The Fourth Senior Officials Experts Meeting took place at the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean, in Barcelona. Crucial steps have been accomplished for the conclusion of the Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy during the last few months.
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Barcelona – Start date: 22.02.2013 The “UfM Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy: 4th Senior Official Experts Meeting” hosted by the Secretariat of the UfM, will be held in Barcelona on 22 February 2013, with the participation of the Senior Official Experts (SOEs) from UfM member countries as well as numerous institutions working on urban developmentLire la suite
Barcelona – Start date: 22.02.2013 The launching workshop of the study for the “Update priority investment portfolio for protecting the Mediterranean Sea from pollution” will be held at the UfM premises in Barcelona on 22 February 2013. The workshop will bring together the coordinating partners, namely the European Commission, the UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan, EuropeanLire la suite
Geneva – Start date: 22.11.2012 UfMS Deputy Secretary General for Transport and Urban Development, Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, and Mr. Martin Marmy, Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on the 22nd November 2012, in Geneva. The IRU is the international road transport organization which encompasses 170Lire la suite
The Initiative, co-sponsored by the UfM, aims to create a pipeline of 10 to 15 innovative projects on Sustainable Urban Development in the Southern Mediterranean region, with a financial framework of 5 million Euros.
Barcelona – Start date: 23.10.2012 The IV UfM Working Group on Transport and Urban Development Division will hold a meeting that will cover the following subjects: – Presentation of the state of play of the labeled projects, the projects under study and the project ideas in the Transport sector. – The activities in the Transport sectorLire la suite
Discussions focused on the developments made on the four components of the Strategy since the second meeting, held in Barcelona last 25 May 2012. The work is advancing successfully towards the completion of the Strategy.
The award rewards the joint activity of the UfM, the Center for Transport Studies of the Western Mediterranean (CETMO) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED) to raise awareness of the project and build the project framework.
The six-year-term project will focus during the first phase on the training activities at the intermodal platforms in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, which will be in operation in 2015, and it will result in a more competitive and efficient network of Euro-Mediterranean logistic platforms.
Further working meetings will be held in the coming months between the UfM Secretariat and German ministries, governmental agencies, think tanks as well as the private sector.
