SWITCHMED CONNECT 2021: WATCH THE FIRST EDITION OF PHASE II OF THE SWITCHMED PROGRAMME FLAGSHIP EVENT
The 2021 edition of the SwitchMed Connect took place online on the 19th and 20th of October. It was the first edition of Phase II (2019-2023) of the SwitchMed programme.
SwitchMed Connect is the flagship event of the SwitchMed programme. The Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP/RAC) manages the Networking Facility of the SwitchMed programme, and is in charge of organizing this gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders aiming to build synergies, exchange knowledge and scale up eco and social innovations, namely the SwitchMed Connect. It hosts leading start-ups and entrepreneurs, industry agents, initiatives, change agents, policy and financial institutions working on applications of productive, circular and sharing economies in the Mediterranean. At these regional events, both macro and micro level organisations come together for cross-country exchanges, knowledge sharing and the elaboration of solutions to challenges for scaling up eco-innovative business models.
In the first phase of the SwitchMed programme (2013-2018), three editions of the SwitchMed Connect were organized, namely in 2015, 2016 and 2018, each with more than 400 participants from diverse types of organisations. SwitchMed Steering Committee decided to postpone the 2020 edition of the SwitchMed Connect, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, the role of the 2021 edition was to introduce the new activities and partners of the programme.
If you did not have the chance to participate in the event when it was taking place, you can still watch the videos of the different public conferences organized on Wednesday 20 October and discover what Phase II of the SwitchMed programme is about thanks to this dedicated playlist.