The first meeting of the Monitoring Committee (MC) of the Interreg NEXT MED Programme was held in Italy. The MC is the decision-making body of the Programme, chaired by the Region of Sardinia as Managing Authority, and is composed by members from the participating countries, as well as the European Commission.
The meeting was attended by delegates from 15 countries of the Mediterranean area – Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, which had already participated in the previous editions of the Programme (namely ENPI CBC Med 2007-2013 and ENI CBC Med 2014-2020), and Algeria and Türkiye as newcomers – as well as representatives of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (REGIO), the hosting institutions of the two Programme Branch Offices (Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, Jordan and the Generalitat Valenciana, Spain) and TESIM (Technical Support to the Implementation and Management of ENI CBC programmes, an EU-funded technical assistance project).
It was a strategic appointment, which gave the operational start to a new cycle of activities and opportunities within one of the largest transnational cooperation initiatives financed by the European Union under the European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) goal of the Cohesion Policy. With a budget of €253 million, Interreg NEXT MED’s main objective is to contribute to a smart, sustainable, fair development for all in the Mediterranean area, through balanced cooperation and multilevel governance.
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