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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Report
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 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
- 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
- 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
- Report
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
- Report
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
- Report
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
- 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