The private actors As desired by the Union for the Mediterranean, the privileged participation of the private sector can be well developed in this project. In the first European project BEACHMED, one of the partners was the EUDA (European Dredging Association www.european-dredging.info) an association that gathers the most important European dredging companies, and which financed a feasibility study about the solutions proposed and the existing technologies in the dredging industry. Moreover, among the key initiatives recognised by the UpM – such as long-term Civil Defence -, it is possible to define a precise role for private actors that, in this case, represent an essential partner if we want to fine-tune the technologies used to exploit the resources individuated. As we have already seen before, this sector is willing to finance a project enabling it to know an important potential market in the Mediterranean, which can offer important employment opportunities in the maritime sector. Once more then, we have to go along a path we have already travelled in the course of other experiences and whose success probability is well evident and sure.

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