First working meeting of the PPRD Med II consortium
24 November 2026, Barcelona – The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) will host the first working meeting of the prospective consortium for PPRD Med II (Prevention, Preparedness and Response to natural and man-made Disasters in the Mediterranean), a future EU-funded programme aimed at strengthening regional cooperation in civil protection and disaster risk management.
Led by Expertise France, the prospective consortium will bring together the UfM, Entente Valabre (France), Pau Costa Foundation (Spain), CERIDES and the Cyprus Regional Aerial Firefighting Station (CRAFS), both based in Cyprus.
Scheduled to begin in December 2026, the three-year programme will have a planned budget of €7 million and will support the implementation of the UfM Civil Protection Action Plan 2025–2030, endorsed by all 43 UfM Member States.
The programme will build on the priorities identified by the three UfM Civil Protection Working Groups on Prevention, Preparedness and Response, co-chaired respectively by Algeria and France, Palestine and Syria, and Cyprus and Lebanon. These priorities will inform future technical cooperation, capacity-building activities and exchanges among participating countries.
Particular attention will be given to strengthening regional cooperation on wildfires, building on the Euro-Mediterranean wildfire workshops co-organised by the UfM and supporting the development of CRAFS, which held its first regional activities in Paphos in September 2026.
The meeting will provide an opportunity for prospective consortium partners to discuss the programme’s priorities, planned activities and coordination arrangements. Through its regional convening role, the UfM will help ensure that the programme responds to participating countries’ needs and contributes to sustained civil protection cooperation across the Mediterranean.
