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Rome, 21-22 October 2015 Prof. Ilan Chet, Deputy Secretary General of the Higher Education and Research Division, will be representing the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) at the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED) General Assembly in Rome on October 21st and 22nd 2015. This year, four main topics on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in HigherRead more

• UfM participates in the UNIDO Conference on Women Economic Empowerment in EXPO Milano 2015, an event aiming at establishing a political dialogue and identifying recommendations for policy makers and share good practices and business women’s experience at the international level.

• The UfM Deputy Secretary General for Social and Civil Affairs, Delphine Borione, highlighted that “it is the right time to harness the great potential of women entrepreneurs for an inclusive and sustainable growth in the Euro-Mediterranean region.”

UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 8 October 2015 For more information please contact Júlia Trias: julia.trias@ufmsecretariat.orgRead more

Fes, 14 September 2015 The Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (UEMF) will be a unique regional centre of excellence, welcoming more than 6,000 students from across the region and offering a wide range of programmes, ranging from humanities and social sciences to engineering. The UEMF will help to promote dialogue, cultural exchange and cooperation within higherRead more

Within the framework of the MedNC project, the ISCAE (Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises) linked to the University of la Manouba, completes the first edition of the ISCAE New Chance programme. The project could also be developed in Spain through the intermediation of iesMed (Innovation et Economie sociale en Méditerranée).

As part of its women empowerment strategy, UfM has labelled a leadership project called WoMED “next generation of leaders” for 22 young women from the Southern Mediterranean, which aims to improve their leadership capacities and gender equality skills.

The project was launched at Sciences Po Paris on 1 June 2015 in the presence of Annick Girardin, Secretary of State for Development and Francophone Countries; Pascale Boistard, Secretary of State for Women’s Rights; Élisabeth Guigou, President of the National Assembly Committee for Foreign Affairs, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation and “godmother to the Class of 2015”; and Delphine Borione, Deputy Secretary General of the UfM.

Barcelona, 10 June 2015 The Union for the Mediterranean will be institutional partner of the TEDx Barcelona Women that will take place on 10 June 2015. TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, threeRead more

UfM Secretariat Headquarters in Barcelona, 28 – 29 May 2015 The “Réseau Mixité et Gouvernance” network is an informal network of women senior civil servants in the Euro-Mediterranean countries, placing emphasis on the ministries where there are least women, namely the ministries of the economy, finance, justice and the interior. The members share the objective of improving professionalRead more

The project targets young women with high potential from the Southern Mediterranean countries in order to strengthen their leadership skills through an intensive training programme on issues of gender equality.

CEED GROW: Growing and Scaling Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Social & Civil Affairs Completed Labelled projects Context and objectives The CEED GROW project aims to enhance the leadership and entrepreneurial skills of 300 small and medium-sized businesses and female entrepreneurs. In doing so, it will reduce the human capital gap and increase the number of femaleRead more