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"SD-Med Café": an "SD-Med Café" by six months, to present and discuss innovative subjects on environmental quality and energy performance of buildings, about certification, adaptation of city to climate change, about sustainable neighborhoods,"green value" issues...and several other topics.... covering the integration of sustainable development in all spatial scales ...... to follow!

Inauguration and 1st "SD-Med Café": December 2011 on the subject of certification.

Athens, Greece, June 19-23, 2010

" URBAN REGENERATION AND CITY BRANDING:IS MEMORY AN ASSET OR AN OBSTACLE?"

40th Annual Conference of the Johns Hopkins International Fellows in Urban Studies, Professor Georges Prevelakis, organizer

Institutional partners : Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Museum of the City of Athens, Organization for Planning and Environmental Protection of Athens, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens, SD Med Association, Sorbonne (Paris 1) University and UMR Géographie-cités

Final Program

Action plan for sustainable building and construction in the Mediterranean

(presented by St.Kyvelou&D.Bidou at the Global SB05 Tokyo)

SD-Med has been assigned honorary member of the SBC Italia which is member of the SBAlliance. For more information on the Italian initiatives on sustainable building, please visit our Italian coordinator's, Adriano BELONE, web page : www.ediliziaecologica.blogspot.com

SD-Med in co-operation with the French Institute of Athens/Cooperation Service, participates in the SARD-M Project managed by FAO UN and EUROMONTANA. For more information please click here !

The 2nd French-hellenic Meeting for sustainable development, held on 16 and 17 march 2009 in the French Institute of Athens has had a great success !

About 300 participants, students and young researchers, politicians, public servants, NGOs, regional and local authority managers, general public... have been present !

"SD-MED Observation" would like to express its thanks and gratitude to the ambassador of France in Greece H.E Mr Christophe FARNAUD as well as to the Director of the French Institute of Athens and Councellor of Cooperation Mrs Catherine SUARD for having fully supported the realisation of this strategic initiative for territorial cohesion in the Mediterranean.

To download the speach of the Ambassador of France in Greece S.E Christophe FARNAUD, please click, here !
To download the salutation of the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Prof.Athanassios BOURAS, please click here !
To download the speach addressed by the Minister of Culture M.Antonis SAMARAS, please,click here !
For the presentation of M.Didier MICAHL, Representantive of the DIACT, please click here !
To download the speach of the Secretary general of european affairs of the ministry of foreign affairs M.Dimitrios KATSOUDAS, please click here ! ( in pdf )
To download the speach of the Secretary General of Public Administration and electronic government M.Vassilis ANDRONOPOULOS, please click here !
To download the salutation of the Rector of the University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens, Prof.Panayotis TSIRIS, click here !
To download the salutation of the President of the Hellenic Post Prof.Agelos BRATAKOS,please click here !
Message on behalf of André Marcon, president of Euromontana, to the attention of the participants to the 2nd Meeting for sustainable development, 16 and 17 march 2009
Presentation of Ivica TRUBIC, Director of CAR/PAP of the Mediterranean Action Plan of the UNEP
Presentation of Dora Avgoulidou, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Region of Central Macedonia
Contribution of Prof.Nikitas Chiotinis to the Round table IV "Culture to the service of cohesion"

* click here to download the poster and the banner of the event

New SD-Med Event 2009!

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the "2nd French-Hellenic Meeting for Sustainable Development" initiated by SD-Med on the theme "Mediterranean basin, territorial cohesion and sustainable development : the outcomes of the french presidency"

The meeting will be held in Athens on 16 and 17 March 2009 in the auditorium of the French Institute of Athens. The event will take place under the auspices of the French Embassy in Greece, the support of the Hellenic Parliament and the aegis of the Ministries of Interior, of Economy and Finance and of Culture aims to present the results of the French Presidency on the issue of territorial cohesion and to contribute to the development of dialogue and synergies on " mediterranean response" in view of the Green Paper on territorial cohesion which was published on 7 October 2008 by the European Commission.

The initiative for this event is taken by the SD-MED Observation, which is a Greek-French initiative and works for the cooperation between the structures of various levels (local, regional, national, international) and those of civil society who are actively integrated into the issues of territorial cohesion and sustainable development in the Mediterranean basin. The event is not just a convention, but a great public debate under the coordination of journalists and will be transmitted by the media: it will focus on the specifics of Balkan and Mediterranean environments, natural, social, economic... and will approach policies and programs aimed at enhancing territorial cohesion, putting in the heart of debates the coastal, island and mountainous regions.

Host of the event - to bring together professionals, experts, academics, researchers, senior government and local authorities and politicians, but also citizens and non-governmental organizations- is the strategic spatial planning and sustainable development Laboratory of Panteion University in cooperation and networking with the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne and other universities in Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean Region and the Balkans (Italy , Spain, Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria ....).

The Congress languages are French and Greek with simultaneous translation.

On behalf of the organizing committee, we hope to see you soon in Athens!

Sincerely,

Dr Stella Kyvelou

Assistant Professor, Panteion University

*The conference programme will be published in the coming days

REFERENCE EVENTS

31/10/08 : Conférence européenne sur la cohésion territoriale et l'avenir de la politique de cohésion

26/11/08 : Les ministres européens en charge de l'aménagement du territoire et de la politique de cohésion, réunis à Marseille le 26 novembre 2008, ont adopté une nouvelle étape de l'agenda territorial

New Project SD-Med : Collective work directed by Stella Kyvelou and Maro Sinou