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Within the MedSpring (Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway) project, an important component is the Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group (EMEG), a groups of 45 experts coming from EU Member States (MS), Associated Countries (AC) and Southern Mediterranean Countries, having different backgrounds and representing different stakes: research, innovation, policy, private sector, socio-economics, gender issue and others.
Why an open consultation?
An open consultation is a participative instrument to open the decision-making process to all those willing to get involved. Its main objective is to listen to often unheard voices and make good use of them: it is a first step towards a participative democracy.
Concerning the Euro-Mediterranean region and the issues at stake, water scarcity, high quality affordable food, and energy, launching an open consultation aims to act as a bridge between three groups often acting independently one from the other: society, the science community, and policy-makers.
The overall objective of this consultation is to channel attention and resources in the most proper way, taking into account the real needs and priorities expressed collectively by the three groups.
Specifically, the proposed open consultation
aims to receive feedback and comments from civil society in order to better assess and orient actions to be taken.
Since the policies addressing water, food and energy concern all of us, the broader the sharing of ideas, the better the outcomes will be.
Why participate?
Your comments and feedback will be taken seriously and discussed extensively by the participants in EMEG; you may raise some points that have not received enough attention by the science community; or you can offer your experiences or ideas as potential solutions to today's problem. Above all, you can offer your assessment of today's challenges with respect to water, food and energy.
All your suggestions and comments will form part of EMEG's recommendations and inputs for actions to the European Commission thus contributing to frame and orient the Euro-Mediterranean agenda.
Additionally, you will be offered another occasion to directly engage with some of the representatives of EMEG: in mid-June 2013 a two-days meeting will be held in Lisbon to bring together all EMEG representatives. In this occasion, a section of the meeting will be dedicated to comments and questions via social media channels to the representatives of EMEG. Those who have actively taken part in the open consultation will be invited to join “digitally” the discussion, bringing their points of view directly to the meeting.
We invite you to take part in the consultation and to tell us what is your opinion regarding the points raised in the document.
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