Josep Rodríguez. Responsible for International Relations, Tourism Department, Barcelona Provincial Council and Coordinator of the MED Sustainable Tourism Community.
Engineer, degree in Humanities and postgraduate degree in Tourism Destination Management. He has more than 25 years of experience in the management of European and international projects and, for the past six years, he has focused his work on the tourism sector. Coordinator of the MED Community for Sustainable Tourism, a project funded by the European program INTERREG MED, which integrates thirty projects and more than two hundred entities working in the field of tourism sustainability in the Mediterranean.
Josep Rodríguez
All Sessions by Josep Rodríguez
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Day 1 June 8th, 2022
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10:45
Outputs and best practices of the MED Sustainable Tourism Community
10:45 - 11:15Ms. Dora Papatheochari, Researcher, University of Thessaly
Ms. Gloria Lázaro, Programme Officer, Plan Bleu
Introduction: Mr. Josep Rodríguez, MED Sustainable Tourism Community Coordinator, Barcelona Provincial CouncilThe MED Sustainable Tourism Community is an Interreg MED initiative co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) launched in November 2016. It gathers 30 territorial cooperation projects and more than 200 organisations active in 13 European countries that join forces to make tourism a real driver for inclusive and sustainable growth. After a period of six years of implementation, the Community will introduce the second edition of the Catalogue of outputs that collects the main solutions developed by the projects of the Community, and a Best practices report on capitalisation that showcase how the results have improved the public policies on tourism.
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Day 2 June 9th, 2022
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09:15
Funding the transition towards sustainable tourism
09:15 - 09:45Mr. Kai Böhme, Managing Director, Spatial Foresight (online)
Ms. Pascale Fauveau-Lagaye, Project Officer, Interreg MED Joint Secretariat
Mr. Thomas Guillot, Project Officer, NECSTouR - Network of European Regions for Sustainable and Competitive Tourism
Moderates: Mr. Josep Rodríguez, Coordinator MED Sustainable Tourism Community, Barcelona Provincial CouncilSeveral EU funding programmes provide support to tourism and its stakeholders in their efforts to become greener, digital and more resilient. Now we are living a special momentum with an unprecedented amount of money coming from the Next Generation recovery funds and also the foreseen cohesion funds for the programming period 2021-2027. In this session, we will know how the EU programmes have been used in favour of the sustainable tourism in the past and it will be introduced the Handbook on the use of recovery funds & ERDF for the sustainable tourism produced by the MED Sustainable Tourism Community. There will be an opportunity too to get knowledge about the funding mechanisms for within the new Mediterranean cooperation programme Euro-MED.
