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Who we are
We are a non-profit Federation of 136 Mediterranean NGOs for Environment and Sustainable Development
What we do
We act as a technical and political platform for the intervention of NGOs in the Mediterranean scene
Our mission
Our mission is to protect the Natural Environment and Cultural Heritage and promote Sustainable Development in a peaceful Mediterranean
Our story
For more than twenty years we have been catalyzing synergies, joining forces & building bridges in the Euro-Mediterranean area
Latest News
Ocean Literacy for all Mediterranean People: The Ocean We Need for the Future We Want
The 79th issue of our journal Sustainable Mediterranean is dedicated to the 2021 Mediterranean Action Day (MAD 2021) campaign. MAD 2021 was all about Ocean Literacy: initiatives of the Mediterranean NGO community that inspire ocean citizenship and formulate effective...
MIO-ECSDE is part of an ambitious H2020 project supporting the delivery of a responsible and fair Green Deal
For all areas of the European Green Deal to succeed and meet their ambitious targets, behavioural change is required, along with long-term commitment, trust, social acceptance and buy-in from people, communities and organisations. Such changes include how we choose to...
Pope Francis presented with MIO-ECSDE’s Sustainable Mediterranean on climate change during his visit to Athens
When His Holiness Pope Francis issued in 2015 his founding encyclical on climate change and ecology, Laudato si’, it was an urgent call for action against the injustice of climate change and the ecological crisis, to protect generations to come. He has frequently...
Recent Projects
Featured Publication
Climate Change: The rapidly increasing challenge for the Mediterranean. Sustainable Mediterranean, Issue No 78, 2021.
Featured Publication
Assessing Marine Litter on Mediterranean Beaches. Filing in the knowledge gaps via a participatory-science initiative. MIO-ECSDE, 2019
Featured Publication
Marine Litter in Mediterranean coastal and marine protected areas. A snapshot assessment report on the amounts, composition and sources of marine litter found on beaches. Interreg Med ACT4LITTER & MIO-ECSDE, 2019
