Barcelona, 3 February 2015. The period for the submission of entries to the Catalonia Ecodesign Award 2015, is now open. This award, organised by the Government of Catalonia, recognises products, products under development and product-fostering strategies that are designed to improve the environmental performance of products and services over the course of their life cycle. The award has five categories, of which category E Euro-Mediterranean Design is aimed at international entrants from the 21 neighbouring countries of the Mediterranean. The Award counts on the support of SWITCH-Med, the EU funded Programme to support Mediterranean countries to shift to Sustainable Patterns of… read more
The European Commission – DG Employment – and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) held the 4th meeting of the High-Level Working Group on Employment and Labour on 28 January 2015 in Brussels…. read more
• Three Committees of the UfM Parliamentary Assembly (Culture, Economic Affairs and Political Affairs) met at the UfM Secretariat on 23, 26 and 30 January. • Parliamentarians from 35 UfM member States and the European Parliament convened in Barcelona to discuss key issues and priorities for the region…. read more
Amman, 29 January 2015. The Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Nasser Judeh, held a meeting with the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Fathallah Sijilmassi, during which he discussed the mandate and the activities of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, as well as ways to develop them in order to reinforce the partnership and the cooperation between the member States within the Euro-Mediterranean framework. They also discussed the current mechanisms and the measures that can be adopted to accelerate the UfM activities, and the need to realize the desired objectives within the… read more
The Ministerial Conference will take place in Madrid on 23-24 March 2015, gathering ten Western Mediterranean countries…. read more
Barcelone, le 21 janvier 2015. M. Michel Vauzelle, Président de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur et de la Commission Inter-Méditerranéenne (CIM) de la Conférence des Régions Périphériques Maritimes (CRPM), a rencontré au siège de l’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM) le Secrétaire Général, M. Fathallah Sijilmassi, en présence de M. Jean-Claude Gayssot, Vice-président de la Région Languedoc-Roussillon, des représentants du gouvernement de la Generalitat de Catalunya, et de la Secrétaire Générale adjointe de l’UpM, Mme Delphine Borione. Ils étaient accompagnés de M. Davide Strangis, Secrétaire Exécutif de la CIM-CRPM. « Je crois beaucoup à la dimension territoriale du partenariat euro-méditerranéen – a précisé… read more
The UfM Secretariat and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work closer on areas of common concern, including job creation, women’s socio-economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, social economy, food security and climate change…. read more
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
