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Tunisia and Greece join forces on the Sustainable Blue Economy in the Mediterranean
A new strategic agreement between Greek and Tunisian maritime clusters represents an official gateway to boost the blue economy between the western and eastern Mediterranean. On 19 February 2024, During the 2nd Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Stakeholders Conference in Athens, the Cluster Maritime Tunisien (CMT) and Greek Strategis Maritime ICT Cluster (SMICT), signed a […]
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The WestMED welcomes its new Portuguese Co-presidency – A message from the co-chair
As of 2024, Portugal will co-chair the WestMED Steering Committee for 2 years. It will do so together with Mauritania that had already assumed this position in 2023. This will be in accordance with the principle of rotation among the participating countries of the WestMED Initiative. Portugal will take over the baton from Malta that […]
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The European Blue Forum Stakeholder Position Papers are out!
The European Blue Forum consisting of stakeholders from all 5 EU sea basins has published its first 2 Position papers related to key issues concerning the European Seas Paper 1: What do we need from European Seas by 2030, and are we asking too much? Paper 2: What does a fossil fuel free sustainable blue […]
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WestMED Success Story. The power of Accelerators – meet GALATEA, the Blue Growth Accelerator
Project Funding support In the Mediterranean region, the main sources of investments in the sustainable blue economy include public funding opportunities offered by international organisations, governments, Multilateral Development Banks and “green funds”. Such funding is offered in the form of grants or lending instruments aimed at co-financing projects and providing support to infrastructure development, start-ups […]
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Apply for a stand at the EMD exhibition!
The last time stakeholders had the possibility to get together as exhibitors was in 2023. The European Commission, the City of Svendborg and the Danish Maritime Authority are happy to be able to offer this possibility once again and to give stakeholders the chance to showcase their projects and initiatives in an exhibition. All corresponding […]
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