Paris, 5 December 2015 Organised by European Commission (DG Climate Action) and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the side event ‘Mediterranean Cooperation on Climate Change: Union for the Mediterranean’ will be held on the sidelines of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, at the European Union Pavilion,Read more
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Barcelona, 24-25 November 2015 “EUROMED Invest Academy”, bringing together between 60 to 80 representatives of BSOs and territorial actors and constituted by the Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASCAME), EUROCHAMBERS, ANIMA and BusinessMED networks, will conduct a two day capacity building workshop in the Casa Llotja de Mar (Barcelona), on 24-25Read more
UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 19 November 2015 For further information please contact Samira Shaban Pina: samira.shaban@ufmsecretariat.orgRead more
Barcelona, 17 November 2015 The city of Barcelona will host the “First International Conference PPP for Cities: Fostering sustainability and innovation in cities through Public Private Partnerships”, on 17 November 2015, in the framework of the Smart City Expo World Congress. The Conference, organized by The Specialist Centre on Public Private Partnership in Smart andRead more
Brussels, 17 November 2015 The UfM Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy aims at strengthening the potential of the blue economy in the Mediterranean region, as well as improving maritime governance and achieving a conducive environment to promote jobs, innovation and knowledge-based business opportunities through the development of key maritime sectors. This regional effort is key in the wider contextRead more
SAVE THE DATE! – SwitchMed Connect will take place on 29-30 October in Barcelona SwitchMed Connect, the first annual gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders to build synergies, exchange knowledge and scale up eco and social innovations, will take place from 29 to 30 October 2015 at the Centre Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona (CCCB) in Barcelona, Spain. More thanRead more
The UfM, in partnership with the EU and other regional actors, is supporting
“SwitchMed Connect”, an event of the SwitchMed Programme, to be held on 29-30 October in Barcelona, gathering, for the first time, more than 350 stake holders from Mediterranean countries to build synergies, exchange knowledge, and scale up eco and social innovative solutions.
• The projects will directly benefit the development of sustainable urban areas in nine countries on the southern and eastern shores.
• According to the European Investment Bank, urban infrastructure in the region will require an investment of €60 billion in the next 20 years.
• The Union for the Mediterranean fosters social and urban infrastructure initiatives with a regional scope to raise strategic investments amongst the stakeholders in the region (governments, multilateral organisations and promoters).
UfM Secretariat Headquarters in Barcelona, 10 June 2015 The Third Meeting of the UPFI Project Committee will gather all the Urban Project Finance Initiative (UPFI) partners, namely, the UfM Secretariat, the European Commission, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the German KFW, the Caisse des Dépôts (CDC), the as wellRead more
Barcelona, 9 June 2015 The Urban Project Finance Initiative (UPFI) is one of the pillars of the Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy, as stated in the declaration of the First Ministerial Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on sustainable urban development held in Strasbourg on 10 November 2011. It was launched during theRead more
