Agenda - Advisory Group Meeting - Energy Efficiency in MENA 22-23 September
1.Regional workshop on the KE summary
Towards Green Growth in Mediterranean Countries - Overview
Programme - Atelier national sur la gestion des eaux souterraines
L'intermédiation privée à l‘étranger et la régulation des établissements prives de Placement à l’étranger (les EPPE): Cas de la Tunisie, Walid Blel, Tunisia - French only
Arab Youth Initiative Agenda, 6-7 November, 2013
Regional workshop on the KE BIOS
Workshop Presentation - UKP May 22-23
Services for innovating firms : the role of technopoles and incubators
North African Coastal Cities Embrace a Climate-Smart Future: Highlights
Conclusions of the workshop
Agenda - Climate Change and Migration: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa
The potential for EU-MENA labor arbitrage The migration of MENA health workers Building effective behind the border systems Making Bilateral Labor Agreements work
CMI Participates in Marseille Debate on Climate Change in Preparation for “Conference Paris Climat 2015” (COP 21)
Jan 21, 2015 / Highlight
January 21, 2015 – Marseille, France
In preparation for the “Conference Paris Climat 2015” (COP 21), CMI Green Growth experts participated in a debate on climate change focusing on the questions resulting from the Lima climate change conference (December 2014). The debate was organized by Aix-Marseille University and involved...
Reframing Europe’s Immigration Questions through an Urban Lens
Dec 16, 2014 / Blog entry
By Manjula Luthria* and Casey Weston**
This year’s European parliamentary elections revealed three important paradoxes in European migration dialogue. First, public discourse displayed egregious misalignment between popular perceptions of immigration and immigration realities. These unfounded perceptions of immigration’s impacts fueled the...
CMI Organizes Mediterranean Graffiti Exhibit “Walls of Change, Voices of Youth”
Dec 16, 2014 / Blog entry
Graffiti, just like Facebook and Twitter, can act as a powerful driver of change: graffiti can be anonymous, it is seen by all, and reflects constantly evolving messages. Most importantly, graffiti marks the streets with the voices of citizens.
In December 2014, in the context of its 6th Annual Meeting, the CMI organized “Walls of Change, Voices...
CMI Presents Turn Down the Heat at Climate Meeting of Local and Regional Elected Officials of the Mediterranean
Dec 11, 2014 / Highlight
December 11, 2014 – Marseille, France
CMI experts moderated a session involving representatives from 16 countries and IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) and Plan Bleu at a Climate Meeting of Local and Regional Elected Officials of the Mediterranean. WB and CMI presented findings of the new report, Turn Down the Heat III. As a...
CMI Participates in Conference on Economic Development After the Arab Uprisings
Dec 11, 2014 / Highlight
December 11-12, 2014 – Paris, France
CMI experts were present for the Dauphine University Conference on Economic Development after the Arab Uprisings. The CMI contributed to three sessions: Youth Unemployment and Migration; Return on Education and Mass Unemployment; and Macroeconomics, Social and Political Developments after the Uprisings....
CMI Contributes to the Discussion in Preparation for MEDCOP21
Dec 11, 2014 / Highlight
December 19, 2014 – Marseille, France
The CMI joined actors at a Technical Committee meeting held at the Villa Méditerranée and organized by the French Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the French Presidency of the Republic. The Center represented its partners and contributed to the discussion of the agenda of the MEDCOP21 meeting: a...
Mediterranean Experts Discuss World Bank Report “Turn Down the Heat”
Dec 09, 2014 / Highlight
December 9, 2014 – Marseille, France
An expert panel discussion followed the presentation of a newly-launched World Bank report, Turn Down the Heat III. One of the report’s main authors was present and was joined by the Tunisian Minister of Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, as well as representatives from the...
High-Level Dialogue: Economic Transition in the Mediterranean
Dec 09, 2014 / Highlight
December 9, 2014 – Marseille, France
A high-level dialogue was organized around the CMI series of discussions on economic transitions in the Mediterranean. Following an introduction given by CMI Manager Mourad Ezzine, contributing experts Jean-Claude Cousseran and Hafez Ghanem presented the discussion series’ report, which was discussed by...
French Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) Region Becomes Member of the CMI
Dec 08, 2014 / Highlight
December 8, 2014 – Marseille, France:
The French Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region is now member of the Center for Mediterranean Integration. President of the French Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, Michel Vauzelle and Acting Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank, Gerard Byam signed the Memorandum of...
Members and Partners Gather and Endorse CMI Strategic Plan at 6th Annual Meeting
Dec 08, 2014 / Highlight
December 8, 2014 – Marseille, France
The CMI held its sixth Annual Meeting, with high-level participation of its member (Egypt, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, Ville de Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, EIB, World Bank), and partners (AFD, GIZ, UFM, Banque de France, ISESCO, FEMISE, etc). The French...
CMI Participates in Youth Health Conference, within the Framework of the 5+5 Dialogue Forum
Dec 05, 2014 / Highlight
December 5, 2014 – Marseille, France
CMI Manager Mourad Ezzine, opened the final day of a two-day event on Youth Health in the Mediterranean which was organized by the French Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in the framework of the 5+5 Dialogue Forum. He presented the situation of health-related needs and the movements of skills and demand...
Against a Backdrop of Upheaval in Relations between both Sides of the Mediterranean: Tourism, Now More than Ever, Acts as a Driver of Integration, Closer Relations, Growth, Job Creation, and Environmental Protection
Nov 20, 2014 / Blog entry
By Agnès Levallois*
The desire to discuss tourism at the workshop organized jointly by the Provence Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Region and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) could, at first glance, seem surprising, if not out of place, in view of the situation in several southern Mediterranean countries. However, nothing could be further from...
Technical Experts Meet to Discuss Study on “Delivery Mechanisms and Institutions to Realize Energy Efficiency Potential"
Oct 16, 2014 / Highlight
The countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) boasts 57% of the world’s proven oil reserves (World Bank), in addition to other resource-rich characteristics, such as their unique endowment with solar resources. However, and this is especially true in countries where oil and gas resources are large, they also generally face high energy...
Network of Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Developers
Oct 16, 2014 / Program
Lead Organizations
French Urban Authority Euroméditerranée in Marseille (EPAEM), Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI).
Partners
European Investment Bank, French Development Agency
Challenges
Through annual conferences, workshops and field visits on pilot projects, the Network aims at...
Leaders in Urban Transport Planning Training Sessions
Oct 13, 2014 / Highlight
“Leaders in Urban Transport Planning” (LUTP) training sessions were developed under the CMI Sustainable Urban Transport Program.
The LUTP capacity building program is offered by the World Bank on a regular basis in cooperation with several partners especially AFD for French speaking sessions. It is designed for high level policy officials and...
ARABTERM: A new online technical dictionary in Arabic, English, French, and German
Sep 03, 2014 / Blog entry
By Guido Zebisch*
ARABTERM is a quadrilingual technical dictionary offering glossaries in German, English and French and especially, the translation of terms along with an illustrated definition in Arabic (www.arabterm.org). The project is jointly commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the...
Experts’ Meeting: An Innovation Scoreboard for the MENA
Sep 03, 2014 / Highlight
The European Investment Bank (EIB) through the Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), in collaboration with ISESCO and UN-ESCWA Technology Center, organized a regional experts’ meeting on the 19th and 20th November 2014 at the League of The Arab States (LAS) in Cairo, Egypt. This meeting aimed to initiate and develop an innovation...
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