ICALPE has been in Cagliari, in Sardinia (Italy), on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, to sign the Subsidy Contract with the Joint Managing Authority of the ENPI CBCMED Programme, for the implementation of the VILLAGES project – Transfer of know-how in the Mediterranean for the sustainable development of the local communities of the less favored rural areas – of which it is the Lead Partner.
The project activities can get started from now on, and the kick-off meeting of the project will be held during the last quarter of this year 2011.

Please, follow its implementation on the web site, which will be online soon.

ICALPE has been commissioned for a technical assistance and animation mission to create a model forest in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. The PACA region, founding member of the Mediterranean Model Forest Network is a partner of the European cooperation project MED Forêt Modèle.

The region wants to develop an innovative tool that is the Model Forest concept to renew and improve its regional policy in this domain. 

Firstly, the massive concerned by this Model Forest process are: l'Etoile, le Garlaban, la Sainte Baume, les Maures.

For more information visit the website of the Model Forest project in PACA Region: www.foretmodele-paca.eu

This region of Sweden has developed, through its Institute for Rural Development (JILU), a training system for artisanal cheese production around an "educational dairy". This experience is likely to meet the development needs of the farmer and artisan cheese producers in Corsica. Accordingly, l'Office de Développement Agricole et Rural de la Corse was a candidate to transfer this good practice in Corsica.

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In the process of creating a Forest Model in Algeria, several missions were conducted in 2010 by ICALPE and the Networks Mediterranean and International Model Forest in the region selected by the Algerian government to host the Model Forest: Wilaya Tlemcen.

Following the workshops, an office manager has been appointed, bringing together different stakeholders in the sustainable management of natural resources.

1st to 10th February, ICALPE conducted a mission in Tlemcen to help local partners to finalize a first action plan to launch the Model Forest of Tlemcen. A visit to the steppe zone and the valley of the Beni Snoussi was organized, two areas where sustainable management is a central concern of the partnership.
Following this mission, "a plan of action to launch the Model Forest of Tlemcen" for 2011 was submitted to the secretariat of the International Model Forest Network.