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Closed‑Door Agenda Produces Technical Policy Proposals at III Foro del Mediterráneo

Organizers sought to move expert council recommendations into implementable plans by convening more than 50 institutional leaders in private working sessions.

Overview

  • The III Foro del Mediterráneo, held June 16–18 in Barcelona, ran a parallel closed‑door 'Agenda Complementaria' that brought together over 50 institutional leaders, public officials and business executives to refine policy solutions.
  • Public affairs consultancy beBartlet organized and facilitated the private sessions, which were moderated by Albert Sáez and Jaume Rios and designed to be more technical than the Forum’s public debates.
  • Participants focused on five priority areas—housing rehabilitation to improve access, water management for climate resilience, talent attraction, sustainable mobility, and reindustrialization of the Mediterranean—and worked on concrete, implementation‑oriented proposals.
  • The Agenda Complementaria was created in response to repeated requests from eight local expert councils convened by Prensa Ibérica for direct administrative involvement to turn diagnostics into action.
  • Organizers present the closed sessions as a bidirectional listening platform that links public-stage debate and private policymaking, a model that could speed adoption of regional pacts if administrations move to implement the technical proposals.