Ecomondo, which is kicking off in Italy next month has earned a reputaiton as an international reference for the circular economy.
Announces Corrado Peraboni, CEO of IEG, “this year the Italian Exhibition Group show, scheduled from 8th to 11th November at Rimini Expo Centre will be hosting “SwitchMed Connect” on the 9th and 10th as part of the Ecomondo forum.
It is a leading biennial European Union-funded event that promotes circular economy approaches in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.
“To mark the occasion,” Global Exhibition Director, Alessandra Astolfi, says, “the main Mediterranean stakeholders of the entire green ecosystem will be attending our prime event in green technologies to enable synergies, exchange know-how and speed up environmental and social innovations.”
“We are very grateful to Ecomondo to host our flagship event” states Enrique de Villamore, Director of MedWaves, responsible for the implementation of the event.
“SwitchMed Connect is a unique opportunity to bridge the two shores of the Mediterranean around the needed transition to Circular Economy in the region” he adds.
SwitchMed, founded in 2013 by the EU, is the result of collaboration between the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the Economics Division of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and MedWaves, the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production.
“SwichMed Connect” will see the Mediterranean’s leading start-ups, entrepreneurs, sector operators, political and financial institutions gathered at Ecomondo to promote and accelerate the transition to sustainable consumption and production models in the southern Mediterranean.
Day Two features the #EYESONBLUE ceremony awarding prizes to the three best entrepreneurs and their innovations around the so-called Blue Economy projects.
The contest is jointly organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), EU Neighbours South and the SwitchMed programme.
The programme includes “SwitchMed: sustainable and circular fish food systems for a Blue Economy in the Mediterranean” and conferences on transversal topics: textile and fashion industry, access to sustainable finance, circularity of plastics and open-eco innovation.
Calendar of events here Ecomondo 2022, now at its 25th edition and a forerunner on circular economy and sustainable development topics, will also be a partner of the first Mediterranean pavilion at COP27, the annual meeting of countries that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scheduled to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh from 6th to 18th November 2022.
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