On 29 January, the AMI Gastronomie project, promoted and financed by the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion Tourism Commission, launched. This promotes school exchanges between training centers specialized in gastronomy, hospitality and tourism in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Occitania Region. This new initiative under the Balearic Presidency of the Euroregion grants a Euroregional grant of €45,000 for this project that values gastronomy as a key piece for sustainable, quality tourism development rooted in a rich and shared culture.
The training centers that will participate this year in educational and practical exchanges and that will each receive a grant of €15,000 are:
These centers will develop a series of actions to foster strong Euroregional cooperation and unique cultural exchange. Some of these include specialized training with guest chefs, thematic cooking workshops, the recovery of traditional techniques, gastronomic proposals with local products, exchanges of good practices such as circular or zero waste gastronomy and the organization of gastronomic events.
Each center will participate in the triple commitment: welcoming students and/or teachers from other regions, sending them to other centers and organizing a gastronomic event in their territory open to the public during 2026 and 2027, which will be announced very soon.
The project offers students the opportunity to participate in real projects with a Euroregional and European dimension, while allowing them to develop key skills such as project management, Euroregional cooperation and knowledge exchange. Through this experience, the Euroregion and its Tourism Commission are committed to future tourism professionals, who will contribute to strengthening a shared cultural identity and promoting a sustainable tourism model, rooted in the territory and attractive on an international scale.
TERRA-MED, the new Interregional PhD Programme coordinated by the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean, has secured €4 million in EU funding under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND programme TERRA-MED: An Interregional PhD Programme for Advancing Sustainability and Climate Resilience in Occitania, [...]
