View our Newsletter online French version Arabic version SEPTEMBER 2016 The UfM Ministerial Meeting on Labour and Employment (27 September, Jordan) has set a stronger regional cooperation framework for tangible initiatives and projects on youth employability in the Mediterranean. The 43 UfM Member States have reaffirmed their commitment to a comprehensive regional dimension and support the UfM Secretariat’s initiatives to foster human development and job creation, especially for our youth, which is the main asset for the future and stability of our region. We need to place young people at the core of regional cooperation efforts to make them active players of the region’s socio-economic future. At present, the UfM Mediterranean Initiative for Jobs (Med4Jobs) has 12 projects running, targeting over 100,000 young people and supporting the development of over 800 SMEs. HIGHLIGHT OF UFM ACTVITIES Union for the Mediterranean commits to fight structural unemployment UfM Conference urgently calls for the full participation of women as main vectors for regional stability and development MedCOP Climate 2016 in Tangier: The UfM backs concrete schemes to drive a shared Mediterranean climate agenda UfM Member States approve 4 new regional development projects Unleashing the potential of the Mediterranean: the UfM promotes 45 regional cooperation projects in 2016 Development and peace go hand in hand: UfM & Germany launch new project to promote youth employment in the region Institutional partnership to strengthen intercultural and interfaith dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region Governments and institutions in Paris and Amman have worked with the UfM Secretariat to push forward the regional agenda on gender equality INTERVIEW “ The Mediterranean basin constitutes one of the regions with the largest growth potential in the world. Young entrepreneurs must believe in the future and assume certain risks, by analysing their project’s viability in cooperation with local partners.” Read more Zoom on new UfM projects Agadir SME Programme – Fostering SME competitiveness and trade in the Agadir agreement member countries Izmir Urban Integrated Waste Management Project ON SCREEN Women for the Mediterranean: Driving force for stability and development Meet students from the Skills for Success Programme in Beirut, Lebanon AGENDA 24-25 October 3rd Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Intercultural Dialogue. Valletta, Malta 1 November Launching event of the “Integrated Programme for the Protection of the Lake Bizerte against Pollution”. Tunis, Tunisia 2-3 November ANIMA EMEA Business Forum, within the context of the Mediterranean Economic Week in Marseille. Marseille, France 7-18 November UfM activities at the COP22. Marrakesh, Morocco 11 November Mediterranean Climate Agenda of the COP 14 November Launching of UfM Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Platform and Launching of the SPREF Project 15 November SPREF (SEMed Private Renewable Energy Framework) Conference 17 November UfM High Level Side-Event on stability and sustainable development of the Mediterranean 29-30 November Med Ports Forum. Marseille, France 30 November – 2 December MedaWeek 2016, Mediterranean Week of Economic Leaders. Barcelona, Spain 1 December UfM Ministerial Conference on Energy. Rome, Italy See more events OUR PRIORITY AREAS Share this This newsletter is prepared by the Communications Unit of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean and it is distributed for information purposes only. Comments are welcome and should be addressed by e-mail to news@ufmsecretariat.org. If you wish to receive this newsletter regularly, please . subscribe via the Secretariat website. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter any more, you can unsubscribe here.