University of Montenegro at PANORAMED DIALOGUES regional online conference - 23.11.2021

In order to improve multilevel governance in the Mediterranean in support of sustainable development PANORAMED project organized today PANORAMED DIALOGUE online conference (23.11.2021) with stakeholders across the Mediterranean, to discuss the sustainability road ahead of Mediterranean.

Ms. Srna Sudar, Head of Technology Transfer center of University of Montenegro, in the capacity of her position and professional expertise and knowledge of the work and efforts of INTERREG MED horizontal project PANACeA/MBPC, discussed and contributed to “Innovative approaches to a reasonable use of resources”, with specific focus on marine resources and national priorities and challenges, in light of Montenegro’s recent declaration of two marine protected areas – Platamuni i Katič, and awaiting declaration of the third one – Stari Ulcinj.

PANORAMED is a governance platform that supports the process of strengthening and developing multilateral cooperation frameworks in the Mediterranean region for joint responses to common challenges and opportunities.

Within PANORAMED there are strategic projects about: Coastal & maritime sustainable tourism: cruise tourism, integrated coastal and maritime tourism, sustainable and innovative touristic offer; Maritime surveillance: maritime security, marine environment, multimodal maritime transport and Innovation: blue technology, social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Project partners include: Spain, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Catalonia, Crete, Croatia, Cypro, Emilia-Romagna Region, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Marche Region, Molise Region, Montenegro, Portugal, Région du Sud (France), Slovenia and Toscana Region.

The Mediterranean is a very heterogeneous cooperation area identified by:

• Diversity of geographical, socio-economic and political contexts that vary significantly from one region to another;
• Cohabitation of a large amount of stakeholders dealing with several dimensions of governance;
• Concentration of various EU and internationally funded programmes, projects, networks, organizations and platforms without a common framework challenging the mainstreaming of results into policy level.

Undoubtedly, there is a strong need to coordinate different activities and policies contributing to the sustainable socio-economic development and protection of the Mediterranean, by improving institutional capacity of the concerned stakeholders and by involving them and their networks into an effort of integrated discussion and planning at transnational level.

In this challenging context, where an effective action requires strong interregional cooperation, arises PANORAMED whose overall objective is to establish an innovative permanent dialogue and decision making process among national and regional public authorities and stakeholders. The project will reinforce their institutional capacity in the definition of a transnational governance joint framework for the identification and implementation of shared approaches, policies and strategic projects on set themes: COASTAL AND MARITIME TOURISM, MARITIME SURVEILLANCE, INNOVATION

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