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16/09/2025
The 36th EGPL Annual Reunion
The European Public Law Organization (EPLO) successfully hosted the 2025 Reunion of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL) on 12–13 September 2025, bringing together distinguished judges, academics, and
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Project Title:
FOODGaP: Food Governance and Policies at local level
Donor: EU – Interreg NEXT MED, European Commission
Coordinator: CIHEAM Bari
Partners: European Public Law Organisation, Municipality of Tyre, Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Municipality of Djerba Houmt Souk
Project starting date: 08/07/2025
Project duration: 36 months
Countries: Italy, Lebanon, Türkiye, Greece, Tunisia
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
The FOODGaP: Food Governance and Policies at Local Level project empowers Mediterranean cities and local authorities to play a leading role in creating healthier, fairer, and more sustainable food systems. Its main goals are to:
- Strengthen food security
- Strengthen local leadership by giving cities the tools to design and manage food policies.
- Bring people together by involving citizens, businesses and researchers in shaping solutions.
- Connect cities and rural areas to support balanced development across territories.
- Encourage cooperation across the Mediterranean and ensure local voices are heard in global food policy dialogue.
- Support the green, social and digital transitions in line with European and international priorities.
To make these goals a reality, FOODGaP will:
- Build institutional capacities of local authorities to co-design and deliver food policies.
- Pilot 4 local food policies in Tyre (LB), Mersin (TR), Rome (IT), Houmt Souk (TN), engaging at least 50 stakeholders per city.
- Implement 1 key action per pilot city to demonstrate effective participatory governance.
- Create a Mediterranean Coalition of at least 15 cross-border/EU organizations to scale the FOODGaP approach.
- Develop an IT platform to share methods, tools and outcomes for replication.
ACTIVITIES
EPLO will participate in the following WPs/Activities:
- WP1 - Management and coordination
- WP2 - Communication and dissemination initiatives
- WP3 - Project implementation: Transnational capacity building for a common knowledge on food policies, Peer learning workshops, City-to-city exchange programme
- WP4 - Project implementation: Building local food systems' participatory governance models, Comparative analysis of participatory governance practices, Co-design of local governance models
- WP5 - Project implementation: Pilot actions to test participatory governance models for local food policy development, Local living labs set up, Transnational events
- WP6 - Project implementation: Mediterranean Food Policy Coalition and creation of IT platform
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