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• 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

“Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights and human dignity. Further to preventing women from a full participation in the society, violence has an impact and a cost which extend to the family, to children and to the whole society”, said Senior Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Delphine Borione during theRead more

High unemployment rates have persisted in the Middle East and North Africa for decades, averaging around 12% for non-oil exporting countries. Youth aged 15-25 constitute between 40% and 60% of the region’s unemployed population. In fact, the youth unemployment rate in the Middle East and North Africa is among the highest of all world regions,Read more

High unemployment rates have persisted in the Middle East and North Africa for decades, averaging around 12% for non-oil exporting countries. Youth aged 15-25 constitute between 40% and 60% of the region’s unemployed population. In fact, the youth unemployment rate in the Middle East and North Africa is among the highest of all world regions,Read more

Last October 2015 the European Investment Bank (EIB) hosted the 15th Conference of the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP) which explored the links between private sector finance, entrepreneurship and job creation. And within this analysis it highlighted that, considering that the Mediterranean region will see a large number of new entrants into theRead more