Interreg MADRE
Metropolitan Agriculture for Developing an innovative, sustainable and Responsible Economy
MADRE aims to change the metropolitan food supply model by capitalising on existing good practices, by empowering the different stakeholders in metropolitan and peri-urban agriculture, and by initiating a dynamic of transnational cooperation in the MED region.
This European project of territorial cooperation in the Mediterranean is implemented within the framework of the Interreg MED program, financed by the European Union.
The objectives of MADRE are:
- To improve the innovation capacity of metropolitan agriculture in the Mediterranean territories;
- To identify and evaluate the economic, environmental and social performance factors of metropolitan agriculture;
- To identify and network metropolitan agriculture stakeholders;
- To assess the feasibility, conditions and means of creating a transnational cluster of actors in metropolitan agriculture.
The MADRE project will be implemented from February 2017 to July 2018 with a total budget of € 1.17 mln co-financed € 0.99 mln by the Interreg MED Program.
The emergence of a transnational cluster will be supported by a multidisciplinary partnership from 5 countries: France (AVITEM, ANIMA, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier), Italy (Metropolitan City of Bologna), Spain (MedCities – Barcelona Metropolitan Area), Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Albania (Agricultural University of Tirana), each partner representing a flagsghip metropolitan area.
More information on the Interreg MED program and MADRE