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Interreg MED Green Growth Community Newsletter
April 2020

Dear colleagues, 

Welcome to the Interreg MED Green Growth Community first 2020 biannual newsletter! This year, we are launching the second phase of our efforts to promote Euro-Mediterranean green growth in line with the EU Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan by further building upon and capitalising on the first phase of our project (2016-2019).

The Green Growth Community also extends its wishes of health and wellbeing to all our readers in the current context of COVID-19. Despite the challenges we face due to this global emergency, we remain fully committed to advocating for green growth in the Mediterranean region and are fully operational in our work. More than ever, we need to cooperate together as a global community to be the change that we want to see!
Spotlights
 The Interreg MED Green Growth Community Platform
One of the main pillars of the Interreg MED Green Growth Community is its Community Platform, through which it shares the 14 project results and materials and develops new partnerships and synergies between institutions and stakeholders. Visit the platform to join the Community!
A Project Labelled by the UfM

The Union for the Mediterranean labelled the Green Growth Community in October 2019, acknowledging its potential to advance cooperation in the transition to a green and circular economy and to deliver concrete benefits to the citizens of the Mediterranean region. Read more here. 
How the Green Growth Community Works
The core of the Community is formed by 4 Thematic Working groups that cluster its 14 projects around the key priority areas of the EU Green Deal and the EU Circular Economy Action Plan. Together, these groups produced outputs aimed at decision-makers and institutional bodies, including Legal Recommendations, Policy Recommendations, thematic White Papers on the Circular Economy and a Green Growth Book. The Community works on the following thematic areas:
The Community targets the audiences contained in the "Quadruple Helix" below in order to impulse multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral green growth efforts in the region:
Green Growth Project Highlights
Green Growth Project ESMARTCITY supports Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

In March 2020, the Green Growth Project ESMARTCITY published a “Green Paper for Innovation Policy Change: Enabling Smarter City in the MED Area through Networking”. ESMARTCITY aims to promote Mediterranean smart cities that innovate and invest in digital solutions to offer better services to citizens, reduce the environmental impacts of urban spaces and produce new employability and living scenarios. Read the paper here and learn more about ESMARTCITY here.
Green Growth Project GRASPINNO supports Green Public Procurement and Energy Efficiency in the Mediterranean

The Green Growth GRASPINNO project has completed after 3 years of promoting solutions for energy management in public buildings, supporting strategies and decision-making, and focusing on electronic green public procurement for the refurbishment of public buildings. Learn more about GRASPINNO here.
Updates from the Green Growth Community
Kicking off the project's second phase!

On 6-7 February 2020, the Green Growth community gathered at the kick-off meeting of the second phase of the Interreg MED Green Growth project. They met at the BETA Center (University of Vic-University of Central Catalonia, Spain) to imagine how the Community can capitalise and transfer its project results to impact the Mediterranean region and beyond. Discover the new partners here. 
Interview : “Green Growth Community spurs Sustainable Cooperation”



To learn more about our Community, read this Q&A Interview with Mercè Boy Roura, Coordinator of the Green Growth Community.
Updates from Interreg MED
Madrid, February 2020 — A unique opportunity for Interreg MED partners

The Interreg MED governance project PANORAMED gathered all Interreg MED actors to discuss the overall governance of the Interreg MED community. This was a unique opportunity to meet with partners, Horizontal projects and Strategic projects representatives all together to deal with issues of common concern for the Interreg MED Community and its upcoming actions. Learn more here.
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