MED'ACT
This project, aimed at effectively managing the environment and improving quality of living in urban areas, was carried out over a 12-month period, in 2004 and 2005, in partnership with the cities of Genoa (Italy), Side Abdullah (Algeria) and Amioun (Lebanon). Endowed with EUR 470 000 in European subsidies, it has enabled Marseilles to confirm its policy of openness to the Mediterranean Basin.
MED-PACT
Marseilles, as project leader, was chosen by the European Commission in 2006, as part of a coastal engineering and sustainable development cooperation project in the Mediterranean with its partners: Gdansk (Poland), Rabat (Morocco), Alexandria (Egypt) and the Urban Community of Al-Fayhaa (Lebanon). Marseille Mission Europe has set up a creative partnership between these cities hailing from different cultures and secured EUR 620 000 in European subsidies.