FEATURES

• The People behind the Projects - Interview with Stéphanie Horel - EuroMed Training of Public Administration
  28-01-2010
  
    Familiarising civil servants in Partner Countries with EU Affairs   The EuroMed Training of Public Administration Programme’s mission is to reinforce the management capacity of the civil service in Mediterranean Partner Countries and train their civil servants on European affair...
• Building for the future
  11-01-2010
  
  Reducing energy consumption is a key objective in the battle against climate change. In Syria, the EU-funded MED-ENEC project has combined inspiration from the past with cutting-edge technologies in a visionary new housing project that promises huge energy savings to its residents. &nbs...
• EuroMed Transport Project: The road to growth
  21-12-2009
  
  An integrated transport infrastructure is the linchpin for regional economic integration, leading to increased trade and growth in view of a future Euro-Mediterranean free trade area. At the centre of efforts to develop an effective infrastructure network is the EuroMed Transport Project, providin...
• Building the Motorways of the Sea
  10-12-2009
  
  Opening up great maritime highways linking the shores of the Mediterranean is a key challenge for the EU’s cooperation with its southern partners. But to build the motorways of the sea, it’s the small details that make a big difference. For the past three years, an EU-funded project...
• EGNOS airport security system shown in Morocco
  08-12-2009
  
  Boosting safety and management efficiency for the vehicles in and around the airport area is one of the advantages which could stem from the introduction of the European Global Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), the EU's first contribution to global satellite navigation and a precursor of Galileo....
• The People behind the Projects - Interview with Dalila Achour Limam - EuroMed Transport
  07-12-2009
  
  EuroMed Transport programme: Making an Impact on People’s Lives   The EuroMed Transport Programme is supporting the Partner Countries in achieving an efficient transport system, which will also impact on trade and regional economic integration. Its assistant manager, Dalila Achour-Lim...
• Guardians of Water: EuroMed Heritage project in Morocco and Tunisia
  01-12-2009
  
    The use of water touches at the heart of Mediterranean civilisation, a living memory of society’s relationship with its environment.  Yet water heritage is staring extinction in the face, buckling under the pressures of development and demographic change.   In the face of ...
• The People behind the Projects - Interview with Olivier Turcas - EuroMed Aviation
  24-11-2009
  
  Euromed Common Aviation Area: An economy booster The Euromed Aviation Project’s main mission is to prepare the way for the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean Common Aviation Area (EMCAA) as decided by the Euro-Med Transport Ministers in 2005 and outlined in the 2007 Regional Transport Action Pl...
• Collecting reliable statistics vital for the Euro-Med Partnership
  03-11-2009
  
  EU-funded MEDSTAT II programme highlights its work and achievements through videos and interviews with the people on the ground     Strengthening the capacity of the Mediterranean Partner Countries to collect updated, timely and relevant statistics, that ensure reliability and coheren...
• Environment Press Pack
  15-06-2009
  
  The ENPI Info Centre has produced a press pack on the EU’s efforts to integrate environmental considerations into its cooperation with Neighbourhood Partners, both in the ENPI East and the ENPI South regions.   The package includes: A background note outlining the environmental c...
• Iron Ladies from Palestine
  20-05-2009
  
  The Euromed Women’s programme yields results. In partnership with the European Union, local Palestinian and Israeli organizations, including the Palestinian Media and Development Institute, the Jerusalem Women Association in East Jerusalem, and the Herzliya-based Center for Jewish-Arab Economi...
• Carla Montesi: Gender equality a fundamental pillar of development
  05-03-2009
  
  New EuropeAid Regional Programme for Enhancing Women’s Equality within the Euro-Med Partnership framework   A new regional programme for women’s equality within the Euro-Mediterranean partnership is aiming to achieve tangible results in the battle against discrimination and viol...
• The MEDA Water Programme Substantially boosted Regional Cooperation in Water Management
  19-12-2008
  
  Executed by: 69 organizations, 20 NGOs, 23 universities, 16 research institutes, 9 government agencies   Interview with the technical coordinator Gert Soer   The MEDA Water Programme has given an enormous boost to regional cooperation between different actors in the field of water ma...
• New experiences for Jordan Youth
  01-12-2008
  
  Thousands of youth from all shores of the Mediterranean and Europe have gathered under the umbrella of the Euro-Med Youth Programme and the Salto Euromed Resource Centre. Through youth exchanges, training courses, seminars and voluntary service they burrowed into different topics and issues affectin...
• Euromed Transport: Linking the dots
  21-11-2008
  
  A Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area with truly integrated economic systems is a grand ambition. However, many sectors need work before this goal can possibly be achieved; and transportation is one of them. The Euro-Med Transport Programme is discussing the situation from regional and local perspect...
• The active contribution of the Himaya Madanya
  14-11-2008
  
  The EuroMed programme aimed at the reduction, prevention and management of natural catastrophes and those caused by man came to an end on 31 March 2008. Joint president of the operational committee, the Algerian civil protection agency has been actively involved in this intermediary programme. ...
• Preparing tomorrow's olive oil!
  07-11-2008
  
  Innovation and daring, these are what the Medibtikar programme, developed by the European Union, wants to use to improve the quality of Tunisian olive oil. The outcome will be better adaptation to current and future international standards in this field, and an increase in sales that could be as hig...
• EU connecting Arab and European Gas Markets
  31-10-2008
  
  A project that helps develop energy, boost the economy and creates regional links. In Syria there are three priority areas: infrastructure, regulatory framework and transfer of knowledge and skills.   By All4Syria.org    ...
• EU Helps Palestinians to cope with water scarcity problem. Yet, more needs to be done
  24-10-2008
  
  Water shortage is a crucial problemof biggest concern for Palestinians.Oneway to deal with this crisis is adequate treatment of wastewater that would limit the deterioration of existing freshwater resources. Different partners from across the borders of Middle Eastern countries, including Palestine,...
• Immigrant children at night
  17-10-2008
  
  Small groups of children, aged 12-18, wandering in the streets, sitting on park benches. Their parents are immigrants. They themselves arrived in Israel at a young age, but still feel alienated from their environment. Not only is the weather different than it was in the Former Soviet Union, but the ...
• Women for Women
  10-10-2008
  
  The project "Economic Empowerment for Palestinian Women: Turning Business Ideas into Reality", has trained 125 Palestinian women entrepreneurs from Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus and Bethlehem, 100 Palestinian women entrepreneurs with existing business, and 250 women entrepreneurs (both Arab a...
• A satellite tracing system for Tunisian merchant shipping
  30-09-2008
  
  As part of the Euro-Mediterranean Satellite Navigation project financed by the European Union, a test run of the GNSS system enabling satellite tracing of merchant shipping was carried out in Tunisia. It’s a win-win partnership that benefits both the EU, by enabling it to validate the EGNOS sy...
• Hydraulic challenges and European partnership
  10-09-2008
  
  7000 hectares of cultivated fields surrounding Moroccan towns are irrigated with untreated waste water and out of 72 waste water treatment stations in the country, only half are actually operational. This situation was disclosed thanks to MEDAWARE, one of the five projects benefiting Morocco under t...
• Greenhouse project: Where filmmakers meet
  03-09-2008
  
  A project funded through the Euromed Audiovisual II programme brings together filmmakers from Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Turkey. While being trained and supported in their documentaries, the Greenhouse project offers them a platform from where they exchange experiences and views. It...
• From Beirut to El-Mina, they want the same thing - ARCHIMEDES II
  31-07-2008
  
  From Beirut to El-Mina, they want the same thing - ARCHIMEDES II   In spite of political instability and war, the project sends a message of hope to the Lebanese people. ARCHIMEDES, a project within the framework of European-Mediterranean cooperation, was launched under the MED-PACT programme...
• Project for energy efficiency in the building sector
  15-07-2008
  
  In Algeria, social-economic development in rural areas is one of the priorities of the local authorities. Nearly 450,000 housing units are currently being erected in regions that have suffered from Islamic terrorism. Thanks to the European MED-ENEC project, the National Centre for Studies and Inte...
• Olive mill waste: a source of concern for the environment
  05-06-2008
  
  An EU-funded project backs efforts to find common solutions in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and set up an integrated management system. There will be higher economic benefits and cost reductions if clean production choices are adopted, says the Projects National Director in Syria. ...
• Today we are invited to take part in all of the decisions taken in our village
  23-05-2008
  
    At least 3,000 women have benefitted from the “female entrepreneurs in the Mediterranean” project to date. This project was launched in January 2006 thanks to EU funding, creating a non-financial service where the Lebanese development association, Al Majmoua, focuses exclusively ...
• EMWIS Algeria: the winning team
  28-04-2008
  
  The Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System, or EMWIS, is an online network with the objective of facilitating information exchange in the water sector. Thirty-seven European andMediterranean countries are participating in this network which currently has fourteen national web sites up and runni...
• The future is smart
  23-02-2008
  
  Medibtikar encourages Euro-Med cooperation in high-tech sector: one long-standing ambition of the Egyptian Government was to create a high-tech environment that would welcome the most prominent international companies. The vision has now become reality through the Smart Village, just north of Cairo,...