A Mediterranean Governance for the Environment - MEDGOV Thematic Seminar

Medgovernance thematic seminar addressed to Environment will be held in Rome, March 24 2011. Maritime environment, regional strategies and Agenda 21 processes will be the core of the meeting, that will be participated by partners and stakeholders at Mediterranean and European level. Following the successful events of Florence and Marseille, Medgovernance agenda follows its agenda for 2011: a technical meeting of the Steering Committee will also occur in Rome  on March 23, to check the financial progress of the activities.

PROGRAMME
        
9.30 A.M. INSTITUTIONAL WELCOME
Marco Mattei - Assessor for Environment and sustainable development - Regione Lazio

9.45 A.M. GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
AND NETWORKS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
Debate on the main lessons learnt (in terms of effectiveness and need for governance) from the ongoing initiatives at local, national and EU level, which are all aimed at facing environmental issues in the Med area.

Moderatore:
Claudio Cattena - Regional Directorate for the Environment - Regione Lazio

- The Network of Managers of Protected Marine Areas in the Mediterranean
Giovanna Agostinelli - WWF Mediterranean Programme Office

- Results achieved from the analysis on Mediterranean governance: the contribution of networks and European Territorial Cooperation projects
Battistina Cugusi - CeSPI

- The Regione Lazio experience
Claudio Cattena - Regional Directorate for the Environment - Regione Lazio

- The experience of the Ministry for Environment and Territorial and Sea protection
Francesco Presicce - Department for Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Energy Ministry for Environment

Open debate

11:30 A.M. Coffee break

12.00 A.M. THE OPPORTUNITY OF A MACRO-REGION
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
Debate on the opportunity to create one or more macro-regions in the Mediterranean (among which the Ionic-Adriatic one), the goals to reach, the idea of macro-projects in the short term, in order to face the need for governance identified in the previous session.

Moderatore:
Marco Noccioli - Regional Director Turism - Regione Lazio

- Scenarios for a Mediterranean Macro-region
Andrea Stocchiero - CeSPI

- The position of the Italian institutions

Cons. Marco Riccardo Rusconi - Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Ivana Sacco - Department for the Development and Economic Cohesion - Ministry for Economic Development

Francesco Attaguile - Brussels Department and extra regional affairs - Sicily Region Presidency

Carmela Cotrone - Study and management of EU projects Unit - Campania Region

1.30 P.M. Lunch

2.30 P.M. Round table on STRATEGIC PROJECTS
Debate, among the stakeholders, on the main criteria and principles for the creation of macro-projects.

Moderator:
Paolo Lupino - Regional Directorate for the Environment - Regione Lazio

Which orientations for the creation of environmental macro-projects in the Mediterranean?

Participants:

- Wwf
- Ministry for the Environment
- Regione Lazio Regional Directorates

- EU partners in the Medgovernance project:
    * Regione Toscana (lead partner)
    * Regione Piemonte
    * Junta de Andalucía
    * Generalitat de Catalonya
    * P.A.C.A Region
    * Three Cultures Foundation, Seville
    * IEMed, Barcelona
    * Institut de la Méditerranée, Marseille
    * Paralleli, Turin
    * CeSPI, Rome
    * MAEM/MEMA, Florence
    * Plural European Study Centre, Genoa
    * Inter-Mediterranean Commission (IMC) of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR).

5.00 P.M. END OF THE SESSION