Agro-business models in Mediterranean areas

[LAG Partenio (Italy)]

Local public-private rural development association – Partenio area, Italy (LAG PARTENIO).

Concerning the Programme Med 2014-2020 (Green Growth / Eco-Innovation; Approach: Study & Testing), LAG PARTENIO is searching for partners and stakeholders interested in taking part in a project that aims at comparing and evaluating sustainability of the existing EU and Mediterranean practices, patterns, indicators and tools related to the supply chain of local products, in order to develop new shared and sustainable agro-business models in Mediterranean areas and communities, orientated to resource efficiency in the field of local products in different sector (wine growing, dairy and other food industries, etc.

The “LAG (Local Action Group) PARTENIO”, according to the LEADER approach, is a local public-private development partnership constituted in 2008, having its headquarter in Santa Paolina (province of Avellino – Italy).
LAG PARTENIO, associating public and private partners, is a well-balanced entity, representative of the existing local interest groups, drawn from the different socioeconomic sectors in the area. Its territory is about 287,83 km2 and hosts about 70.000 inhabitants.

LAG is managed by a Members’ Assembly, a Board of Governors and a Board of Statutory Auditors. Its human resources consist of 1 coordinator, administrative & financial personnel, technical staff and a Development & Innovation Centre in charge of animating and stimulating public and private debates and participation.
It aims at stimulating sustainable local development by:
• combining available human and financial resources from the public sector, the private sector, the civic and voluntary sectors;
• aggregating local players in the frame of collective projects and multi-sectoral actions;
• strengthening dialogue and cooperation among different rural actors;
• facilitating processes of adaptation and changing in the agricultural sector, fostering quality of life and the integration of environmental concerns, ad well as the diversification of the rural economy.

The LAG PARTENIO promotes initiatives in a number of sectors, putting at disposal appropriate local resources in order to foster a durable and balanced development of the target territory, which is the “Partenio” – a rural area with its own identity and peculiarities. Key asset of the territories are, in fact:
• a significant agricultural production (wines, cheeses, chestnuts, etc. and more in general typical, biological and certified products);
• a beautiful environmental (protected areas), cultural (historical) and landscaping heritage.

Please contact us:
Address: Via Caprioli, 25 – 83030
Santa Paolina (AV), Italy
Tel.: +39 0825 964118
Fax: +39 0825 964990
E-mail: info@galpartenio.it / coordinamento@galpartenio.it
Web: http://www.galpartenio.it

[avipeParticipant]

Dear Sirs,

AVIPE is a non profit association that represents and helps wine grape producers. Besides the technical support for over 3500Ha with environmental certification, we have some projects about the farm management, the protection of portugueses wine grape varities, precision farming and other studies about wine grapes in general.

We would be really pleased if we could work together. This is just a brief presentation, so feel free to ask mor questions and how could we work together.

Thank you.
Miguel

[Development Agency GAL Genovese]

Dear Sir,
the Development Agency GAL Genovese is really interested in your project idea.
Our Agency has a long experience in different European projects (Interreg, MED, Alpine Space, Central Europe, ENPI CBC MED, Life) in local development and environmental field.
We would like to be taken into consideration for a possible partnership. In case you think our engagement would be useful or need some more detailed information about us, please let us know.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,

Annalisa Cevasco

[Nermina Basic]

The Municipality of Pljevlja
Introduction
The town
Pljevlja is a town in the very north of Montenegro, situated on the borders of three countries: Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Municipality of Pljevlja within Montenegro borders with the municipalities of Žabljak, Pljevlja and Bijelo Polje. With an area of 1,346 km2, it is the third largest municipality in Montenegro. The town is situated at an altitude of 770m. According to the census from 2011 there were 30,786 inhabitants in Pljevlja, of which 19,136 lived in the urban town area.
It was in the fifteenth century that the town got its present name Pljevlja. According to the legend the name Pljevlja comes from ”chaff cutters”, the chaff dispersed by the wind throughout the town from the monastic estates, where grain grew. With the arrival of the Turks it was again renamed Taslidža.
Pljevlja’s history and people
Pljevlja is a town of long and rich past, encountering place of different civilization.
The oldest urban settlement in the region of Pljevlja, “Old Pljevlja”, was situated nearby modern town of Pljevlja, on the locality of Komini. Among the scientists it is known as Roman Municipium S, although some researches call the settlement Soloniana and some others Splonum. The settlement existed from 1st to 4th century, but in the beginning it did not have any municipal rights. Majority of the population was by origin from this area, but there was also immigrants from the Eastern and Western part of the Roman Empire.
Since the settlement of the Slavs, and Serbs among them, to the Balkans in 6-8th century, the region of Pljevlja presented nucleus of the Serbian state territory, at the time of Vlastimirović dynasty (7 – mid 10 century), from the reign of prince Vlastimir until the reign of prince Časlav. For centuries, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial roads and cultural streams. Important international roads connecting the Littoral (Dubrovnik and Kotor) with the Eastern parts of the Balkans, primarily Thessaloniki and Constantinople, run through it. In the middle ages, the region of Pljevlja was also a part of nucleus of the Serbian state under Nemanjić dynasty, until the end of the rule of the Emperor Dušan (1355). After his death, Pljevlja was under the rule of Serbian autonomous rulers Vojislav Vojinović and Nikola Altomanović. After the defeat of Nikola Altomanović (1373), by the joint forces of prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and Bosnian ban Tvrtko I, the region of Pljevlja made a part of the eastern section of the medieval Bosnian state, which was one of several Serbian states at the time.
On the site of modern Pljevlja, there was a medieval market place called Breznica. In the documents from the Archives of Dubrovnik researched so far, Breznica was mentioned for the first time in 1348, while the name Pljevlja occured in documents for the first time in 1423. In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja was famous and well developed commercial center.
Since 1465 until the liberation in 1912, Pljevlja was under the Ottoman rule. The Ottoman Empire conquered, as it is well known, the whole Balkan region, as well as large part of the Central Europe. During the Ottoman offensive, after strong resistance, the fortress of Kukanj, residence of duke Stefan, was destroyed. Fearing from the Turks, many merchants, almost all feudal land owners and wealthier population fled from Pljevlja. They went to the territory of the Venetian Republic, Dubrovnik or Italy. Since 1576 until 1833, Pljevlja was the capital of the province of Herzegovina, i.e. sandjak of Herzegovina, which made of it an important political centre, in which lived and worked large number of people from the whole province. After the Congress of Berlin (1878) and Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pljevlja became capital of sandjak of Pljevlja.
In the census book from 1516, there were already 20 Muslim and 130 Christian households. Gradually, from Serbian medieval market place Pljevlja became Ottoman kasaba, taking the image of the Oriental town.
From the architectural, social and cultural point of view, the strongest influence to the development of Pljevlja in 16th century was given by Hussein pasha Boljanić, outstanding personality in the Ottoman hierarchy, who ordered construction of several public buildings among which the most distinguished building is Hussein pasha’s mosque in down town Pljevlja.
From the end of 17th century, after the Turkish defeat under Vienna and the great Vienna War (1683-1699), the Ottoman empire entered the period of long wars, demografic turbulences and international social unrests. That made impact on the confessional structure of population of Pljevlja. The urban part of Pljevlja was inhabited at the beginning of the 19th century by 3000 Muslim and 5000 Ortodox inhabitants.
After the first Balkan War, when the Allied Balkan states Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro defeated Turkey, Pljevlja was liberated from the Turkish rule. That was on 28th October 1912.
During the First, as well as the Second World War Pljevlja had suffered a lot, there were many cesualties and victims from this area. The Austro-Hungarian army seized Pljevlja briefly for the first time in 1914; after that, from the end of 1915 until end of October 1918 this region was under the Austro-Hungarian occupation.
Representatives of both confessions from the region of Pljevlja took part at the work of the Great people’ s Assembly of the Serbian people in Montenegro, in Podgorica, at the end of November 1918, where the decision about the uniting of Montenegro with Serbia was made. During the time of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which was called Yugoslavia since 1929), between the two world wars, the district of Pljevlja was in administrative sense a part of the Užice region, and later of Banovina of Zeta.
During the Second World War, first the Germans, and then the Italians occupied Pljevlja. Since 1945, the region of Pljevlja has been a part of Republic of Montenegro, within the Federal Yugoslav state.
The date of liberation of Pljevlja is 20th November which is celebrated as The day of the Municipality of Pljevlja.
Economic development
The first sign of the modern economic life in Pljevlja could be traced to the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century. The stronger economic development of Pljevlja started between the two world wars, and the strongest civilization level in this area was achieved after 1945.
Pljevlja has a huge natural resources: wide plains, high quality forests, considerable resources of coal, lead and zinc, important hydro-potential and favourable conditions for development of tourism. National park Durmitor partially belongs to the Municipality of Pljevlja.
Opening of the Pljevlja Coal Mine, Mine Suplja Stijena (lead and zinc) and construction of Pljevlja Termal Power Plant contributed to the fact that Pljevlja nowdays represents the economic and industrial centre of Montenegro.
Culture and education
Culture and education are all present throughout history of Pljevlja and its region. The first educational life, until the beginning of modern education, was organized in churches and monasteries, as well as in the mosques some time later. The St. Trinity monastery in Pljevlja is the richest treasury of cultural and spiritual life of the Ortodox Serbs from the Middle Ages to the present times. The St. Trinity, Dovolja and other monasteries were centre of book copying activities, as well as artistic and artistic craftworks centres. In treasury of the St. Trinity many valuable manuscripts from 16th century onward are kept. The very valuable manuscripts from 14th century were taken from Pljevlja’s monasteries and are kept today in libraries in Prague, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin and other European cities.
The monastery of St. Trinity has valuable collection of icons, among them some icons of Greek and Russian origin.
The Islamic cultural heritage of Pljevlja is also very rich. In the Hussein-pasha’s mosque some very old manuscripts, as well as printed books are kept, among which there are manuscript of Koran, in Arabic script, with beautiful illumination on gold. Copying of islamic theological, stylistic, law books, as well as book dedicated to the other fields of art and science, was also one of the well developed activities in this town.
School in the monastery of St. Trinity has been working continuously since 16th century. In 1823, primary school in Pljevlja started working. The Serbian High School was opened in 1901. Between the two world wars and after the Second World War several professional schools were established. Among Muslim Turkish schools, one of the most famous is madrasa from the end of 16th century. In 18th century Pljevlja had three mektebs (elementary schools), two madrasa and three tekis (dervish post). During 19th century, there were also several mektebs, madaras, and in the second half of 19th century establishment of rushdiyas (Junior High School) began.
Cultural institutions and sport
By the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, first modern cultural institutions in Pljevlja started working.
After the Second World War, in Pljevlja, there were several cultural institutions such as: Cultural Artistic Society “Volodja”, National Theatre, National Library, Regional Museum, Archive, cultural manifestation called “Days of humor and satire” dedicated to Vuko Bezarević, Art gallery “Vitomir Srbljanović“.
Pljevlja is a town with a long sports tradition.
In 1934 a football club “Breznik” was founded. The first founded club after the Second World War was a chess club “Pljevlja” in 1945. In 1948 two basketball clubs were founded both in female and male competition. A handball club Rudar (founded in 1957) has also a long tradition and a lot of success as well as an athletic club, volleyball clubs, karateists, etc.
In 1960, for the first time, the 7th Sandjak sports games were organized, and due to this the number of sports activities increased. Pljevlja was the first town in Montenegro which got the organization of these games.
There are a lot of sports clubs in Pljevlja today whose members compete with success in Montenegro and abroad.
Pljevlja has a football stadium, sports hall and beautiful park with tracks so it has all necessary conditions for trainings of sportsmen.
PROJECT GREEN MOUNTAIN – A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR GREEN MOUNTAIN AREAS project financed trougth SEE Transnational Cooperation Programme partner from MONTENEGRO was Municipality of Pljevlja. In the framework of the project online platform has been developed to promote the areas that are included project. Lead partner on this project was province of Macerata, Italia.

[I.rurParticipant]

Dear Sir,
I.rur is very interested in your project idea.
In fact I.rur has already worked on several projects concerning the construction of baskets of local products, the collective exploitation of local products, the analysis of the feasibility of establishment of networks of direct sales
I.rur – Rural Innovation conducts research, scientific and technical support, training, assistance in the planning and evaluation in three main areas: rural policies;, eco-museums and territorial development; agri food sector. The association aims to be the meeting point between e analyzing and programming, in the view of new interpretation and innovative methods.
We would like to be taken into consideration for a possible partnership; looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards.
I.rur – Rural Innovation Association

[Uniontrasporti]

Dear Sirs,

we would like to know more about your proposal.
Uniontrasporti is an “in house” company of the Italian Chambers of Commerce system and mainly acts as technical body supporting transport policies at national and local level in order to support the economic development of local territorial systems improving SMEs networking and competitiveness.
As representative of the Italian Chamber of commerce system, Uniontrasporti can reach a vast territorial network; firstly the enterprises that are represented by Chambers of commerce (with a special link with SMEs); and also public sector that is the prime interlocutor of each Chamber of commerce.

PLease contact us (delpiano@uniontrasporti.it) and we will send you more information about our organisation.

Looking forward to your news.

Kindest regards,
Uniontrasporti
(Milan, Italy)

[Javier Marzo FEDACOVA]

Dear all,

I email you on behalf of the Valencian Food Business Federation (FEDACOVA), bringing together 35 different Food Industries Associations, including the Spanish national associations of Ice creams and Tigernut Juice, Honey, Persimmon and Nuts, which in turn represent more than 2.600 companies.

This means that more than 70% of all businesses in the food and agriculture sector of the Region of Valencia are part of the Federation. There are a number of companies which, due to their size or particular characteristics, are associated directly with the Federation. This broad spectrum means that all types of companies are represented, from fishing wholesalers to potted goods manufacturers, and from supermarkets to food storage specialists, encompassing the whole value chain of the Food Industry and a broad range of subsectors.

During last two years I am in charge of the EU Project Department promoting our participation in different EU Proposals interesting for us and/or for our associates.

We remain at your disposal to extend possible collaboration.

Best regards,

[Dušanka Černalogar]

Dear Sir or Madam.

Development agency of Idrija and Cerkno (ICRA) form Slovenia contacted you by e-mail. In 15 years long performing of its activities ICRA has gained your project proposal relevant expertise. I send you our references by e-mail. We believe our agency could contribute to the preparation of project with the ideas, good practises, working on AF and if your partner consortia is still open we would be glad to have the opportunity to cooperate.

With kind regards.

Dušanka Černalogar
Development agency of Idrija and Cerkno
Mestni trg 1, 5280 Idrija, Slovenia
info@icra.si
http://www.icra

[Vesna DjukanovicParticipant]

Dear Sir,

Novi Grad Municipality (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is local community of mostly rural character and the main economic activity in our community is agriculture. According to that, we are very interested in your project idea. We have a long experience in different projects in agricultural, environmental, local development and the other fields.
If you choose us as a partner for the project, you will have a responsible and professional partner with whom you can achieve the common goals of sustainable economic development

According to above mentioned, we invite you to consider the possibility of cooperation with Novi Grad Municipality. In the case of interest, we kindly ask you to contact us in order to undertake the further steps related to our future and hopefully successful cooperation.

Please find enclosed more information about our Municipality.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Sincerely yours.

VESNA ĐUKANOVIĆ, Bachelor of Geography and Tourism
Independent Expert Assistant for Tourism

Novi Grad Municipality
Address: Petra Kočića 2, 79220 Novi Grad

TEL: 052/753-505
FAX: 052/751-555

E-MAIL: vesna.djukanovic@opstina-novigrad.com
WEB: http://www.opstina-novigrad.com

Attachments:

1. general-information.pdf

[MinEconomyHNCParticipant]

Dear sir,

Ministry of Economy of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, is very interested in your project idea. Please find our e-mail sent to info@galpartenio.it and coordinamento@galpartenio, that we can further discuss about the proposal and partnership.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Best regards.

Ministry of Economy Herzegovina-Neretva Canton
Federation of BiH
BiH

E-mail: majasimic@privredahnk.gov.ba / amelaomerika@privredahnk.gov.ba
Web: http://www.privredahnk.gov.ba/

[cadecParticipant]

The Corsican Developement Fund ( Caisse de Développement de la Corse) is a financial institution with public and private funding whose main shareholders are the Region of Corsica, the French state and various financial corporations.
In conjunction with regional, national and European public policies, our primary concern is about accelerating an inclusive, smart and sustainable growth for the island.
By allowing better access to bank financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, we support investments and, in the end, job creations in productive sectors of Corsica such as tourism, agro-food industry or else renewable energies.
We also pay close attention to financial support for start-ups through innovation funds.
The studying phase (M1) of our project consists in analyzing, understanding and comparing access to funding in the MED zone for setting up or development of businesses led by small or medium-sized enterprises aiming to promote green and blue growth.
The testing phase (M2) will consist in evaluating and challenging the best financial tools, in order to deploy and share the best practices in the cooperation zone.
We are consequently looking for partners likely to assist us in the M1 & M2 modules of this very concrete project aiming to improve access to bank financing for small and medium-sized enterprises in the cooperation zone, with a special attention for island issues.
Best Regards
Alex VINCIGUERRA – General Manager
CADEC – French Financial institution N 60220
Limited company with a capital of 5 001 240 euros
Head office: 6 avenue of Paris – BP 70063- 20000 AJACCIO – FRANCE
Tel: (00 33) 4.95.21.55.71
Email : secretariat@cadec-corsabail.fr

[Jovan Likja]

Dear Sir,

We represent Regional Council of Durres, that is Public Authority in Albania.
We see of great interest your draft idea and would like to share our experiences in some of the items of your project.
We have considerable experience in Interreg project, IPA CBC Programs, etc.

We look forward in your reply,

Best regards

Jovan Likja
Regional Council Durres
Head of Project Office
++355 692138942
jovan.likja@qarkudurres.gov.al
jlikja@yahoo.com

[mostra nazionale dei vini, National Wine’s show]

dear all, we would likw take a part in your project. We are The National Wine’s Show, active for over 50 years in promoting the wine sector, organizes Wine Competitions National and Regional and is also the headquarters of the Agricultural Technical Services of the Province of Venice and the Consortium for DOC wines of Lison-Pramaggiore.
The National Wine Show Sca., Carries out programs to promote the wines at the National, Regional and Local. Some initiatives include:
The National Wine Competitions and Campionaria National Wine’s Show taking place in March and April of each year.
The Enoteca Regionale del Veneto open throughout the summer and autumn.
The International Food and Wine Competition “Fogher d’Oro” which takes place in the first week of December.
There are also contests for the Interregional Montasio Cheese and Honey and the Selection of veneto’s wine.
The programs that the National Wine Show realizes, are carried out with the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Veneto Region, the Province and the Chamber of Commerce of Venice, the municipalities and APT and Pro Loco of Eastern Veneto.
We hope you are interesting about our partecipation.
Best regards.
Giovanna Martellozzo
Mostra dei vini di Pramaggiore

[Stratos VougioukasParticipant]

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are very interested in participating in your proposal and we have the experience in having implemented a similar project called AGRISLES (http://www.agrisles.eu/) with significant results and great success for innovation in agricultural areas in Mediterranean. We would like to continue the work done so far and explore new possibilities and new models.
Please contact us if you are interested and we would be happy to contribute with our experience in the area.

Stratos Vougioukas
Head of European projects
________________________________________
Regional Development Funds of North Aegean
3 Arg. Eftalioti Road
Mytilene –Postcode 81-100
Τel. +3022510-37737
Fax. +302251-27589
Email. svoug@ptaba.gr
url. http://www.ptaba.gr

[AdrianParticipant]

Dear Sir/Madam,

The project team of the Polytechnic University of Tirana (PUT) appreciated the proposal and is very interested in participating in it.
With agriculture being claimed a driving sector of Albania’s Economy a lot of attention has been put on the development of the sector yet distant from substantial innovative approach and models.
Different from other public Universities in Albania we have built our own project team that operates as project development catalyst to evaluate and meet sector needs in Albania. With our strong local network across Albania and thanks to a consortium with other partners we are ideally placed to facilitate development projects. Polytechnic University of Tirana employs 700 full-time tenure-track professors therefore it has the experience, capacities and systems to undertake projects using a multi stakeholders approach. Polytechnic University of Tirana’s clients include central and local government, private investors, local and regional level organisations and certainly international organisations such as UNFCCC, GIZ, USAID, Soros Foundation, European Commission, etc.

We would be happy if our participation and contribution in the project will be considered.

Adrian NACO
Head of Project Team
ALBANIA, Nuts III,
Address: Sheshi “Nene Tereza”, No4, Tirana
Tel & Fax: 00355 4 2257294
Mob.: +355 692082001
Web: http//:www.upt.al
Email: nacoad@yahoo.com & malkajpartizan@yahoo.com

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