{"id":26182,"date":"2025-09-29T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avitem.fr\/?page_id=26182"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:30:17","slug":"the-agency-for-sustainable-mediterranean-cities-and-territories-avitem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avitem.fr\/en\/the-agency-for-sustainable-mediterranean-cities-and-territories-avitem","title":{"rendered":"The Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AVITEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Who we are<\/h2>\n\n

The Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AVITEM)<\/strong> is a French cooperation agency dedicated to the Mediterranean, considered a strategic region as a strategic area for both France and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n

It is a public interest grouping created in 2012, bringing together the French State with the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and local and regional authorities \u2013 the Southern Region \u2013 Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Region, Territorial Collectivity of Corsica, the Nice C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur Metropolitan Area, the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitan Area, the City of Marseille \u2013 as well as two public institutions, the Eurom\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Public Urban Development Agency, and the Marseille Fos Port \u2013 Grand Port Maritime de Marseille.<\/p>\n\n

AViTeM acts as an accelerator of cooperation on the concrete challenges of territorial transformation. For the past 13 years, our priority themes\u2013strategic regional planning, ecological transition projects (nature-based solutions, circular economy, health and nature, port decarbonisation, sustainable tourism, and risk resilience)\u2013have been addressed through numerous European programmes as well as French bilateral decentralised cooperation.<\/p>\n\n

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AVITEM activities are structured around three main missions contributing to shape the future of the Mediterranean territories: setting up experimental and strategic planning projects, training and capacity-building, and networking for the co-construction of trans-organisational programmes.<\/p>\n\n

In addition, metropolitan expertise and immersion seminars\u2013training courses on metropolitan policies for elected representatives, public or private planning and development professionals from across the Mediterranean\u2013have made it possible to investigate almost all of the major Mediterranean cities. This work led in partnership with the Campus Group AFD, has helped to forge a strong network of metropolitan actors, and to produce capitalisation tools such as the Metropolitan Booklets.<\/p>\n\n

The AVITEM methodology enables field-based experience, fostering direct engagement with local stakeholders, share good practices and inspirations while facilitating collective debate to cultivate potential new partnerships.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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