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• The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Groupe interacadémique pour le développement (GID) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration in the areas of higher education, research and youth employment. • Fostering educational, training and scientific cooperation is key to effectively advance integration, stability and human development in the Mediterranean…. read more

• Minister Schmit and UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi discussed the upcoming third UfM Ministerial Meeting on Labour and Employment. • They explored ways to further coordinate efforts in addressing the challenges of the region in the field of vocational training and youth employment…. read more

• The Euro-Mediterranean region is facing numerous consequences of the climate change which take a hard toll on habitants of Eastern and Southern Mediterranean countries. In this regard, the sustainable agriculture and fisheries are vital to the stable social and economic growth of the Mediterranean. • CIHEAM’s 1st Mediterranean Forum for PhD Students and Young Researchers, framed within the UfM labelled project Higher Education & Food Security and Rural Development, provided the opportunity to debate on potential initiatives addressing the current challenges related to the design of sustainable agricultural food production systems in the Mediterranean basin…. read more

Today, at the Dead Sea in Jordan, Ministers of International Cooperation and Planning from the 43 member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) defined key steps to enhance the impact of regional cooperation…. read more

• The Employability in the Mediterranean Conference took place on 14 April in Marseille in the presence of the Minister for Professional Training and Employment of Tunisia, Zied Ladhari, and with the attendance of over 120 participants including Young Mediterranean Leaders and representatives of local, national and international institutions as well as representatives from the Mediterranean private sector. Young beneficiaries of the UfM-labelled project New Chance Mediterranean (MedNC) were also present. • Minister Ladhari said:“There are many synergies between Mediterranean countries on topics concerning unemployment and there are so many interregional actions that can regenerate opportunities for businesses, people, job… read more

Paris, 21 March 2016. The Director of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (École des Ponts Paris Tech), Mr. Armel Labourdonnaye, and the President of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (UEMF), Mr. Mostapha Bousmina, signed a partnership agreement at the Embassy of Morocco in Paris. The signing was attended by Amb. Chakib Benmoussa and Mr. Mohamed Kabbaj, Chancellor of the UEMF. Under the agreement, the Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and the UEMF reiterate their desire to build a partnership based on training and research programmes of excellence addressing socio-economic issues in the Mediterranean. The agreement is focused on two… read more

• 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

HOMERe stakeholders have signed a cooperation charter and adopted an action plan for 2016-2017 to improve the 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 9 Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia…. read more

In the framework of this collaboration an Euro-Mediterranean institute of political science will be created within the UEMF… read more

Rome, 26 January 2016. In accordance with the joint decision of Mrs. Stefania Giannini, the Italian Minister of Education, Universities and Research and Mr. Lahcen Daoudi, the Moroccan Minister of Education, Scientific Research & Executive Training and in the presence of the Ambassador of Morocco in Rome, Hassan Abouyoub, the signing ceremony of two cooperation agreements between the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes and the University of Florence (UNIHI) took place on 26 January in Rome. The President of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes, Prof. Mostapha Bousmina, and Rector Luigi Dei signed a “Cultural and Scientific cooperation agreement” and a “Specific… read more