Below, you will find an overview of the articles that have been posted by the communications team
During the last quarter, two WestMED National Events have taken place online in Spain and Morocco, and a dedicated workshop on the initiative was held within the Business2Sea conference organized by Fórum Oceano. WestMED National Event Spain | 23 September 2020 The event “Opportunities for the Blue Economy in the Western Mediterranean” was held […]
Building upon a strong networking activity during its first two years of implementation, the WestMED Assistance Mechanism is promoting the organization of a closed meeting on November 30th to pave the way for the development of an integrated maritime clusters network within the Western Mediterranean. Maritime clusters are essential actors in fostering the aggregation of […]
The vulenrability of the tourism sector is a common challenge which requires joint solutions. There is thus scope in building partnerships in order to find effective solutions as well as identifying lessons as a means of building resilience. The webinar on the ICT services for post Covid-19 blue tourism (on November 10, 2020) in the […]
Deadline: 2 February 2021 Budget: €5.000.000 This call for proposals aims to fund two pilot projects focused on building alliances among traditional and tech-savvy SMEs through industrial cluster organisations in order to promote SME collaboration and technology adoption within specific industrial ecosystems. The final objective of this call is to contribute to a wider spreading […]
It is our greatest pleasure to bring to your attention the recent ‘Report on the Blue economy for local and regional authorities in the Mediterranean’, adopted by the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) in January 2020. The publication is available in English, French and Arabic at the Mediterranean Blue Economy Stakeholder Platform (https://medblueconomyplatform.org/resources/library/ ).
Study for the implementation of regulation (EU)2015/757 on the monitoring, reporting and verification of CO2 emissions from maritime transport | General information The call for tenders was published the 02/09/2020. In February 2019, the Commission adopted a proposal to revise Regulation (EU) 2015/757. The objective of this proposal is to align the EU MRV system, […]
General information The call for tender was published the 21st of August 2020. The objectives of this open tender is to provide a platform for exchange of information, best practices and synergies between EMFF funded projects in a structures way, that will set up and develop a process for evaluating and clustering EMFF financed projects. […]
This article was first published on the European Commission’s website. The Green Deal call will mobilise research and innovation to foster a just and sustainable societal transition aiming at ‘leaving nobody behind’. Projects are expected to deliver tangible and visible results relatively quickly and show how research and innovation can provide concrete solutions for the Green […]
The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) is launching this call for tenders for further development and maintenance of the European Marine Observation and Data Network. The European Commission’s proposal for a green deal resets the Commission’s commitment to achieving zero emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 with economic growth decoupled from resource […]
This call was first published on the UfM Secretariat’s website. The UfM Secretariat has launched the UfM Grant Scheme for Employment Promotion in view of the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. The Grant Scheme has been set in order to support not-for-profit organizations with projects aiming at promoting employment in the UfM Region. The economic consequences of […]