The European Green Growth community coordinated by the BETA Technological Center meets at UVic-UCC at the beginning of its second phase

The members of the Green Growth European community are meeting to launch the second phase of this project at UVic-UCC this Thursday and Friday. The community is coordinated by the BETA Technological Center under the auspices of the Interreg MED programme, and shares and creates synergies between institutions, organisations and companies in the Mediterranean working towards the region's sustainable development, in fields as diverse as the food industry, smart cities, waste management and obtaining funding. The foundations of their combined efforts over the next three years will be laid at the meeting at the Casa Convalescència in Vic.

During this period, which will continue until June 2022, the members coordinated by the BETA Technological Center will be organised in four main working groups, covering four major subject areas aligned with European environmental policies: efficiency in the use of natural resources; green and intelligent management of public services; waste management and reduction, and competitiveness and innovation. The aim of the initiative is to act as an umbrella for various projects to have a real and significant impact on the territory.

In its first three years, from November 2016 until last October, the project was named Synggi (Synergies for Green Growth Initiatives) and it focused on shaping and launching the community, which is now operating at full capacity. Apart from UVic-UCC, which is the leading member through the BETA Technological Center, the other members of the community are an Italian consortium that includes most Italian universities working on industrial and managerial economic issues (CUEIM), the Centre for Energy, Environment and Resources (CENER21) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the companies Dynamic Vision from Greece and REVOLVE Mediterráneo from Barcelona, the French network ANIMA Investment, and the European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN) in Belgium.

Last autumn, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) endorsed the Green Growth community, giving it a seal that is awarded to projects that the 43 countries in this intergovernmental organisation unanimously believe are important for the future of the territory.