Paris, 9 April 2014. UfM Secretary General Mr Fathallah Sijilmassi and Mr Jean-Christophe Menet, Chief of UfM Cabinet, head to Paris to participate in a seminar on Euro-Mediterranean relations to be held by the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Chaired by Mrs Elisabeth Guigou, the event will take place on 10 April 2014. The seminar brings together several personalities and stakeholders involved in Euro-Mediterranean cooperation to exchange ideas and views on ways to strengthen Euro-Mediterranean dialogue and the support to regional cooperation projects. Within the framework of this visit, UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi will take part tonight in a… read more
The development of a wind farm in Jordan, the creation of a Mediterranean water knowledge platform, a capacity building programme aimed at promoting civic education in schools and a programme aimed at stimulating green industries and entrepreneurship are the four new projects recently labelled by the UfM…. read more
In the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean Senior Officials Meeting, the UfM Secretariat officially launched the Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI). UPFI is the financial component of the ‘Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy’, which aims to create a shared and common framework for the development of sustainable urban and territorial development strategies and projects…. read more
UfMS participates in the ECOFIN/FEMIP Ministerial Meeting in Athens organized by the Greek Presidency and the EIB… read more
Secretary General Fathallah Sijilmassi held discussions at the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, in Brussels, on the activities of the UfM Secretariat in the current context of the Southern neighborhood. UfM Secretary General attended the meeting with the Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union and former member of the European Parliament, Minister Íñigo Méndez de Vigo…. read more
Bringing together some 200 participants from 35 countries, the conference created a unique momentum for dialogue at political and technical levels, allowing the exchange of best practices in the field of gender equality, the signature of cooperation and financing agreements, as well as the official launching of specific projects…. read more
The project was launched today on the occasion of the ‘Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment: Projects for Progress’ Conference. Co-funding for the implementation of the first phase has been secured by Norway and Flanders. The training courses will start in the coming months in Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco, then in Lebanon and Egypt…. read more
Barcelona, 22 March 2014. The Union for the Mediterranean joins the international community in expressing the need to find global and regional solutions to address the challenges surrounding energy and water (water-energy-nexus), highlighting the interlinkage of the two sectors, and the need for more resource-efficiency, which is a particular concern also in the Mediterranean region. In this regard, the consultants undertaking the current technical preparations of the UfM-labelled project Desalination Facility for the Gaza Strip are also evaluating power supply options that include renewable sources of energy. The Secretariat, through its project-oriented approach, is currently developing a series of actions… read more
Brdo, 11 March 2014. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean participated today in the seminar ‘Promoting a Culture of Mediation and Prevention in the Mediterranean’, organised in Bro, Slovenia, by the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bled Strategic Forum. The seminar was held within the framework of the Initiative on Mediation in the Mediterranean Region. Spain and Morocco launched the Initiative on Mediation in the Mediterranean in September 2012. By focusing on a specific region, the initiative, of which Slovenia is a participant country, is part of a broader international endeavour to encourage national and regional… read more
The UfM-labelled project, Euro-Mediterranean Masters & PhDs, will be implemented at Universities which are part of the EMUNI network, promoter of the initiative. The project aims to increase the employability of students by offering higher education courses related to the priorities of the Euro-Mediterranean region…. read more
