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Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, 14 April 2016 Organised by the Office of Economic Cooperation for Mediterranean and Middle East, the French Development Agency and the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, with the support of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, a Conference on Youth Employability in the Mediterranean will take place on 14th April 2016 inRead more

• In order to stimulate job creation and foster youth employability in the region, urgent measures need to be taken such as increasing labour demand, improving policies for demand-supply matching and promoting the transition from informal to formal employment, among others.

• Fostering youth employment is a key priority for the UfM as it is essential for regional human development, stability and integration. Ministers of Employment from the 43 UfM member States will meet at the 3rd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Employment and Labour on 26 September 2016.

• The UfM Secretariat, ANIMA, the cooperation platform for economic development in the Mediterranean; and iesMed, the cooperative platform to boost the Mediterranean Social Economy are organising a seminar in Barcelona, on 14 and 15 March 2016, about inclusive investment in the Mediterranean.
• The seminar will be based around the launch of two UfM projects – EDILE and EMIPO – two Euro-Mediterranean initiatives aimed at developing investments that contribute to inclusive growth in the Mediterranean.

• HOMERe stakeholders sign a cooperation charter and adopt action plan for 2016-2017 to improve employability prospects of talented postgraduates through internship mobility experiences in transnational companies in the Mediterranean.

• Labelled under the Mediterranean Initiative for Jobs (Med4Jobs), the project will be implemented during this pilot phase in nine Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia.

Villa Méditerranée (Marseille), 2 March 2016 The objective of the HOMERe project, labelled by the UfM in the framework of the Med4Jobs Initiative, is to improve the competencies and employability prospects of talented postgraduates through internship mobility experiences in transnational companies in the Mediterranean. During their meeting, the members of the euro-mediterranean consortium will take stockRead more

HOMERe stakeholders have signed a cooperation charter and adopted an action plan for 2016-2017 to improve the employability prospects of talented postgraduates through internship mobility experiences in transnational companies in the Mediterranean.

Labelled under the Mediterranean Initiative for Jobs (Med4Jobs), the project will be implemented during this pilot phase in 9 Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia.

23 February 2016, Conference Centre “Albert Borschette”, Brussels Implementing the 2014-2016 work programme on Euro-Mediterranean industrial cooperation At the invitation of the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROWTH), of the European Commission, the UfM Secretariat will participate on the 23rd of February to the meeting of the Working Party onRead more

Youth unemployment is a key major challenge for both European and Southern Mediterranean countries. It is a major issue to be addressed within the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean as it holds a very significant connection with the overall objective of regional integration in the Euro-Med region.

 18-19 January 2016. Centre de Conférences Ministériel (CCM), Paris The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) has invited the UfM to participate in a seminar entitled “The Professionalisation and employability of youth in the Mediterranean: innovated approaches & exchange of views” organised by the FSP (Priority Solidarity Fund) on 18-19 January 2016.Read more

• The meeting, organised as part of the Mediterranean New Chance Network (MedNC) UfM labelled project, aims to create a Spanish network of entities in order to increase employability opportunities among young people who have dropped out of school without obtaining a diploma.