Salinas across Mediterranean are today facing many pressures due to social values change and economic stresses; the market of their products is subject to strong competition from cheaper land-produced salt and the world trade. Faced with the need to be economically viable, salinas are confronted with the choice of closing, industrializing the production or changing the business orientation towards sustainable tourism and new artisanal products, already successfully experienced. A sustainable Salina is a salina that uses natural resources to generate economy but in a socially and environmentally respectful way, ensuring the use of resources in the future.

MedArtSal project is funded by the European Union under the ENI CBC Med Programme and promoted in four Med regions (Spain, Italy, Tunisia and Lebanon). The project total budget is € 3.2 million and the EU contribution is € 2.9 million (90%). MedArtSal aims to promote the sustainable development of the artisanal salinas, providing concrete support on economic, environmental and governance issues.

In this context the MedArtSal project is issuing call for proposals for sub-grants aiming at selecting and implementing the actions/activities to support Salinas owners or managers to increase the sustainability of their salina. Eligible activities under this call foster the salinas’ local economic development based on a sustainable salt production and development of new products/service, while preserving the local environmental and cultural values.

The overall call for proposal for sub-grant cover the four Project countries (Italy, Spain, Lebanon and Tunisia) for a total budget of 480.000 euro. Four sub-calls for proposal country-based and in national languages are issued in order to define actions/activities that better fit with national contexts.

This call for proposal is issued for salinas based in Italy.

The guidelines set out the rules for the submission, selection and implementation of the actions/activities financed under this call, in conformity with the ENI CBC MED Programme rules, which are applicable to the present call (available at http://www.enicbcmed.eu/home ). All call for proposal documents are provided in two languages (English and Italian). In case of discrepancies the English version prevails.

Sub-grant applicants are invited to submit an application in italian using the model of application form (Annex 2-1) and to provide all due document as listed in the guidelines.

Material of the Webinar held on February 26^th is available here:

Introductory video
1. MedArtSal project and programme of the Webinar [en]
2. MedArtSal Model and toolkit [en]
3. New applications of Macroalgae cultivated in La Esperanza salina(Spain) [en]
4. Testing case study -Pilot production of Dunaliella Salina microalgae in Sabkhas’ (in-land) Salina (Tunisia) [en]
5. Marketing Plan and e-commerce platform presentation [en]
6. Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism [en]
7. MEET Network [en]
8. NETWORK of Mediterranean artisanal SALINAS [en]
Tutorial Video:  “How to grow macroalgae in salt flats” & “Simple things you can do to improve biodiversity in Salinas” [sub-titles in English]
9. Presentation of sub-grant selection and awarding procedure [it]

AWARDED PROPOSALS

• Final list of the awarded proposals
  

EVALUATION PHASE
The evaluation phase of the proposals has been completed. The provisional list of the selected proposals and the provisional reserve list are published here: