BUSINESS: 532 PRACTICES
TAP is a Transmission System Operator (TSO) and an Independent Transmission Operator (ITO). It offers capacity to shippers interested in transporting gas safely, reliably and efficiently. TAP follows national and international safety and operational standards.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) (tap-ag.gr)
TAP’s Social and Environmental Investment (SEI) programme has been developed to promote sustainable development, in consultation and cooperation with the affected communities.
The overall strategic objectives of TAP’s SEI Programme are to:
The target audience/end-beneficiaries of TAP’s SEI Programme are primarily the general public of the affected communities along the pipeline route in Western, Central and Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, and/or certain vulnerable groups, as well as several well-respected and established local CSOs/NGOs, and charitable or professional organisations.
This CSR programme was initiated in 2015 and is still under implementation. Educational projects due to their nature (subsidy of Master’s Courses) are going to end in 2024.
In order to identify local development priorities, TAP requested from local stakeholders, including civil society organisations, NGOs, Regional governors and Municipal entities/mayors, to present local and regional priorities for CSR investments. TAP worked closely with regional and local authorities in Greece throughout the process of identifying and implementing SEI projects. In the frame of the above bottom-up approach, TAP’s initiative aims at addressing actual local needs, as they are identified by local actors themselves.
TAP is committed to be a good neighbour to the communities hosting the pipeline, especially when it comes to people in need and society’s most vulnerable members. In this framework:
Social and Environmental Investment programme is implemented throughout TAP’s route i.e. 30 municipalities and 145 Local Communities; their total population is almost 1 million people.
In order to be more efficient, TAP is collaborating with external implementing partners such as the Bodossaki Foundation, the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, the Network of Social Solidarity, as well as the Construction Project Management Companies C&M Engineering and A&M Architects.
The initiative is implemented by the Social and Environmental Investment Department of TAP.
