The world of work will have to challenge itself even more to recover from the economic consequences of the pandemic. Organized by the German Development Agency (GIZ) in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean and Siemens, the EconoWin Summit debated the need for a new approach on gender equality in the labour market. 09-17Read more
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9-17 June 2020. The UfM is partner to the EconoWin Couch Summit 2020 / Voices for the Future: When Women Work Economies Win, organised by he Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which will take place online from 9 June to 17 June 2020 UfM experts on WomenRead more
Much attention is being paid to what the ‘new norm’ will look like as crisis management of the pandemic moves increasingly to recovery policies and stimuli. Within this context, the Union for the Mediterranean’s recent webinar explored two questions on many young people’s minds – where will the opportunities be and what skills will IRead more
WEBINAR: Economic Opportunities and Skills in the Post-Pandemic Horizon: Reasons for Hope 20 May 2020, 15h00 CEST, 1 hour (40 min. seminar + 20 min. Q&A). The first webinar to be delivered by the UfM Business Development and Employment Division is anchored to the UfM efforts to contribute to the post-pandemic recovery, and aims to showcaseRead more
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7 May 2020. EMEA is organising the webinar “COVID-19 in the Mediterranean and Africa: How did containment and mitigation policies perform?”, with the participation of UfM Senior Economic Advisor, Hamed El Etreby. This first webinar is motivated by the recently published study on “COVID-19 in the Mediterranean and Africa: Diagnosis, Policy Responses, Preliminary Assessment and Way forward”, theRead more
28-30 April and 5 May 2020. ANIMA investment network, in collaboration with the UfM and the German Development agency GIZ will organize a series of webinar sessions on “Developing investments that contribute to sustainable development”. They will take place on the following days: 28th, 29th and 30th of April and 5th of May 2020. These sessions wereRead more
The ANIMA Investment Network, in collaboration with the UfM and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), is holding this month a series of workshops to help develop investments that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Mediterranean region. 28 April 2020. Increasing investments that contribute to the SDGs can be a development enabler: itRead more
Maharat Med, a project to train students to be ready for future work and help them to start their own businesses has launched a package of activities since the beginning of the current year, including Maharat Universities and Maharat Awareness Sessions. Developed in line with the UfM flagship Mediterranean Initiative for Jobs (Med4Jobs), Maharat Med is anRead more
Due to the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) emergency, the UfM Conference on the challenges to access to Finance for MSMEs in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (Barcelona, 20 March 2020), will not take place as initially scheduled and is postponed to a later date still to be confirmed, in the framework of the measures taken by otherRead more
