A series of three workshops were organized by the ENPI funded H2020 CB/MEP in partnership with UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands (September-October 2010). Focusing on Advances in Urban Wastewater Management in Coastal Areas, the specific training workshops support the Horizon 2020 initiative and its objective to de-pollute the Mediterranean Sea through developing and strengthening the capacities of professionals dealing with the management of wastewater in Mediterranean countries.
In November 2005, at the summit to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean process, the partners committed to: "endorse a feasible timetable to de-pollute the Mediterranean Sea by 2020, while providing appropriate financial resources and technical support to implement it, using the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development and exploring possible areas for co-operation in this regard with UNEP".