This is the story of Lucia Cobes, a young woman from Spain. A testimony of how a woman can carry on the family business and transmit it to her daughter, in spite of a male oriented sector and in spite of a society that keeps asking "where is your brother?" and making comments like "Ah, it's good you had a boy! That's great, so at least you have someone who could take over the family land".

The COMMON project celebrates the World Turtle Day with its Tunisian team of National Institute of Science and Technology of the Sea (INSTM), in collaboration with the Oceanographic Museum of Salammbô, known as the appellation “Dar El Hout”, with an info day and a release of a Caretta caretta turtle.

The financial crisis, as well as the unstable financial and political situation in many Mediterranean Partner Countries, sorely tested the applied economic model. Furthermore, around 15 million persons (migrants and refugees) born in a third country currently live in the region and need to find a job or enter the education system.

American University of Beirut (AUB), one of the partners of the NAWAMED project, based in Beirut (Lebanon) has published a public call for selecting an event management firm in charge of managing four national stakeholders' meetings in relation to NAWAMED project WP5. 

Deadline for receiving bids is 27/05/2021.

For more information, please follow this link: https://www.aub.edu.lb/pca/Pages/Bids.aspx

ESMES project has selected six public schools in Italy as part of the school contest to raise awareness of building energy consumption among students. After the selection process was done, the smart meters were installed by an external contractor to start the monitoring of energy consumption in real-time.

The Chamber of Achaia, Greek partner of the MEDSt@rts project, is looking for a tender to organise 7 Web Local Forums.

The events will be dedicated to microfinance and microcredit actors, who can effectively contribute to support new entrepreneurial paths and to the define a cross-border strategy for financial inclusion. 

After the first round of applications, our Egyptian partner Alexandria Business Association (ABA) has extended the deadline of their call for entrepreneurs to allow more young entrepreneurs to submit their ideas and projects and join the GIMED community.

The FISH MED NET project is pleased to share with you its new presentation brochure. This project, funded by the European Union, acts for the development of the blue economy and responsible fishing in the Mediterranean. It also aims to provide support to the artisanal fishing sector, with the aim of seizing opportunities for diversification and integration into other sectors. This new brochure is a summary of key information, which will reveal all the themes, figures, challenges and objectives of the project.

The Tunisian Farmer's Syndicate (SYNAGRI) based in Tunisia, partner of the ORGANIC ECOSYSTEM project, extends the deadline for the call for applications to select 10 operators, SMEs and innovative projects working in Tunisia for an intense 5-day training course delivered by national and international experts in order to improve the skills on different issues relevant in the development of innovative projects such as management, techniques, marketing, certifications, exports.

An Najah National University is launching two calls for tender with the aim to acquire and install a Solar Photovoltaic Carport system and a Solar Power Tree to be installed in the New Campus of the university in Palestine.