Medgovernance project fits into the so-called European territorial cooperation of the renewed European policy of the Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The MED programmeis a transnational programme of European territorial cooperation . It's financed by the European Union as an instrument of its regional policy of the new programming period 2007/2013.

With a budget of more than 250 billion Euros, the programme covers the coastal and Mediterranean regions of nine EU Member States. The partnership is enlarged by the participation of Mediterranean countries which are candidates or potential candidates to the European Union.

Its priorities are:

• To improve the area's competitiveness in a way that guarantees growth and employment for the next generations (Lisbon strategy).
• To promote territorial cohesion and environmental protection, according to the logic of sustainable development (Goteborg strategy).

For more information, please visit www.programmemed.eu