Activities

    CONTEXT   The global pandemic prompted a re-examination of existing development strategies. To provide for more sustainable and equitable income generation for people in the Mediterranean region, a reassessment of growth strategies is important - a need that appears today all the more important... read more

*/ Mediterranean Host Municipalities Learning Network (HMLN)  5 Online Sessions : May 16, May 30, May 31, June 1, June 2.    CONTEXT AND RATIONALE Municipalities hosting refugees face the pressing need to create smart jobs for local and refugee communities. This need is further exacerbated by the... read more

Context   Mobility in all its forms - physical, knowledge and skills - has an unprecedented role to play in education, particularly in the Mediterranean. Indeed, mobility can strengthen the quality of education, for example through new teaching methods, but also through cooperation and co-... read more

Context and Rationale   Early Childhood Development is a challenge for cities hosting forcibly displaced populations. The arrival of forcibly displaced means an increase in the urban population with social and economic repercussions on the lives of children and caregivers. Children fleeing conflict... read more

Mediterranean Countries and Post-COVID Shifts in Global Value Chains  Niche Industries offer Full Potential for Growth and Regional Integration    The Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) and the Euro Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences (FEMISE), are pleased to announce the... read more

*/     Background The CMI-led study on “Water security nexus in North Africa: catalyzing regional coordination around climate change, resilience, and migration”, funded by FCDO, focuses on understanding the complex nexus relationships across North Africa on water security, aggravated by climate... read more

*/ Context A Flagship Mediterranean Event     Organized by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, the Mediterranean Worlds Forum was held in Marseille on February 7 and 8... read more

Objectives The event will be structured around the presentation of the CMI policy paper on "Youth, Actors for Change: Rethinking Mobility". Giulia Marchesini, Human Capital Senior Programme Manager at the CMI/UNOPS, will present and discuss the findings and recommendations of the paper with experts... read more

*/   Youth Regional Water Workshop  Background   The CMI’s Youth Regional workshop aims to amplify the voice of the youth on water-related challenges and will seek to highlight the important roles of the youth in working towards regional water security. It will do so through knowledge creation to... read more

    Context and Rationale   COVID-19 is revealing inequities between and within countries. Poorer people tend to be more exposed to the risk of infection, less likely to be able to work from home, more likely to live in large households and Beforecramped conditions, and less likely to receive the... read more

  Context   The Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI)/UNOPS and the World Bank are organizing a consultative virtual workshop on December 15, 2021, to discuss the preliminary findings of the World Bank - CMI/UNOPS report "COVID-19 and Migration in the Mediterranean''.   The report explores the... read more

  Context   Local authorities in the Middle East and Turkey are still bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic socio-economic consequences, which added to their struggle to manage the additional social and economic pressure of hosting refugees and displaced. With rising unemployment and an... read more

Regional Approaches for Improving Water Management in the Mediterranean December 7th, 2021 from 09:00 to 10:30 AM CET       Session pilot: Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI-UNOPS)   Why are we meeting in Malta?   The objective of the CMI session is to build on the preliminary work of IME’s... read more

    Announcement   The UK is currently hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. The first-ever Water & Climate Pavilion is mobilizing the water community and partners in the global climate action community, in order to shed light on the role of water in... read more

Towards Sustainable Development Models in a post-covid Mediterranean: AMSE-CMI Knowledge and Policy Dialogues Event 1. “A Post-Pandemic Growth Strategy for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries”       Context The global pandemic has prompted a re-examination of existing development... read more