“The workshop for the Training Applied in Warsaw and Katowice” on February 23, 2010 was open to the businesses. 18 Mediterranean companies (6 Algerian and 12 Moroccan) and approximately 70 Polish, Italian and French companies, as well some ministries and Polish organizations related to the sector of the building and the representatives of the embassies of Algeria, Egypt and Morocco were participating.

The Conference was inaugurated by Mr. Andrzej Arendarski - President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Mrs. Marie-Therese Duffy-Haeusler - Director of Representation of the European commission in Poland. Then Mrs. Anna Raduchowska-Brochwicz, Plenipotentiary of the Polish Minister for the Foreign Affairs in charge of the process of Barcelona: Union for the Mediterranean presented the added-value of the Union for the Mediterranean in the light of the objectives of the process of Barcelona. In this context, Mr. Denys Poulet – Chief Financial Officer of the Invest in Med shed light on the importance of the Batimed project and especially of building and infrastructure aspects which give great possibilities and an enormous potential of co-operation for the countries and companies.

The other interventions allowed participants to take note of the principles and conditions of introduction of the products and services on the single European market, to see how we can use modern materials allowing energy savings, having recourse to state-of-the-art technologies and services in the building. It was also question of the adaptation of certain technologies to the environmental requirements in the Mediterranean and European countries.