Climate change is expected to severely impact the MENA region and tackling climate change is therefore a key priority both for the Mediterranean countries’ governments and for their international partners. After the historic agreement reached in Paris last November and in the run-up to the COP 22 in Marrakech, the “EIB MED Conference: Climate Actio… read more
Riviera Hotel, Corniche el Manara, Lebanon, 18 August 2016 AMIDEAST/Lebanon will hold a graduation ceremony for the participants of the programme Skills for Success in Beirut on August 18, 2016. Skills for Success is an employability-skills-training programme, labelled by the UfM, addressed at young, economically disadvantaged and unemployed women… read more
Barcelona, 27 July 2016. For further information please send an e-mail to: Aoife.terry@ufmsecretariat.org
Malta, 26-27 July 2016. The Water Expert Group (WEG) of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) convened for its 5th Meeting on 23-24 November 2015 in Luxemburg, giving the mandate to a smaller Drafting Group to work out a common UfM water agenda based on a Roadmap and associated Work Plan. It also suggested political impulse through a UfM Ministeri… read more
Amman, Jordan, 19th to 21th July 2016 The Conference is organized by UNIDO as part of the projects “Promoting women empowerment for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development in the MENA region” and “Development of Clusters in Cultural and Creative Industries in the Southern Mediterranean”, under the auspices of the Union for the Mediterranea… read more
18-19 July 2016. Montpellier With the support of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) will hold the First Mediterranean Forum initiative for PhD students and young researchers in Montpellier in July, 18-19. The objectives of this forum is to open up a plat… read more
Tangier, Morocco, 18 and 19 July 2016. Climate change is a top-priority of today’s international political agenda. The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions in this regard. After Paris in France last year, the next session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN… read more
Brussels, 12-13 July 2016. Two years after the second policy dialogue meeting on Higher Education, the European Commission (DG Education and Culture) will gather in Brussels on 12-13 July 2016 high level civil servants responsible for higher education or international cooperation from Southern Mediterranean and European countries, university repres… read more
Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations´ Chamber United Nations, Geneva, Saturday 9th of July 2016. This very first Concert is being organized by ONUART Foundation , with the support of several Mediterranean countries, and the collaboration of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, as a tribute to Mediterranean cultures, as an expre… read more
Amman, date to be confirmed For further information please contact the Business Development division: business@ufmsecretariat.org