APICE (Common Mediterranean strategy and local practical Actions for the mitigation of Port, Industries and Cities Emissions) is a project financed by the European program for territorial Cooperation MED 2007/2013, which kicked off in July 2010 and will conclude December 2011. It is developed in 5 pilot areas of 4 Med Countries and involves the territories of Venice, Marseille, Thessaloniki, Genoa and Barcelona.
The project involves many Universities and research agencies: ARPA Veneto for Venice (leading partner); Universities of Aristotle and Western Macedonia for Thessaloniki; University of Genoa; University of Provence for Marseille; CSIC for Barcelona. There are also institutional bodies involved: the Regions of Veneto and Central Macedonia, the Province of Genoa, the Ports of Marseille and EUCC of Barcelona.
Thanks to the comparison of the data acquired in the five Pilot Areas the objective is to develop a common and highly replicable model for a building intervention scenario with concrete outputs.

The project's conclusions will be delivered to policymakers to help integrate existing urban master plans and port investments in order to implement the sustainable development of ports. In addition, they will be used to support eco-friendly changes in shipping practices and to improve the measures for air pollution mitigation adopted by the involved ports.

The final goal is to push port authorities and stakeholders to concretely contribute through voluntary agreements, in the medium term, to reducing emissions and improve the sustainability of the harbors with more attention to the environment.