19-20 October 2020. Following the proposed recommendations of the Third Meeting of Civil Protection Directors-General of the Union for the Mediterranean, a two-day preparatory meeting will gather online to discuss the two working groups, namely: – Public awareness in Civil Protection and disaster risk management – Volunteers in Civil Protection. Th… read more
13 October 2020. As a follow-up to the UfM Senior Officials’ meeting of 23rd September, 2020, the UfM is organising an online informal coordination meeting, which will be hosted on Tuesday, 13 October, 2020, between 14:00-15:30 hrs. CEST. The objective of the meeting is to facilitate information exchange, enable comparison of notes, and to contrib… read more
Barcelona, 8 October 2020. The fourth Webinar to be delivered by the UfM Economic Development and Employment Division is anchored to the UfM Secretariat’s efforts to contribute to the post-pandemic recovery, and aims to showcase some of the promising sectors and the required skills for the ‘new normal’ that will follow the crisis. Capitalizing on t… read more
LIVE WEBINAR (WEBEX) Thursday 08 OCTOBER 2020 13:00 BRITISH SUMMER TIME KEYNOTE GUEST OF HONOUR SPEAKER HE Ambassador Nasser Kamel, Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean SPEAKER MODERATOR Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani Founder & Chairman, The Arab International Women’s Forum The UfM celebrates a very special anniversary in 2020, being … read more
6 October 2020. The Social Dialogue Forum, as a bipartite forum, meets for the fourth time on 6-7 October 2020, in a fully virtual format and brings together representatives from national employers’ and workers’ organisations from UfM partner countries, relevant Euro-Mediterranean regional organisations, as well as representatives from the UfM Co-P… read more
2 October 2020 at 12h30 -14h. The pandemic crisis has taken its toll on our society, our lives and economy. On a global level, many countries decided to close their borders, while international and national travel institutions decided to put people first by imposing a travel ban. Tourism, being one of the fastest growing economic sectors has been t… read more
30 September 2020. The second UfM Ad hoc Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on Environment and Climate Change will take place online on 30 September 2002. The first ad hoc SOM on Environment and Climate Change took place online on 9 July 2020.
29 September 2020. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, the Government of Catalonia and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) are organising a series of conferences entitled “Dialogues of the Mediterranean +25 Cycle”, to discuss central issues in depth with the aim to renew the vision of the Euro-Mediterra… read more
23 September 2020. The Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean meet on a regular basis at the level of Senior Officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the 43 countries. The Senior Officials Meetings (SOM) oversee and coordinate the work of the UfM. They approve the budget and the work programme of the Secretariat. They also disc… read more
22 September 2020. The Mediterranean basin is one of the world’s regions most impacted by climate change. The Mediterranean region is warming 20% faster than the global average, according to the first-ever scientific report on the impact of climate change in the Mediterranean: Risks associated to climate and environmental changes in the Mediterrane… read more