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30 October 2025

Save the Date – AII Round Table on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum - 18 November, Skopje

Under the framework of the Adriatic–Ionian Initiative (AII) Chairmanship of North Macedonia , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of the...
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30 October 2025

First AII Committee of Senior Officials under the Chairmanship of North Macedonia - 21 October 2025, Skopje

The first meeting of the AII Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) under the Chairmanship of the Republic of North Macedonia took place in Skopje on 21 October...
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2 October 2025

Sustainable and Innovative Food Systems: The Mediterranean Diet as a Tool for Tourism and Local Development in EUSAIR Communities - 29–30 September 2025, Bari

On 29–30 September 2025, the CIHEAM Bari Campus hosted the international workshop “Sustainable and Innovative Food Systems: The Mediterranean Diet as a Tool...
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1 October 2025

XXV General Assembly of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities: Conference on Sustainability, Blue Economy and Culture - 27 September 2025, Pescara

In the framework of the XXV General Assembly of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities (FAIC), the international conference “The Development of the...
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25 September 2025

AII Foreign Ministers’ Informal Working Breakfast on the margins of the 80th UN General Assembly - 22 September, New York

On September 22 nd , on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the first meeting of the Ministers of Foreign...
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18 September 2025

XIX Adriatic Mediterranean Festival - Ancona, 25-30 August 2025

The XIX edition of the Adriatic Mediterranean Festival took place in Ancona from August 25 to 30, 2025 , once again bringing to the city a rich programme of...
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16 September 2025

Ambassador Pigliapoco at the TVET Alliance Summit 2025 – Ancona, 9 July 2025

On 9–10 July 2025, Ambassador Fabio Pigliapoco, Head of the AII Permanent Secretariat, took part in the TVET Alliance Summit 2025 , organised in Ancona by the...
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16 September 2025

25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANCONA DECLARATION - Ancona, 27 June 2025

The historic Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona hosted on June 27 th , 2025 the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Ancona Declaration , the foundational...
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14 July 2025

Enhancing Road and Rail Connectivity in the Adriatic-Ionian Region - 18 June 2025, Portorož

The Forum of the Adriatic and Ionian Chambers of Commerce (Forum AIC), in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Primorska, the Chamber of Commerce of...
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Chairmanship

NORTH MACEDONIA
JUNE 2025
MAY 2026

WELCOME BY THE
SECRETARY GENERAL

Amb. Giovanni Castellaneta is the Secretary General of the Adriatic and Ionian Initiative, he was appointed to such position by the AII Ministers of Foreign Affairs gathered in the Adriatic and Ionian Council in Ioannina (11 May 2017) under the Hellenic Chairmanship.
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CULTURE

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CULTURE

BLUE GROWTH / MARITIME COOPERATION

BLUE GROWTH / MARITIME COOPERATION

TRANSPORTS AND ENERGY CONNECTIONS

TRANSPORTS AND ENERGY CONNECTIONS

PARLIAMENTARY DIMENSION

PARLIAMENTARY DIMENSION

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL PROTECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL PROTECTION

INTER-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION

INTER-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION

Articles

On October 1, 2024, Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta, Secretary General of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative (AII), participated in the Kick-off Conference of the Hellenic Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR) and AII, held in Corfu, Greece.

On September 24th in Bari (Italy) a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Permanent Secretariat of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative (AII-PS) and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) Bari establishing a collaboration aimed at strengthening dialogue and cohesion between the Adriatic-Ionian region, in line with the European integration process.

The CE.S.MA, Marche Study Center, named after the late and famous luminary of medicine "Giuseppe Giunchi", founded in 1983, pursues the aim of enhancing the knowledge and image of the citizens of the Marche Region to whom, in Italy and around the world, particular merits have been recognized.

At the same time, the Center also intends to pay grateful recognition to those citizens from outside the Marche region who have made an intense commitment through their activities to the promotion and valorisation of the Marche region, inspired by the principles of human solidarity and cultural, scientific and economic promotion. To this end it has established the honorific distinction of "Marchigiano ad Honorem".

The ceremony took place on May 30, 2024 at the Sala Capitolare of the Senate of the Italian Republic, Piazza della Minerva, Rome. The Marchigiano ad Honorem prize (17th edition) was awarded to the Italian Ambassador and Secretary General of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative Giovanni Castellaneta.

The awards ceremony was opened by institutional greetings from Senator Antonio De Poli, Commissioner of the Senate of the Republic (video message), followed by speeches of the Honorary President of the Ce.S.Ma H.E. Giorgio Girelli, Ambassador of the Republic of San Marino, of the journalist Rosanna Vaudetti and of the director of the CE.S.MA Pina Gentili.

 

The 18th Coordination Meeting of Regional Organisations hosted by the Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat in Trieste on 17 September 2024 witnessed the presence of high-level representatives from the Secretariats of regional organizations, such as the Adriatic Ionian Initiative, the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, and the Regional Cooperation Council. Special guests were the European Commission, the Regional School of Public Administration, and the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative.

The 5th International Congress on Applied Ichthyology, Oceanography, and Aquatic Environment (HydroMediT 2024) will take place in Mytilene (Greece), at the hospitable island of Lesvos, from the 30th of May to the 2nd of June 2024, in the premises of the University of the Aegean. The event is organized within the framework of the AII Greek Chairmanship.

  1. Adriatic Ionian Council / EUSAIR Ministerial Meeting - Šibenik, 15 May 2024
  2. SIBENIK DECLARATION - ADRIATIC IONIAN COUNCIL / EUSAIR MINISTERIAL MEETING - 15MAY 2024
  3. AII Round Table on Addressing Transportation Challenges in the Adriatic-Ionian Region - Sibenik, 15 May 2024
  4. AII Round Table on “Preservation and Promotion of the Mediterranean Diet in the Adriatic and Ionian Region" - Sibenik, 15 May 2024