Date: March 01, 2022 to March 02, 2022
Place: Hybrid (Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) offices and Online), Barcelona - Spain
Description of the event:
The European Commission, in close collaboration with the UfM and the BlueMed Pilot team are organizing the workshop “Working together towards a Mediterranean lighthouse for the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters”, that will be held on 1st and 2nd March 2022 at the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in Barcelona.
The first day of will be focused on examining the work done in the past years in the frame of the BlueMed Pilot Action On A Healthy Plastic-Free Mediterranean Sea, its methodology and achievements on how to promote the connection of and exchange between different initiatives at national and basin-level and how to replicate and scale up initiatives across the Mediterranean. The participants will also discuss how to leverage the BlueMed experience to build and implement the Mediterranean Lighthouse of the European Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”.
The second day will bring together, in a hybrid workshop, the BlueMed GSO working group, the UfM Blue Economy working group and the UfM Environment and Climate Change working group, to learn more about and discuss the new European Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” and the new opportunities for synergies and cooperation it offers.
The workshop will take place as a hybrid event in Barcelona alternating digital contributions to interventions in person at the venue.
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