The Associazione Città della Terra Cruda collaborated with the AREA Sardegna Agency to draft the MED TERRA project for participation in the Interreg Next MED call for proposals.
The project partnership is composed as follows:
| Institution | Country | Region |
| AREA – Regional Housing Agency | Italy | Sardinia |
| UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI | Italy | Sardinia |
| Poliko | Greece | Crete |
| Technical University of Chania | Greece | Crete |
| Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain | Valencian Community |
| Regional Association of Eco-construction of the South-West | France | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Active Voice Association – Beirut | Lebanon | Beirut |
| ARCS TUNISIA – Tunis | Tunisia | Tunis |
| Municipality of Bani Obeid | Jordan | Northern Jordan |
| Yarmouk University | Jordan | Amman |
| Lebanese University | Lebanon | Beirut |
MED TERRA aims to provide significant, climate-friendly, and environment-oriented solutions that have the potential to contribute to the green transition in the Mediterranean because it:
- will carry out a comprehensive assessment of the state of the art of a niche in the construction sector that has enormous potential to reduce CO2 emissions, replace the use of carbon-intensive materials (e.g., cement), and prevent waste production;
- will carry out demonstration works in 7 countries to test shared knowledge and skills on adobe buildings, monitoring the results according to an updated scientific approach, training companies, and involving local communities;
- will collect and evaluate the overall results of the project, producing a wide range of outputs (technical and regulatory guidelines, design and planning tools, ideas for promoting the supply chain) capable of supporting a wider use of techniques related to adobe, with significant energy savings compared to current standards.
- Through all these activities, it will promote appropriate follow-up and cooperation between different entities across the two shores of the Mediterranean.
