Geneva – Start date: 22.11.2012 UfMS Deputy Secretary General for Transport and Urban Development, Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, and Mr. Martin Marmy, Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on the 22nd November 2012, in Geneva. The IRU is the international road transport organization which encompasses 170إقرأ المزيد
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The Initiative, co-sponsored by the UfM, aims to create a pipeline of 10 to 15 innovative projects on Sustainable Urban Development in the Southern Mediterranean region, with a financial framework of 5 million Euros.
Barcelona – Start date: 23.10.2012 The IV UfM Working Group on Transport and Urban Development Division will hold a meeting that will cover the following subjects: – Presentation of the state of play of the labeled projects, the projects under study and the project ideas in the Transport sector. – The activities in the Transport sectorإقرأ المزيد
Discussions focused on the developments made on the four components of the Strategy since the second meeting, held in Barcelona last 25 May 2012. The work is advancing successfully towards the completion of the Strategy.
The award rewards the joint activity of the UfM, the Center for Transport Studies of the Western Mediterranean (CETMO) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED) to raise awareness of the project and build the project framework.
The six-year-term project will focus during the first phase on the training activities at the intermodal platforms in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, which will be in operation in 2015, and it will result in a more competitive and efficient network of Euro-Mediterranean logistic platforms.
Further working meetings will be held in the coming months between the UfM Secretariat and German ministries, governmental agencies, think tanks as well as the private sector.
The Tunisian Government is currently working on a new renewable energy strategy and announced a precise target to achieve: 30 % of renewable energy in the electricity mix by 2030.
This cooperation is enshrined in the overall approach of the Mediterranean Solar Plan, promoted by the UFM.
Two chapters of the Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP) were discussed in the margins of the Sustainable Energy Week.
