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10 October, 2014 With the aim to foster employment opportunities, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will be launching Phase I[1] of the project “Skills for Success: Employability Skills for Women”. This UfM project seeks to support 450 young women and girls from Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia in acquiring the tools,Read more

With the aim to foster employment opportunities, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will be organising on 10 October, in Beirut, the launching of the  “Skills for Success: Employability Skills for Women” project’s first phase. This UfM-labelled project is promoted by AMIDEAST and seeks to support 450 young women and girls from Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt andRead more

• The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Fathallah Sijilmassi, and the Secretary General of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), Cosimo Lacirignola, signed a cooperation agreement to undertake joint initiatives benefitting higher education and food security in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

• The UfM-CIHEAM project “Higher Education on Food Security & Rural Development” was officially launched.

• Within the frame of this project, 20 scholarships have been allocated to Southern Mediterranean female students in the four CIHEAM institutes for the 2014-2015 academic year.

The INSA Euro-Méditerranée officially came into being on Monday 22 September as part of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez (UEMF). This project created the first Euro-Mediterranean establishment for engineer training.

The Union for the Mediterranean and UN Women signed a partnership agreement to work closer on the road to Beijing +20, and undertake joint initiatives to effectively contribute towards women’s socio-economic empowerment.

On 22 September, the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes will launch the first two Master Programmes on Renewable Energies and Environmental Engineering accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education of Morocco. The University will also launch the “INSA-Euro-Méditerranée’’ Engineering School, co-developed in partnership with INSA Group -France and a consortium of Universities from Morocco, Spain, ItalyRead more

The selection of young female participants to the training courses concluded in August, 2014. The programmes began this month and will run until the end of December.

• The UfM Secretariat presented its cooperation projects in higher education and research and invited universities from Barcelona to actively participate in UfM initiatives in the Euro-Med region.

• An official welcome address was given by the Honorable Conseller of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Generalitat de Catalunya, Andreu Mas-Colell, and the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Fathallah Sijilmassi.

ERANETMED pre-announces first joint call for transnational research projects. The objective is to develop joint research and enhance new innovative approaches and technologies in the Mediterranean Region. The scope of the call includes renewable energies and energy efficiency, water resources management or a combination of water and energy issues in the same project

“Young Women as Job Creators” provides talented young women finishing university with training and assistance in order to make them become successful businesswomen. The project’s second phase is to be implemented in additional countries and universities with enriched content.