This video clip brings snippets of Mara-Mediterra’s Second Progress Meeting which took place in Malta and was hosted by IRMCo.

The clip brings glimpses of the technical, yet highly animated discussions during the first and also the third and final day of the meeting. Seated in a circle, Anna Spiteri, IRMCo’s Managing Director, invited everyone to a role-playing exercise on drawing up a governance framework for the case studies.

The evening reception hosted by IRMCo on the first day was joined by the ambassador of Turkey and the Maltese ambassadors to Algeria and Lebanon. Nicole Spiteri, Anna’s niece livened up the evening with an inspiring set of music pieces on the flute.

A field excursion on the second day of the meeting started off with a display of falconry above the Blue Grotto, a spectacular natural arch. The next stop was at the Hagar Qim and Mnadjra temples, Malta’s prehistoric temple sites (3500 BC) which to date remain the oldest known free-standing structures in the world. Following lunch at Ghar Lapsi, the participants were welcomed at the Agricultural Experimental Research Centre in Buskett, one of Malta’s woodlands. Further technical questions and discussions followed at Malta’s first commercial aquaponics installation, Ta’ Kampanjol. The day ended with a traditional dinner at Mdina, the Silent City.

The clip was produced by Khoder Khalil, member of the Lebanese University team in the Mara-Mediterra partnership.