20 October 2016, Tunis, Tunisia.Read more
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University of Sapienza, Rome, 20-21 October 2016. The UfM Secretariat will attend the 25th Anniversary of UNIMED, which will coincide with its General Assembly, on 20-21 October 2016 in Rome at the University of Sapienza. The UNIMED General Assembly will provide a great opportunity for the UfM Secretariat to reaffirm its close relationship with theRead more
• Le secrétariat général de l’Union pour la Méditerranée et le promoteur de projet Ideaborn ont rassemblé à l’Institut Français de Tunis divers acteurs institutionnels et de terrain engagés pour la promotion de l’égalité femme homme à travers l’éducation.
• Ils ont ainsi pu présenter les premiers résultats du projet “former des citoyens responsables” et échanger sur les pratiques exemplaires de lutte contre la violence et la promotion de valeurs d’égalité mises en place dans la région.
UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 18 October 2016. For further information please contact the Higher Education and Research division: education@ufmsecretariat.orgRead more
• High-level participants stressed the necessity of a common vision and a regional framework to find concrete solutions to better mobilise the full potential of women.
• All the 250 participants demonstrated the essential contribution of women to greater sustainable development, creating job opportunities, effective fight against extremism and radicalisation, and promotion of stability in the region.
• Best practices and concrete initiatives were proposed. The UfM Secretariat and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, launched the 2nd phase of a €4.5M project to support women-led investments and businesses in the Southern Mediterranean region.
The Euro-Mediterranean region is nowadays facing an intensification of tensions as well as complex and pressing crisis which threaten its stability and fragilise the “living together”. In view of this situation, the region needs to mobilise all its dynamic forces. Women in the region are still too absent in decision-making, too few in formal jobs,Read more
About the conference The UfM Secretariat organizes the “Third UfM High-level Conference: Women for the Mediterranean, driving force for stability and development” on 10-11 October 2016 in Barcelona. Following the 2014 and 2015 editions and in the perspective of the Fourth UfM Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society which will take placeRead more
UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 10 October 2016.Read more
• The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Groupe interacadémique pour le développement (GID) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration in the areas of higher education, research and youth employment.
• Fostering educational, training and scientific cooperation is key to effectively advance integration, stability and human development in the Mediterranean.
Marseille, 29 September 2016. On the occasion of its 350th anniversary, the French Academie des Sciences in partnership with the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and under the auspices of the Groupe Interacadémique pour le Développement (GID) holds an international science and society event on “Skills and Knowledge in action for co-development inRead more
