environmental protection
On 26–27 June 2025, the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) participated in the fourth TREASURE project meeting in Bar, Montenegro.
The event brought together all project partners for two days of intensive discussions aimed at advancing innovative environmental remediation solutions in port areas.
The CEI has recently contributed to advancing maritime environmental governance in the Adriatic through a regional workshop held in Kotor, Montenegro on 25 June 2025.
At the 16th Meeting of the REMPEC Focal points, held in Sliema (Malta) on 13-15 May, the CEI-led ASAP project ADRIATIC SENSITIVE AREAS PROTECTION –
On 25 March, the ASAP Steering Committee, led by the CEI – Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES), convened in Portorož, Slovenia, for a key project meeting hosted by the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana (UL-FPP).
Local and international stakeholders gathered in Durres, Albania, on 19 February to discuss preservation, protection and exploitation of the marine environment, which is essential to support blue growth, and the wide range of sectors involved, from fishery, aquaculture, maritime transport, coastal, marine and maritime tourism.
On 14 February 2025, the CEI-Executive Secretariat participated in a seminar on “Territorial Cooperation in Europe and in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia”, organised by the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Trieste.
On 11 February, CEI Secretary General Franco Dal Mas took part in a coordination meeting at the Rectorate of the University of Udine, focused on the goal of making the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region (FVG) a model of resilience for Europe.
In the framework of an EU-funded project TREASURE - Testing novel environmental quality measures in and around euro-med ports - on 29-30 November, the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) attended the 2nd Mission for Natural Heritage Institutional Dialogue event, which
On 27 November in Udine the CEI- Executive Secretariat took part in the “ResiliEnhance Platform 2024 Meeting” gathering experts and stakeholders from Central and Eastern Europe at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine.
On 15 -16 October in Valencia, the CEI-Executive Secretariat attended the second project meeting of the TREASURE project, organised in Valencia by the Fundacion Valenciaport.
Building on the success of the NAMIRS project, a new project funded by the Interreg IPA Adrion Programme, ASAP - the Adriatic Sensitive Areas Protection - Mechanism, was officially launched on 24 September 2024 at the CEI’s premises.
The International Conference on the Future of Cycling in Albania was held in Tirana on 4 May 2024.
The TREASURE – Testing novel environmental quality measures in and around Euro-MED ports – project, aimed at enhancing environmental quality in Mediterranean port areas, successfully launched with a kick-off meeting held in Livorno on 3-4 April, 2024.
Representatives from Italy, Croatia and Slovenia gathered on 20 February at the CEI Headquarters for the final conference of the project North Adriatic Maritime Incident Response System (NAMIRS).
The CEI-Executive Secretariat has recently participated in the Annual event hosted by the DG-ECHO on the state-of-play of Disaster Resiliance Societies research and innovation which took place in Brussels from 4-7 December 2023.
The 23rd Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols (COP 23) is making waves as the CEI - Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) takes the spotlight with its contributions towards a prosperous, sustainable and safer Mediterranean.
On 20 November in Trieste, the Maritime Directorate of Trieste, in collaboration with Slovenian and Croatian partners, successfully concluded a groundbreaking transnational anti-pollution exercise in the Northern Adriatic.