Barcelona, 22 December 2014. The recently appointed Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ignacio Ybáñez, and the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Fathallah Sijilmassi, held a bilateral meeting yesterday at the Secretariat’s headquarters, in Barcelona, to exchange views on UfM activities and discuss Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and regional challenges. The Secretary General praised the strong commitment of Spain to the UfM, and in view of the current discussions aimed at giving a new impulse to the European Neighborhood Policy, agreed with the Secretary of State Ybáñez on the need to continue working together and build on existing achievements to… read more
The creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Technology as part of the University, the launch of a recruiting campaign for executive staff and professors and the commencement of the first two accredited Master’s degree programmes in temporary offices are among the main project’s achievements of 2014…. read more
Barcelona, 18 December 2014. With an overall goal of enhancing regional integration and boosting trade between the two shores of the Mediterranean, the UfM Secretariat hosted the worskshop “Inter-Trade development and supporting SMEs in Agadir Agreement member countries” on 14 December in Cairo. The event was organised together with the Agadir Technical Unit and the Egyptian Ministry of Trade, Industry and SMEs with the aim to stimulate South-South industrial cooperation. It was opened by the Egyptian Industry Minister, H.E. Mounir Fakhry AbdelNour, who underlined the importance of joining forces and exerting more efforts to reap the benefits offered by the… read more
National representatives in charge of Environmental Policy from more than 20 Mediterranean countries joined participants from international financial institutions, regional organisations and other key stakeholders in adopting a strategic document outlining the key objectives over the next 5 years for the H2020 Initiative for a cleaner Mediterranean as regards investments in pollution reduction, review and monitoring, capacity building and research…. read more
The UfM Secretariat takes part in 6th plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) on 14 and 15 December in Antalya, Turkey, where local and regional leaders and representatives from the European Union and its Mediterranean partners called for a new momentum in the European Neighbourhood Policy…. read more
The Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production is launching the Catalonia Ecodesign Award 2015. This is an initiative organized by the Government of Catalonia and it is open to candidates based in Mediterranean neighbouring countries. The award counts on the support of SWITCH-Med, the EU funded Programme to support Mediterranean countries to shift to Sustainable Patterns of Consumption and Production, and on the collaboration of UNEP/Mediterranean Action Plan, UNEP/Division of Technology Industry and Economics and the Secretariat of Union for the Mediterranean. The Catalonia Ecodesign Award is addressed to designers (both professionals and students), manufacturers or promoters who… read more
December, 2014. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) has collaborated with RES4MED (Renewable Energy Solutions for the Mediterranean) and Enel Foundation in the first edition of the Advanced Training Course “Integration of Renewable Energy Solutions in the Mediterranean electricity markets” that was successfully concluded in November. RES4MED and Enel Foundation have organized this course during two weeks in November 2014, also in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. The training programme was addressed to a selected group of candidates from Energy Regulatory Authorities, Ministries and Energy Companies of Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, Ph.D. and researchers as well… read more
Project Approval Committee selects 14 high-potential Cultural and Creative Industries clusters in participating countries of the Southern Mediterranean; pilot initiatives will demonstrate that, by working together as clusters in cultural and creative sector, additional business can be derived that will lead to job creation and by extension to economic growth…. read more
The UfM Secretariat participated in the NextMed Conference: “From ENPI to ENI: a new phase of cross-border cooperation”. Organised by the Joint Managing Authority directed by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, the event took place today in Rome with the aim of analysing the Mediterranean cross-border cooperation achievements and challenges and to launch the new phase of the programme…. read more
The UfM High-Level Conference on the Financing of the Future Trans-Mediterranean Transport Network (TMN-T) successfully gathered over 120 participants before the Euro-Mediterranean Partners. The event was attended by the Minister of Transport of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, H.E. Lina Shbeeb, in her capacity as Co-Chair of the UfM, as well as by the main European and international financial institutions, donors and private companies…. read more