Regional Cooperation Neighbourhood South

The European Journalism Symposium offered a unique venue to address the challenges and opportunities journalists in the Southern Neighbourhood are facing today

The UfM Foreign Affairs Ministers agreed on the need to further intensify regional cooperation and integration by tackling the main challenges the Mediterranean region is currently facing and by endorsing a ministerial declaration on the accession of North Macedonia to the UfM

This online academy offered a unique opportunity to foster internationalization by exploiting digital marketing tools and allowed the participants to put into practice tools and strategies of digital marketing to provide new services and support activists to the SMEs they accompany

This workshop put at the center trade in services and investment facilitation by addressing relevant topics for the country such as trade flows in services, restrictions on trade in services, and plurilateral WTO negotiations on investment facilitation

The Global Cultural Relations Programme Reunion offered a unique opportunity to exchange about cultural sectors around the globe and share ideas and experiences in order to boost cross-cultural collaboration in the cultural field

The public-private dialogue organised by the OECD highlighted the relevance of enhancing access to finance for Palestinian SMEs as well as the need to look for priority reforms enabling so by advancing the green and digital transition agenda

A crucial event hosted by EMCDDA took place in the margins of Lisbon Addictions 2022, putting the spotlight on cross-border challenges posed by drug trafficking in the ENP region

This Tabadool Dialogue highlighted the need to mainstream gender across policies and regulations that facilitate access to finance for MSMEs

The new EU - EIB agreement to support high-speed fibre-optic connection under the Mediterranean as part of the MEDUSA project represents a big leap forward in order to increase digital connectivity with the Southern Neighbourhood partners

From 21 – 22 November, ECDC hosted the Annual meeting of the National ECDC Correspondents in the European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries and the MediPIET National Focal Points in Stockholm, Sweden.The meeting provided an opportunity for participants to look back at the activities of the regional cooperation under the EU Initiative on Health Security (EU-HSI) and to discuss the outcomes and achievements obtained in 2022 and planned activities for 2023

The event was focused on the importance of European youth in building a greener, digital, sustainable, and inclusive future, and helping the growth of entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Mediterranean region

The Euromed Police 3rd Strategic Cooperation Forum focused on criminal threats ranging from cyberattacks and financial crimes to migrant smuggling, trafficking in human beings and drugs as well as cooperation instruments to fight them

This Academy organised by ASCAME with the collaboration of the EBSOMED project represented an initiative to deal with innovation and digital by bringing together policy makers, entrepreneurs and academics from the Mediterranean region and beyond

The Final Conference of the EuroMed Rail ERA and EuroMed partner countries to take stock on project achievements. The project contributed to increase knowledge and understanding of EU and international railway legislation and standards.

DG NEAR is keen on supporting the development, production and dissemination of reliable and comparable statistical data in the Southern Neighbourhood by supporting the institutional capacity of our partner countries