the Association is to create, in each of the thematic areas of intervention, communities of potential partners who can talk through various interactive tools (e.g. OpenMedPro) and share specific information functional to operational planning and subsequent implementation of joint project ideas funded in particular by European programmes like ENPI CBC MED, PO MED, Italy-France Maritime, and others.
We want to join the ALF Network to enhance our experience and our skills through the mutual exchange with the ALF's members. Furthermore, we want to offer our knowledge, our experience and our partner's network to promote integration and exchange occasions through the implementation of cooperation projects and initiatives. We consider ALF Network an occasion to compare our approaches and our vision regarding the cooperation with the other members.