Past Events

UfM Headquarters in Barcelona, 7 September 2015 In the framework of the Mobile Finance project Promoting Financial Inclusion via Mobile Financial Services in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries, labelled by the Senior Officials of the Union for the Mediterranean on 2 June 2014, the UfM Secretariat is organising the Second Regional Work… read more

UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 22-23 July, 2015 On 22-23 July 2015, at the initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), a High-level Meeting on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue will be held at the UfM headquarters in partnership with the European Union, the Anna Lindh Founda… read more

UfM Headquarters, Barcelona,  23 July 2015 The Union for the Mediterranean SOM (Senior Officials Meeting) of 31 March agreed to establish three high level UfM Energy Platforms on Gas, REM (Regional Electricity Market) and REEE (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency). The official announcement took place in Rabat on 6 May. The purpose of the UfM Pl… read more

UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 6 July 2015 On 6 July 2015,  the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will bring together the European Commission/EEAS, the IMF and three IFI´s with significant lending activities in the region- namely the EIB, EBRD and the World Bank Group for the Luxembourg Group Meeting. This senior-level meeting will provi… read more

 Barcelona, 17 – 19 June 2015 In the framework of the GEN Summit 2015, the Union for the Mediterranean is organising a meeting with the aim to get more participation of Mediterranean media organizations to international events as the GEN Summit. The Global Editors Network (GEN) is a community of more than 1000 Editors-in-Chief and media professiona… read more

As part of its Women empowerment strategy, UfM has labeled a leadership program called WOMED “next generation of leaders” for 22 young Women from the south of the Mediterranean which aims at improving their leadership capacities and gender skills. The project was launched in Sciences PO – Paris on June 1st, 2015 with the presence of Ms Annick Girar… read more

Barcelona, 10 June 2015 The Union for the Mediterranean will be institutional partner of the TEDx Barcelona Women that will take place on 10 June 2015. TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, three broad… read more

UfM Secretariat Headquarters in Barcelona, 10 June 2015 The Third Meeting of the UPFI Project Committee will gather all the Urban Project Finance Initiative (UPFI) partners, namely, the UfM Secretariat, the European Commission, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the German KFW, the Caisse des Dépôts (CD… read more

Barcelona, 9 June 2015 The Urban Project Finance Initiative (UPFI) is one of the pillars of the Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy, as stated in the declaration of the First Ministerial Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on sustainable urban development held in Strasbourg on 10 November 2011. It was launched… read more

UfM Secretariat Headquarters Barcelona, 2 – 5 June 2015 To ensure social inclusion, 5 million jobs need to be created every year in the European Neighborhood South Region. The largest reservoir of jobs remains the six millions micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that account for 90% of total employment, but are not yet contributing their ful… read more