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The Energy Division of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfMS) will organise the first Extended Technical Committee meeting on Tuesday 29 April in Barcelona.

The development of a wind farm in Jordan, the creation of a Mediterranean water knowledge platform, a capacity building programme aimed at promoting civic education in schools and a programme aimed at stimulating green industries and entrepreneurship are the four new projects recently labelled by the UfM.

Barcelona, 22 March 2014. The Union for the Mediterranean joins the international community in expressing the need to find global and regional solutions to address the challenges surrounding energy and water (water-energy-nexus), highlighting the interlinkage of the two sectors, and the need for more resource-efficiency, which is a particular concern also in the Mediterranean region.Read more

10 March, 2014, headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean, Barcelona Following a specific request from Ministers during the Water Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean, held in Jordan in late 2008, the Secretariat is currently supporting the development of a regional project in order to improve water knowledge at the basis of governanceRead more

Brussels, Belgium 10 December, 2013 (Thon Hotel EU) Organised by the EIB, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie, the thirteenth edition of the FEMIP Conferences will bring together 250 participants from Europe and the Mediterranean countries to discuss actively how energy efficiency can improveRead more

Warsaw, 22 November, 2013. A joint side event on ‘Stepping up climate action in the Mediterranean region – the role of the Union for the Mediterranean’ was co-organised by the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA). The event took place on the sidelines of the 19thRead more

Warsaw, 21 November 2013 at 11:00 Organised by the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG-Clima) in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the side event ‘Stepping up climate action in the Mediterranean region – the role of the Union for the Mediterranean’ will be held on the sidelines of the 19th sessionRead more

UfM Senior Officials met in Barcelona to finalize the Mediterranean Solar Master Plan and prepare the upcoming Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Energy, set to take place in December, 2013.

5 November 2013 – Barcelona The second Ad Hoc Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on Energy, organized by the European Union and The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Co-presidencies of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), will be held on Tuesday 5 November in Barcelona. This meeting will be of high importance in the Mediterranean Solar PlanRead more

Rabat, 31 October 2013. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean participated in the 4th Dii Desert Energy Conference, held in Rabat on 30-31 October, 2013. During the conference, the UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi explained the common objectives existing between the UfM Secretariat and the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) in their long-term strategies, theRead more