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Expert panel on stage during WestMED workshop at SeaFuture 2025. Masauda Abuarosha speaking and projected in the back

WestMED’s Maritime Cluster Alliance at SeaFuture 2025

Within the framework of the 9th edition of SEAFUTURE in La Spezia, Italy, WestMED once again contributed to the success of the event, with a workshop on 2 October 2025. This workshop was dedicated to the multiple and diversified ways to do clustering and help local ecosystems exploit their potential. During the workshop many leading […]

EU Sea Basins Assistance Mechanism strengthens Maritime Cooperation

Copyright photo: Simon Pugh EU Sea Basin Assistance Mechanism gathers experts from 15 countries to discuss maritime regional cooperation in Europe’s Atlantic facade, the Western Mediterranean and the Black Sea On 25 September 2025, alongside the Macro-Regional and Sea Basins Strategies Days, a dedicated networking event was held in Brussels for the National Hubs of […]

panel on stage with speaker during the 2025 paths that last sustainable Tourism Conference in Croatia

WestMED’s Technical Group on Sustainable Tourism participates in the Interreg Tourism Conference ‘Paths that Last’

200 participants | 8 Programme Organisers | approx 90 Projects | 5 workshops On 25–26 June 2025, the WestMED’s Technical Group on Sustainable Tourism through the National Hub for Malta (Stephanie Vella), participated in an event held in Split, Croatia, under the Mediterranean Multi-Programme Mechanism titled “Paths That Last – Collaborating for a Sustainable Tourism in […]

Closing of the POWER4MED Project & Launch of GREENMEDPORT & SHARE4MED projects: A New Milestone Toward Carbon Neutrality in the Mediterranean Maritime Sector

Based on the press release from the Algerian Press Service Oran, Algeria-3 July 2025 The WestMED supported POWER4MED project, designed to support the energy transition of small ports and ships in the western Mediterranean, officially came to an end on Wednesday in Oran, at an international conference attended by researchers, decision-makers and economic operators from […]

Group picture with people posing at workshop

Workshop and major report on Aligning Aquaculture and Fisheries for Sustainable Investment in Libya

Tunis, June 18 – 21, 2025 Under the supervision of the Libyan Maritime Cluster and organized by the African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), a National Consultative Workshop was held in Tunis from 18 to 21 June 2025. The workshop was titled: “National Consultative Workshop for Validation of the Consultancy for Alignment of […]

meeting with people seated at table against a United Nations Ocean Conference backdrop

UNOC3 Summit ‘For a More Connected Mediterranean’

On 9 June 2025, the Heads of State and Government and high representatives of Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Tunisia and the EU on the invitation of the President of the French Republic, gathered at the summit “For a More Connected Mediterranean”, on the sidelines of the third United Nations Ocean Conference. […]