Tangiers, 12 June, 2013. The Secretary General attended the final conference of the New Medina Cooperation program under the chairmanship of his Excellency, the Minister for Urban and City Planning of Moroco, Mr. Nabil Benabdellah. The program New Medina is a program of cooperation between new cities, financed by the European Commission under CIUDAD (Cooperation and Dialogue on Urban Development), with the objective of identifying best practices for sustainable new cities in the southern shore of the Mediterranean. The consortium of the project is composed of the Agglomération nouvelle Marne La Vallée, the Platforme des villes Nouvelles and TOUZIA Solidarité…. read more
Málaga, 11 June, 2013. The municipality of Málaga hosted a meeting of the Senior Officials of the Union for the Mediterranean on 10-11 June. The meeting discussed future projects of the Secretariat to be labelled and the state of play of the implementation of already labelled projects…. read more
A delegation of parlamentarians from the Bundestag had a working meeting with Secretary General Sijilmassi at the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean…. read more
Barcelona, 1 June, 2013. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) participated in the first Arab-Euro Conference on Higher Education (AECHE), held on 30th -31st May and 1st June in Barcelona. The UfM Secretariat presented the numerous projects it is currently working on, highlighting the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (EMUF), project endorsed by the 43 UfM member countries during the Senior Official Meeting held in Barcelona in June 2012. The major objectives of Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes are fostering cooperation with other universities of the Euro-Mediterranean region and enhancing cultural dialogue among countries in order… read more
UfM Senior Officials met at the Dead Sea to advance the preparations of the Mediterranean Solar Plan and prepare the upcoming Union for the Mediterranean’s Ministerial meeting on Energy, foreseen to take place next December, 2013 in Brussels…. read more
The project addresses the obstacles to the mobilization of financing in the Mediterranean Water Sector and aims to improve public governance and attract important investments. It involves work at national and regional level over three years (2013-2015) in six Mediterranean countries, with the potential of more countries joining at later stages…. read more
The Secretary General met with high representatives from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW) in Frankfurt on May 22. The meeting was the occasion to review the work of KfW in the region and for the Secretary General to present the mandate of the UfM Secretariat on promoting flagship regional projects, its main sectors of work as well as specific projects and initiatives that it is undertaking. KFW and the Secretariat highlighted the strong similarities of their priorities and concrete activities in the region and analysed in particular their engagement on issues such as renewable energy, water and environmental protection, job creation and… read more
The Secretary General of the UfM participated earlier this week in the panel discussion organized by the Körber Foundation and the German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG) in Hamburg in the presence of an audience. The event, which took place on May 21, tackled the topic ‘Future in the South? How Europe and North Africa are linked.’ Mr Sijilmassi joined as a panellist in a discussion that also featured the prominent political scientist, Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie. Among the topics discussed were the importance of Germany as a key trading partner in the region, the growing need for further regional economic and… read more
A l’initiative du Secrétaire Général de l’UpM, M. Fathallah Sijilmassi, la 11ème réunion du Bureau élargi de l’Assemblée régionale et locale Euro-Méditerranéenne (ARLEM) s’est tenue pour la première fois, au siège de l’Union pour la Méditerranée à Barcelone, le 23 mai 2013. Cette réunion du bureau s’est tenue en présence des coprésidents d’ARLEM, M. Ramon Luis Valcárcel Siso, Président de la Région de Murcie et M. Abd El Rahman, Gouverneur de Giza (Egypte) et des membres du bureau d’ARLEM. Cette journée de travail a permis d’évoquer les questions prioritaires telles que la mobilité urbaine durable et les moyens de renforcer… read more
Barcelona, 15 May, 2013. The Union for the Mediterranean labelled project Young Women as Job Creators, promoted by the Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen (AFAEMME), held its first Women Entrepreneurship Day on 15 of May 2013 in Barcelona. The seminar was organized by the Catalan Association of Business and Executive Women (ACEE) and hosted by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. It was attended by a large number of both, female and male students, from eight participating Spanish universities. The event opened with an intervention by Mr. Boris Dumančić from the Union for the Mediterranean, who conveyed the organization’s strong commitment to… read more
