Mediterranean 2000
	Working Groups
	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 - L'ALLEE 
• 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;