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The development of this Financial Strategy for Water responds to the mandate by the Ministers of the Union for the Mediterranean members in charge of Water and other Heads of Delegation at their meeting in Malta on the 27th of April 2017. Ministers called for a Union for the Mediterranean Water Agenda to enhance regionalإقرأ المزيد

This event has been postponed. The IFIs Urban Projects Committee is to be held at the Headquarters of the UfM in Barcelona on 2 April 2020. The meeting  will bring together key partners of the UfM region, IFIs and donors, with the objective of exchanging views on the financial scheme of the labelled and future projects.إقرأ المزيد

This event has been postponed. The UfM Regional Platform Meeting on Sustainable Urban Development will discuss the operational steps to be taken to implement the UfM Urban Agenda, fostering innovative and sustainable solutions, promoting better knowledge and best practices on common urban development priorities, and identifying new projects that would be replicated in the region.إقرأ المزيد

25 February 2020. The First UfM Ad-Hoc SOM (Senior Officials Meeting) on Blue Economy will be held in Brussels on 25 February 2020. The objective of this gathering is to continue advancing on the identification of the main priorities in the region in order to strengthen the dialogue and the cooperation in the field of Blueإقرأ المزيد

  أعيدت السلحفاتين أوراجانو (Uragano) وتمبستا (Tempesta) – وتعني أسمائهما باللغة الإيطالية “الإعصار” و”العاصفة”- بأمان إلى البحر المتوسط بعد أسابيع من تقديم الرعاية لهما في مركز الاستشفاء بمدينة مانفريدونيا. أُطلِقَ سراح السلحفاتين البحريتين ضخمتا الرأس، واللتان وقعتا ضحية الصيد العرضي، قبل الدورة التدريبية لمشروع COMMON   (شبكة إدارة ورصد المناطق الساحليّة لمعالجة النّفايات البحريّة في المتوسّطإقرأ المزيد

Drought is considered one of the most far-reaching natural disasters, bringing short and long-term economic and social losses to millions of people worldwide. Many countries across the globe that soon may face the impacts of intense drought still lack a comprehensive plan of action at the first signs of drought. Drought and water scarcity -interconnectedإقرأ المزيد

This document provides an overview of the various practices of Maritime Clusters being promoted to foster the Blue Economy across the Mediterranean region. Maritime Clusters are in fact important policy tools to support sustainable growth and jobs across the Mediterranean. They do so by promoting the uptake of innovation, knowledge, skills as well as accessإقرأ المزيد

The resolution adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) on 15 March 2019, “invites all Member States and relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, to design and implement public policies, plans and programmes that support education and raise awareness of the importance of sustainable consumption, sustainable lifestyles and sustainable consumer behaviour, and those that develop relatedإقرأ المزيد

Brussels, 20 November 2019. The 6th meeting of the Working Group on the Blue Economy (BE WG) will take place at the Centre des Conferences Albert Borschette (CCAB) in Brussels on 20 November 2019. The Working Group is an integral part of the UfM Forum on Blue Economy, which is one of the deliverables of the UfMإقرأ المزيد

14 November  2019, Barcelona. The Joint Plastic Busters workshop on creating synergies for consolidating the fight against marine litter in the Mediterranean will take place in Barcelona on 14 Barcelona 2019. The meeting aims to provide a concrete opportunity to the Interreg Med Plastic Busters MPAs project and the ENI CBC Med COMMON project, toإقرأ المزيد