When Manar Ramadan and Ahmed Yassin co-founded their start-up Banlastic in Alexandria, Egypt, they had a clear mission in mind: to ban single-use plastic and create a more sustainable future for their community. As residents of Alexandria, a bustling coastal city that relies heavily on tourism, Manar and Yassin saw firsthand the devastating effects ofRead more
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The UfM Regional Platform on Trade and Investment convened its fourth meeting by videoconference to discuss areas of priority ahead of the 12th Ministerial Meeting of the UfM Trade Ministers in October 2023 in Spain. 19 December 2022. The Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean held today the fourth meeting of the UfMRead more
The UfM Trade and Investment Forum 2022 is the Forum’s fourth edition in four successive years, attesting to the emphasis that the UfM places on trade facilitation and investment promotion as pre-requisites of economic development and integration in the region. The Forum comes at a time when economic, political and humanitarian global disruptions are posingRead more
The 12th Ministerial Meeting of UfM Trade Ministers is due to be convened in the second half of 2023. 20 July 2022. The Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean convened today by videoconference for the third meeting of the UfM Regional Platform on Trade and Investment. They followed up on the planned workRead more
23-24 June 2022. The UfM Secretary general was invited to participate in the Tunisia Investment Forum and the ANIMA Investment Network Annual Conference held on 21-24 June 2022 in Tunis. In addition to the Forum, the ANIMA network organized a series of events in the sidelines of the Tunisia Investment Forum from 21 to 24 JuneRead more
Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network (EMGN) Economic Development and Employment Ongoing Labelled projects Context and objectives The EMGN project aims at facilitating access to finance, in particular for MSMEs, by gathering guarantee schemes active the Euro-Mediterranean region around 4 closely related actions: training, research and development, advocacy and communication and knowledge sharing. The project addresses access to financeRead more
UfM Member States met today at the level of Senior Officials to discuss the activities and projects of the Union for the Mediterranean for the second semester 2022. They exchanged on the state-of-play of the preparations for the upcoming Ministerial Meetings on Research and Innovation (27 June 2022), on Transport (3 October 2022), and onRead more
7-8 February. Building on the commitments made during the Summit of the Two Shores in 2019, the Forum des mondes méditerranéens, organised at the initiative of the President of the French Republic, will bring together civil society actors from all over the Mediterranean region to come up with concrete solutions to our shared challenges in 6 main areas:Read more
The UfM Regional Platform on Trade and Investment convened its second meeting in 2021 by videoconference. 16 December 2021. The 42 Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean convened today by videoconference for the second meeting of the UfM Regional Platform on Trade and Investment. They followed up on the planned work agreed uponRead more
Barcelona, 29 November 2021 – Climate action, economic integration and support for women and youth are some of the key areas of partnership under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today between the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). TheRead more
