10 April 2019, Montpellier. In order to follow up on the collaboration that was initiated on the occasion of the first joint event in Barcelona on 30-31 October 2018, the two projects are organising a second joint event on 9-10 April 2019, in the premises of the Département de l’Hérault (Montpellier, France). CO-EVOLVE is an ongoingLire la suite
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1-5 April 2019, Lebanon. The UfM side-event to the Sixth Mediterranean Forest Week will take place in Lebanon on 1-5 April 2019 and will be the opportunity to launch the“Scaling up forest and landscape restoration in order to restore biodiversity and promote joint mitigation and adaptation approaches in the Mediterranean”, labelled by the UfM. This FAOLire la suite
25 March 2019, Brussels. The fifth meeting of the Working Group on the Blue Economy (BE WG) will take place at the Centre des Conferences Albert Borschette (CCAB) in Brussels on 25 March 2019. BE WG is an integral part of the UfM Forum on Blue Economy, which is one of the deliverables of the UfMLire la suite
La région méditerranéenne compte plus de 25 millions d’hectares de forêts et environ 50 millions d’hectares de terres boisées. Les zones forestières protégées couvrent 9 millions d’hectares, soit 4,3% de la superficie totale de la région. L’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM) et l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation (FAO) lancent un projet visant à restaurerLire la suite
28 February-1 March 2019, Paris. The Second Meeting of the UfM Thematic Working Group on Affordable and Sustainable Housing is hosted in Paris by the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion of the French Republic. This Thematic Working Group assists the UfM Regional Platform on sustainable urban development in preparing the groundwork for the implementation of theLire la suite
Ensuring Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine ecosystems and biodiversity is a key Mediterranean priority, underpinned by regional frameworks such as the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Environment and Climate Change and the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean. For EU marine waters, the Marine StrategyLire la suite
13 December 2018, Rome, Italy. The UfM will organize a side event at the Forum on Fisheries Science in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea(Fish Forum 2018) that will take place on 10-14 December 2018 at the FAO Headquarters in Roma. The side event will promote, through a focus on the BLUEMED Initiative, the enhanced coordinationLire la suite
GTMO 5+5 Ministers welcomed the leading role of the UfM in the promotion of regional cooperation, dialogue and the implementation of projects contributing to regional development, stability and integration 12 December 2018, Nouakchott. In the framework of the Ninth Conference of Group of Transport Ministers of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO 5+5) held in Nouakchott (Mauritania) onLire la suite
11-12 December 2018, Nouakchott, Mauritania. The Group of Transport Ministers of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO 5+5) Ministerial Conference will take place in Mauritania on 11-12 December 2018. The UfM Secretariat works in close collaboration with GTMO 5+5 and, among other issues, the Conference will cover the common work carried out on concrete transport projects. For more informationLire la suite
12 December 2018, Sfax, Tunisia. The TransLogMED Conference will take place in Tunisia on 12 December 2018. TransLogMED project t was launched at the first Mediterranean Conference on Maritime Transport and Logistics, held on 8-9 May 2018. in Ismailia (Egypt). Building upon and complementing the UfM-labelled project LOGISMED Training Activities (LOGISMED-TA), TransLogMED’s capacity building activities will address the whole logistics chain andLire la suite
