Actualités Portugal

WestMED featured at the Blue Economy Partnership Forum 2025 in Malta

The Blue Economy Partnership Forum, held in Malta on 24–25 April 2025, brought together around 20 participants from across the Mediterranean region, as part of WestMED’s supported CallMeBlue initiative. It was an invite-only event, co-organised by the ANIMA Investment Network and Malta Enterprise, and taking place back-to-back to the EU Startup Summit. The event aimed […]

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WestMED Success Story. Maritime Clusters – meet MedBAN, the Mediterranean Blue Acceleration Network

A sustainable Blue Economy requires support to promote and uptake innovation, knowledge, skills as well as access to finance, which is effective and locally-grounded. This is possible through joint actions promoted by socio-economic and institutional actors at local, national and subregional level. In this respect, maritime clusters (a network of companies, organizations, and institutions involved […]

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UfM and Interreg NEXT MED renew commitment to tackle regional challenges together

12 March 2025, Barcelona – The Union for the Mediterranean and Interreg NEXT MED, the largest EU-funded transnational cooperation programme promoting socioeconomic development and environmental initiatives in the Mediterranean Basin, have reached an agreement formally extending collaboration between both parties for at least another three years. The Memorandum of Understanding, which highlights how both Euro-Mediterranean […]

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La Tunisie assure la coprésidence de l’initiative WestMED

La République tunisienne, représentée par le ministère des Affaires étrangères, de la Migration et des Tunisiens à l’étranger et le Secrétariat général de la mer, assure la coprésidence de l’initiative WestMED pour une économie bleue durable en Méditerranée occidentale de janvier 2025 à décembre 2026. Compte tenu de son fort engagement en faveur des principes […]

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Launch of S3 Thematic partnership “Shipbuilding Propulsion Systems Alliance” with 26 partners from 3 EU sea basins

Maritime transport and Ports probably represent the core sector, to win the challenge of sustainability of the Blue Economy, considering its impact in terms of Gross Value Added (GVA) and jobs creation across the EU and its neighbouriung regions. Greening the EU maritime transport is therefore pivotal to ‘green’ the EU blue economy at large […]

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WestMED Stakeholders gather in Portugal for a 3-day agenda on the Blue Economy

Three full days have been dedicated to enhancing synergies among key actors in the Mediterranean basin: The WestMED Steering Comittee (SC) on October 1, The UfM Regional Platform on the Blue Economy on October 2, and the WestMED Hackathon on October 3, 2024. WestMED Steering Committee The WestMED Steering Committee (SC) was hosted by the […]