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The Mediterranean Region and the New International Context. Current trends and future challenges
  • Paper

The Mediterranean Region and the New International Context. Current trends and future challenges

This report addresses two main questions: What are the main current challenges in the Mediterranean region? And, which economic, political and social aspects of the Mediterranean region are unlikely to change in the short-to-medium term?

23 April 2025
Climate Crisis and Gender Equality: Emerging Security Risks in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
  • Policy Study

Climate Crisis and Gender Equality: Emerging Security Risks in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

This MedWE policy study focuses on a critical and timely intersection: gender equality and climate change.

5 March 2025
Science as a Bridge: The Evolving Role of Research and Innovation in Euro-mediterranean Cooperation
  • Policy Study

Science as a Bridge: The Evolving Role of Research and Innovation in Euro-mediterranean Cooperation

This policy study explores different aspects of Euro-Mediterranean research cooper­ation, offering perspectives from policy-makers, scientists, and stakeholders actively engaged in shaping the region’s research landscape.

11 February 2025
Acción colectiva, polarización y nuevas vulnerabilidades. Prioridades interculturales de la red española de la Fundación Anna Lindh
  • Policy Study

Acción colectiva, polarización y nuevas vulnerabilidades. Prioridades interculturales de la red española de la Fundación Anna Lindh

This policy paper includes the work of experts from the Spanish Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, who are observers and actors in real contact with social challenges.

11 February 2025
Migration Governance Capacities for Mediterranean Cities: A Strategic Urban Agenda of the Next Decade
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Migration Governance Capacities for Mediterranean Cities: A Strategic Urban Agenda of the Next Decade

This report is the result the symposium “Migration governance capacities for Mediterranean cities: a strategic urban agenda for the next decade” held in Barcelona in October 2024.

25 January 2025
Policy Impacts of the Climate Change Conferences in the Mediterranean
  • Policy Study

Policy Impacts of the Climate Change Conferences in the Mediterranean

A report by IEMed, FNF MADRID and eco-union presented at the COP29 in Baku (2024).

14 November 2024
Renewable Energy and Electricity Interconnection Megaprojects in North Africa: Prospects for Euro-North Africa Cooperation
  • Policy Study

Renewable Energy and Electricity Interconnection Megaprojects in North Africa: Prospects for Euro-North Africa Cooperation

This Joint Policy Study delves into North Africa’s renewable energy landscape, examining the potential and challenges of megaprojects in the region.

21 July 2024
Towards Inclusive Mediterranean Economies: Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Region
  • Policy Study

Towards Inclusive Mediterranean Economies: Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Region

In this first publication of the MedWE programme, the IEMed and the Union for the Mediterranean aim to contribute to applied research on the crucial area of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

27 May 2024
Prevention Measures against Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in the MENA and Balkans
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Prevention Measures against Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in the MENA and Balkans

This report of the CONNEKT project on prevention measures are based on the case study reports on the prevention factors at the local level in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia.

21 May 2024
Prevention Guidelines for Local Authorities in the MENA and the Balkans
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Prevention Guidelines for Local Authorities in the MENA and the Balkans

These prevention guidelines, developed for the benefit of local authorities in their efforts to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism (VE), are based on the research that the CONNEKT team have completed in the Middle East and North Africa (MEN...

21 May 2024
The unexplored potential of the EU as a mediator of PCVE efforts across its neighbourhood
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The unexplored potential of the EU as a mediator of PCVE efforts across its neighbourhood

This policy paper is fruit of the results gathered through primary data collection but also of a dialogue among researchers, experts, practitioners, state officials, civil society actors and local community representatives within the framework of the...

21 May 2024
Infrastructures, energy and digitalisation: pillars for the sustainable development of transport in the Western Mediterranean
  • Policy Study

Infrastructures, energy and digitalisation: pillars for the sustainable development of transport in the Western Mediterranean

This Policy Study by IEMed and CETMO aims at giving response to the challenges posed by climate change in the region and how the transport sector can counter it and adapt to it through digitalisation, the transformation and connection of transport wi...

26 February 2024