The 3rd transnational event of the Interreg MED Green Growth Community took place in Durrës, Albania, between 15 and 16 November 2018. It was the first time the MED Green Growth Community organized such an event in a Balkan country. The 3rd transnational event of the Community analyzed the role of policy makers in enhancing the Green Growth innovation and policies and created contexts of exchanges on the impact of several key players in boosting Green Growth economies.
The event benefited from the participation of a large number of MED stakeholders, such as national, regional and local authorities, companies, professional associations and research centres coming from Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. Various institutional actors (ministries, national institutes of statistics, international and regional development agencies, and municipalities) from different regions and countries presented their initiatives and vision on green growth innovation and policies and analyzed their consistency and complementarities with those of other MED countries.
The 3rd transnational event kick-off with a community building session organized with the representatives of the 14 modular projects belonging to the Interreg MED Green Growth community (the participation at this session is restricted to project partners only). The event represented the first technical working meeting of the Community that was enlarged with 8 new projects in 2018. It aimed to create a functional framework for the next year within which the modular projects closely work together in thematic groups, both online and face-to-face, to strengthen their capitalization and policy inputs activities, as well as to develop joint political statements.