9-12 February, UfM headquarters, Barcelona. The UfM Secretariat together with the Palestinian Water Authority are organising on 10 February in Barcelona a technical coordination meeting with the European Commission and key international financial institutions involved in the promotion of the Desalination Facility for the Gaza Strip project, namely… read more
Turin (Italy), 2-3 February 2016 For further information please contact the Social & Civil Affairs divison: socialaffairs@ufmsecretariat.org
27-29 January 2016. Marseille, France In the framework of the Mediterranean New Chance (MedNC) project, a first transfer of knowledge and exchange of experiences and best practices between the Second Chance School of Marseille and some Spanish entities working for the social and professional integration of young people excluded from the labour mark… read more
28-29 January 2016, Madrid The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Fathallah Sijilmassi, will visit Madrid on 28-29 January 2016 to meet with entrepreneurs, think tanks, business organisations, media and with the three Deputy-Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. He will be the key note speaker at Instituto de Emp… read more
25 January 2016, Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona UfM Secretary General Fathallah Sijilmassi will meet with representatives from local think tanks and media to discuss the current challenges and opportunities in the region and the UfM’s road ahead following the strong political support received by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs during the UfM Confere… read more
18-19 January 2016. Centre de Conférences Ministériel (CCM), Paris The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) has invited the UfM to participate in a seminar entitled “The Professionalisation and employability of youth in the Mediterranean: innovated approaches & exchange of views” organised by the FSP (Priori… read more
UfM Secretariat Headquarters, Barcelona, 15 December 2015 The UfM Working Group on Urban Development, created by the Transport and Urban Development Division as a consultative body in the early days of UfM Secretariat, will hold its VII Meeting in Barcelona on 15 December 2015. The event will bring together eminent experts from several partner ins… read more
Paris, 5 December 2015 Organised by European Commission (DG Climate Action) and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the side event ‘Mediterranean Cooperation on Climate Change: Union for the Mediterranean’ will be held on the sidelines of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, at the European Union Pavilion… read more
Palacio de Congresos de Catalunya, Barcelona, 26 November 2015 Three years after the European Union and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan assumed the Co-Presidency of the Union for the Mediterranean –launched in 2008 in Paris-, and twenty years exactly after the Barcelona Declaration launched the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, a UfM Conference “Towa… read more
Barcelona, 25-27 November 2015 The IX edition of the Mediterranean Week of Economic Leaders will place an imperative role on the latest regional transformations, bringing regional and European views on the economic implications of the radical political transitions and the means for further sustaining EU-Mediterranean solutions. This year the MedaW… read more