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Collaboration with the membership and other actors within the Mediterranean on the MIO-ECSDE priority issues

MIO-ECSDE Priority issues are basically considered the main areas in which MIO-ECSDE works on the request of its members steadily for a long period of time. More specifically these include: Environmental Education, Public Participation and Awareness, Water Management-Desertification-Biodiversity, the EuroMed Partnership, Sustainable Tourism, and Waste.

Throughout all MIO-ECSDE activities, it is apparent that successful and productive collaborations with all active stakeholders in the region specialising in the MIO-ECSDE Priority Issues have been achieved. The members of the Executive Board have also played a crucial role in this as they have been very active in their respective fields of expertise (Youssef Nouri: Desertification and Education, Mohammed Ftouhi: Education and Public Awareness, Emad Adly: Water, Waste, Public Awareness, Emel Anil: Desertification, Soil Erosion, Deforestation ,etc.)

Working towards EU enlargement

MIO-ECSDE has developed collaboration with its members from the Mediterranean EU accession or candidate countries, namely with Cyprus and Malta but also with Turkey, and intends to continue to inform and assist them on the additional institutional and other requirements and adaptations needed concerning the environment and their new role, even from a distance (correspondence, communication)

Capacity building

In March (22-29, 2001), during the summer school holiday period in Tunisia, three secondary school teachers and an environmental law graduate, in the process of preparing to become a permanent "cadre" (staff) in APNEK (Tunisia) came to Athens for a one-week stay that would allow them to find out -on the spot- about MIO-ECSDE, learn more on how NGO works, understand more concretely the EU and UNEP/MAP system, etc. Major emphasis was given to the different educational projects carried out by MIO-ECSDE with its partner Mediterranean NGOs