The program MED is a transnational program of european territorial cooperation.
It is funded by the European Union as an instrument of its regional policy.

The program continues the tradition of the "European programs for the cooperation" (called before INTEREG). It develops the european territorial cooperation goal for the period 2007-2013.

With a budget of more than 256 million euros, the program covers the coast and the Mediterranean regions of nine been members.

The purpose of the program MED is to fund transnational actions taking the strategic community lines into account for the cohesion, the national strategies of structures of the member states, the specificity and the needs and potentials specific to the Mediterranean space.

 

Main goal
To make the Mediterranean zone an area with an enhanced capacity to compete in the international scene in order to insure the growth and the employment for the next generations, providing  support to the territorial cohesion and acting up in the protection of the environment and  sustainable development.

Priorities
To improve the competitiveness of the Mediterranean area in order to insure economic growth and the employment for the next generations (strategy of Lisbon)
To promote the territorial cohesion and the protection of the environment, in accordance with the logic of the sustainable growth (strategy of Goteborg)

Specificity
The program MED has identified: four specific priorities, being the fourth the priority where our project (promotion of a polycentric and integrated development of the Mediterranean space) is framed.

In this axe 4, the project MED EMPORION is set in the goal 4.2: strengthening of the identity and improvement of the cultural resources for a better integration of the Mediterranean space.

Our goal (4.2)
1. Development of the transnational nets and common support to the transnational |management of the cultural nodes (urban areas, historical centers, cultural districts, world-wide inheritance of the UNESCO, etc).

2. Promotion of transnational initiatives increasing the role of the historical inheritance and the cultural resources (material and immaterial) in a prospect of integrated territorial development.

3. Support of the exchanges of tools and development of common strategies while increasing the cultural services of innovation. Promotion of the cultural initiatives in order to increase the economic attractiveness in the area (tourism of business, congresses, fairs, lectures, etc).

4. Disseminating the experiences for a better economic appraisal of the local and regional inheritance and of the cultural resources.