UfM representatives presented to the international community the Desalination Facility Project as a priority water intervention for the Gaza Strip. The presentation took place at the Cairo International Conference on Palestine and Reconstructing Gaza…. read more
• Skills for Success: Employability Skills for Women will support 450 young women and girls from Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia in acquiring the tools, knowledge and skills needed to access local labour markets. • Additionally, a workshop on vocational training for girls and women has been held to analyse the current context in Lebanon and the Euro-Mediterranean region…. read more
With the aim to foster employment opportunities, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will be organising on 10 October, in Beirut, the launching of the “Skills for Success: Employability Skills for Women” project’s first phase. This UfM-labelled project is promoted by AMIDEAST and seeks to support 450 young women and girls from Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia in acquiring the tools, knowledge and skills needed to access local labour markets. The project’s activities have already started in Morocco and Jordan, and are about to start in Lebanon. Egypt and Tunisia will constitute the project’s second phase of implementation, which is foreseen… read more
• The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Fathallah Sijilmassi, and the Secretary General of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), Cosimo Lacirignola, signed a cooperation agreement to undertake joint initiatives benefitting higher education and food security in the Euro-Mediterranean region. • The UfM-CIHEAM project “Higher Education on Food Security & Rural Development” was officially launched. • Within the frame of this project, 20 scholarships have been allocated to Southern Mediterranean female students in the four CIHEAM institutes for the 2014-2015 academic year…. read more
The initiative is designed to primarily aid micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries involved in the project. In addition, public and private agencies are also expected to greatly benefit from this project, thanks to the capacity building programmes deployed…. read more
The project will support the Central Banks of Jordan and Morocco in the development of regulations expanding access to financial services among the Mediterranean population through innovative retail payment solutions such as mobile financial services…. read more
Strategic High-Level EU-IFIs Meeting on emerging challenges in the Southern Mediterranean… read more
EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Jordanian ICT Minster H.E. Azzam Sleit and UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi, together with the Heads of Delegation from 43 countries around the Mediterranean today launched new Digital Economy initiatives…. read more
The INSA Euro-Méditerranée officially came into being on Monday 22 September as part of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez (UEMF). This project created the first Euro-Mediterranean establishment for engineer training…. read more
Representatives of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) met Francesco Pigliaru, President of Autonomous region of Sardinia, in Italy…. read more
