The EU-funded SwitchMed project has issued a call for contributions for suggestions for speakers and sessions for the second edition of its annual gathering SwitchMed Connect to be held on 18–20 October 2016 in Barcelona.
The project invites practitioners from the field, projects and initiatives, SMEs entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their experience, challenges, ideas and plans. The deadline for submitting contributions is 1 June 2016.
Launched in October 2015, SwitchMed Connect is home to a growing community of passionate individuals from the Mediterranean Region who are committed to shift toward sustainable consumption and production in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.
The SwitchMed sustainable consumption and production programme aims to promote a switch of the Mediterranean economies towards sustainable consumption and production patterns and green economy, including low emission development, through demonstration and dissemination of methods that improve resource and energy efficiency. It also seeks to minimise the environmental impacts associated to the life cycle of products and services, and, as opportune, to promote renewable energy. (EU Neighbourhood Info)