Mediterranean 2000
	Activities Foreseen
	Information - Fair Trade - Ethical Funding/Microfinance Agroecology/Biodiversity - Eco-villages - Balkans

Some activities foreseen during the numerous informal meetings between participants:

• Information
• to provide a forum on the web for people and organizations to engage in joint projects and initiatives and for the dissemination of information;
• to create communication facilities (electronic conferences and discussion groups, etc.);
• to create a database (mapping participants areas of interest, expertise, intervention, etc.)
• Fair trade
• to identify local producer organizations, and build up fair trade relationships;
• to organize awareness campaigns between producers and consumers;
• to open fair trade shops in selected cities of the Mediterranean: Athenes, Istambul, Tel-Aviv, Gaza, Alexandria, Tunis, Alger, Tetouan;
• Ethical funding/microfinance
• to open information desks in selected cities;
• to implement studies in selected countries;
• to offer expertise and training opportunities to local communities in building up their own banking support systems at the benefit of low-income people and groups;
• Agroecology/Biodiversity
• to create an online seeds catalogue;
• to offer expertise and training opportunities for practitioners; in the field of local biodiversity conservation;
• to support the setting up of organic farming certification bodies and to offer training opportunities;
• Eco-villages
• to organize thematic workshops and field activities: ecovillage planning and design, permaculture, community building, etc.
• to offer expertise;

• Balkans
• to promote awareness campaigns and discussion forums aiming at incorporating the concerns of peace, democracy and people self-determination in the region into Euro-Mediterranean scenario;