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January 5, 2026

Tullio Scovazzi

In 2025, Tullio Scovazzi, retired Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, published several scholarly articles in different areas of international law. In the same year, he co-edited the Italian-language volume Il patrimonio culturale immateriale: aspetti transdisciplinari e giuridici (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2025), which examines the concept of intangible cultural heritage from both legal and transdisciplinary perspectives and discusses the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, including developments in Italy. During the year, he also presented reports at thirteen academic conferences held in Italy, France, Malta and Qatar.

 

Evangelos Raftopoulos

Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, as the designer and Academic Director of the online UNEP/MAP–MEPIELAN Training School on Sustainable Marine Governance in the Mediterranean – Environmental Governance and Sustainability (13 October – 13 November 2025), successfully conducted the five-week programme, and delivered, as part of the programme, two lectures on compliance under the Barcelona Convention system and the implementation of Aarhus Convention principles in international decision-making and the expansion of participatory environmental democracy. In November 2025, he published his latest book, Environmental Democracy and the Horizontality of International Law – The Mediterranean Accession to the Aarhus Convention, with Edward Elgar Publishing. In May and July 2025, Professor Raftopoulos visited Downing College, Cambridge, for an academic stay. During this period, he attended the Annual Event of the 1749 Society of Downing College and, as an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, participated in the election of the University’s new Chancellor.

 

Georgios Raftopoulos

In 2025, Georgios Raftopoulos continued his work as an expert at GIZ, supporting the implementation of EU climate policies in Greece, with a focus on the development of the Social Climate Plan and the implementation of the EU Emissions Trading System and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism under the Clima+ project. Throughout the year, he presented reports at nine international conferences in Greece, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, and Norway, as well as at two webinars, while also supporting the Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy at the meetings of the Special Group on Maritime Emissions within the framework of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). He also served as a moderator at the UNEP/MAP–MEPIELAN Training School on Sustainable Marine Governance in the Mediterranean, and contributed to the book by Evangelos Raftopoulos, Environmental Democracy and the Horizontality of International Law – The Mediterranean Accession to the Aarhus Convention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025).

 

Konstantinos Tsimonis

In 2025, Konstantinos Tsimonis secured funding from the Independent Social Research Foundation for a project on the Chinese communist party’s influence in Europe and published on Taiwan’s relations with Greece and Cyprus and Cyprus–Taiwan relations, and on Greece’s differentiated approach to EU–China relations.  In the same year, he published the co-edited volume Corruption and Anti-Corruption Upside Down: New Perspectives from the Global South by Palgrave.

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MEPIELAN Centre is an international research, training and educational centre established by Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos at the Panteion University of Athens in 2008.

Before its establishment as a University Centre, MEPIELAN operated as a successful international research, training and informational programme (2002-2007) under the scientific direction of Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos and the aegis of the Panteion University of Athens, supported by the Mediterranean Action Plan/UNEP and the Greek Ministry of the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works.

MEPIELAN Centre is an accredited UNEP/MAP PARTNER (since 2013), a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) (since 2016), and a Member of the Steering Committee of the MCSD (since 2019).

On 22 May 2022, MEPIELAN Centre proceeded to the development of MEPIELAN as a Non- Profit Civil Organization (INGO) for the more effective and efficient advancement of its Goals and Missions and furtherance of its activities. MEPIELAN Centre as a Non- Profit Civil Organization (INGO) is registered in Greek Law (Hellenic Business Registry, Reg. No. 16477300100) in accordance with Laws 4072/2012 & 4919/2022 as applicable

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