• 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
• The Moroccan Minister of Higher Education, the Special Advisor to the Secretary of State in charge of Higher Education and Research in France and representatives of the local authorities launched the opening of classes in the Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) as part of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes. • Deeming the education and employability of young people to be the best investment for the future of the region, the UfM and the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes are working hand-in-hand for this purpose…. 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
EBRD to finance rehabilitation of wastewater treatment with €20 million loan…. read more
• The projects will directly benefit the development of sustainable urban areas in nine countries on the southern and eastern shores. • According to the European Investment Bank, urban infrastructure in the region will require an investment of €60 billion in the next 20 years. • The Union for the Mediterranean fosters social and urban infrastructure initiatives with a regional scope to raise strategic investments amongst the stakeholders in the region (governments, multilateral organisations and promoters)…. read more
Within the framework of the MedNC project, the ISCAE (Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises) linked to the University of la Manouba, completes the first edition of the ISCAE New Chance programme. The project could also be developed in Spain through the intermediation of iesMed (Innovation et Economie sociale en Méditerranée)…. read more
• Institutions for intercultural dialogue and cooperation, religious representatives and interfaith organisations are working together to build mutual understanding in the Euro-Mediterranean region. This is the first meeting in a long-term action-oriented process that aims to strengthen organisational capacity and foster cooperation as a means of countering discrimination and intolerance. • Participants welcomed the meeting as an important opportunity to raise awareness of the substantial contribution that interreligious and intercultural dialogue can make to peace and security in the region…. 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
Delphine Borione, UfM Deputy Secretary General, presented information about the UfM’s achievements and future activities to representatives of Member States at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. She also shared an exchange with MEPs on regional cooperation in the Mediterranean within the context of a debate on the report on the future European neighbourhood policy (ENP)…. read more
Luxembourg, 29 June 2015. Under Luxembourg’s current Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Mr Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, held a working session in Luxembourg with Mr Jean Asselborn, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, it was noted that the Luxembourg Presidency comes just as the European Union announces the new strategic axes of its Neighbourhood Policy to be implemented this autumn. Luxembourg’s Presidency also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, the precursor to the UfM. During the meeting between Mr Sijilmassi and Mr Asselborn, it was… read more
