• HOMERe stakeholders sign a cooperation charter and adopt action plan for 2016-2017 to improve employability prospects of talented postgraduates through internship mobility experiences in transnational companies in the Mediterranean. • Labelled under the Mediterranean Initiative for Jobs (Med4Jobs), the project will be implemented during this pilot phase in nine Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia…. read more
• At their first meeting of 2016, the Senior Officials of the Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) approved four new regional projects in the fields of Inclusive Growth, Sustainable Development and Women’s Empowerment. • The meeting also provided an opportunity for the 43 Member State representatives to highlight the achievements of 2015 with a view to further develop regional cooperation and integration in the Mediterranean within the framework of the UfM…. read more
Following-up on the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Digital Economy, endorsed last September 2014 in Brussels, the UfM Secretariat is working together with key partners to remove the regional barriers in the digital sector…. read more
• The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean attended the 12th Meeting of Foreign Ministers, hosted in Tangier by the Kingdom of Morocco as Co-President of the 5+5 Dialogue. • 100,000 young people are benefiting directly from 16 of the 33 UfM-labelled projects in a region with almost 30% youth unemployment. • These projects are related to areas such as education and mobility (the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes ); employability (the Med4Jobs initiative); business creation (“Generation Entrepreneur” project), and women’s empowerment, with 10 projects launched and 50,000 beneficiaries. Barcelona, 8 October 2015. The Foreign Ministers of the “5+5 Dialogue”,… read more
UfM holds the Second Regional Workshop of the Mobile Finance Project to discuss on the effectiveness of alternative financial services distribution models based on mobile finance and branchless banking in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia…. read more
Luxembourg holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the second half of 2015. It is hosting an Informal Meeting of EU Ministers for Employment, their Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) counterparts and key stakeholders to tackle youth unemployment, which is a major political, economic and social challenge in the region. A Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Meeting on Employment is expected to take place in 2016…. read more
The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (Businessmed) signed an agreement to strengthen the private sector’s contribution to socio-economic development in the Mediterranean region…. read more
• Both institutions signed an official partnership agreement to cooperate in areas such as business development, women’s economic empowerment, energy, water, environment and climate change. • The operational collaboration between UfM and UNIDO started in 2014 with the promotion of the project “Establishment of a regional platform for the Development of Cultural and Creative Industries and Clusters in the Southern Mediterranean”, aimed to foster entrepreneurial cooperation among the cultural and creative industries…. read more
Unleashing public and private investment to enhance agricultural production and improve food security is essential for the southern and eastern Mediterranean region…. read more
The EU Commissioner for the European Neighbouhood Policy and Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, the former Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mehdi Jomaa and the UfM Secretary General, Fathallah Sijilmassi, reiterate the importance of fostering cooperation between private sector, International financial institutions and regional organisations…. read more
