Policy Study: Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization in Transport

Changing global dynamics and emerging climate action imperatives are placing the Mediterranean region in the midst of a complex landscape, characterised by significant challenges and strategic opportunities for the transport sector. As a ...

4 March, 2024

19th Ministerial Meeting of the 5+5 Defence Initiative

The 19th ministerial meeting of the Defence Initiative of the 5+5 Dialogue took place last December 13, in Lisbon under Portuguese presidency. The representatives of the 10 member states of the dialogue attended the ...

14 December, 2023

Policy Study : Connectivity and Sustainability in Transport and Logistics

In the Western Mediterranean area, as well as in other regions of the world, we are witnessing an era of structural transformations that appear as an inflection point in which the decisions and ...

7 February, 2023

18th Ministerial Meeting of the 5+5 Defence Initiative

In the framework of the 5+5 Dialogue, the 18th meeting of the 5+5 Defence Initiative took place in Rabat, Morocco, on December 16, 2022. Under the Moroccan presidency, the defence ministers of nine ...

17 December, 2022

Towards a Sustainable Blue Economy in the Western Mediterranean

In the context of the 2022 Spanish co-presidency of the 5+5 Dialogue, the MedThink 5+5 network of Western Mediterranean think tanks organised a thematic seminar on sustainable blue economy in the Western Mediterranean ...

14 November, 2022

Next MedThink 5+5 Seminar in Lisboa to discuss Sustainable Blue Economy

In the context of the 2022 Spanish co-presidency of the 5+5 Dialogue, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) have teamed up ...

4 November, 2022

5th Ministerial Conference on Research, Innovation in Nouakchott

On 11 October 2022, the Mauritanian city of Nouakchott hosted the fifth Ministerial Conference of the “5+5 Dialogue on Research, Innovation, and Higher Education”, chaired by Mauritania and co-chaired by ...

4 November, 2022

Third Ministerial Meeting on Water of the 5+5 Dialogue in Valencia

"Water security and climate change in the Western Mediterranean: Fostering knowledge for practice": the third ministerial conference of the Western Mediterranean Forum (Dialogue 5+5) on Water was convened under this ...

14 March, 2022

Building Climate Resilience in the Western Mediterranean: Water and Climate Change

On the occasion of the third Ministerial Conference on Water of the Western Mediterranean Forum (Dialogue 5+5) held in the Palacio de las Artes of Valencia on 10th March 2022, the MedThink ...

14 March, 2022

Thematic Seminar "Water and Climate Change Adaptation Nexus"

On the occasion of the third Ministerial Conference on Water of the Western Mediterranean Forum (Dialogue 5+5) on 10 March 2022 in Valencia (Spain), convened under the Spanish co-presidency of ...

16 February, 2022

What prospects for the 5+5 Dialogue in a Mediterranean in transformation?

The 5th MedThink 5+5 Forum, held in Madrid on 13th and 14th October 2021, brought together more than 35 diplomats, practitioners, and experts from think tanks of the Member States of the ...

14 October, 2021

1st meeting of labour ministers of the 5 + 5 Dialogue in Alicante

The Spanish co-presidency of the 5 + 5 Dialogue organised the first ministerial conference on the theme of work, opening up a new field of sectoral cooperation within the Western Mediterranean Forum. The meeting, which ...

7 October, 2021

10th Meeting of the Group of Transport Ministers of the Western Mediterranean

Ministers of Transport of the ten countries of the 5+5 Dialogue met virtually to discuss developments in the transport sector in the Western Mediterranean. The meeting took place under the presidency of Malta ...

6 October, 2021

Thematic Webinar - Transport and Logistics

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted governments in the Western Mediterranean to take severe measures to curtail socio-economic activities over the last months which have impacted the transport and logistic sector. ...

5 October, 2021

Policy Study: Mediterranean Transport and Logistics in a Post-COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 has led to a major disruption of the transport system worldwide. In the Mediterranean region, it has acted as a catalyst for the trends that were already gaining a foothold in ...

14 September, 2021

New MedThink 5 + 5 webinar: Fostering women's economic participation

The MedThink 5 + 5 network organised an online conference on 7 May 2021 (12:00-14:00 CEST) devoted to the issue of fostering women's economic participation in the Western Mediterranean. Entitled ...

29 April, 2021

New Webinar MedThink 5+5: From Crisis to Recovery in the Western Mediterranean

With the aim to analyse the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis to better understand the challenges of the recovery in the countries of the Western Mediterranean, the MedThink 5+5 ...

12 November, 2020

16th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue

22 October 2020. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 10 countries of the 5+5 Dialogue of the Western Mediterranean gathered by videoconference on the occasion of the 16th Foreign ...

27 October, 2020

MedThink 5+5 Webinar: Towards a Strengthened Health Cooperation

Reflecting on the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Mediterranean, the MedThink 5+5 network brought together experts from different countries of the 5+5 Dialogue in a webinar ...

22 May, 2020

8th Ministerial Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue on Migration and Development

The 8th Ministerial Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue on Migration and Development, chaired by Morocco, took place in Marrakech on 1-2 March 2020. Marrakech, 1-2 March 2020. Ministers of ...

10 March, 2020

IV Med Think 5+5 Forum - Malta, 1-2 July 2019

More than 40 experts and representatives of think tanks and diplomatic institutions from the Member States of the 5+5 Dialogue have debated on how to foster an environmentally-friendly and resilient ...

3 July, 2019

IV MedThink 5+5 Forum in Malta

The IVth MedThink 5+5 Forum will be held in Malta between the 1st and 2nd of July, 2019 under the title “Fostering Innovative Alliances in the Western Mediterranean. A Basin of ...

30 April, 2019

Policy Study: The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in the Western Mediterranean

The Med Think 5+5 network releases its IV Policy Study, devoted to analysing the interaction between water, food and energy in the Mediterranean. This publication is the outcome of the ...

1 February, 2019

15th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue

The 15th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the “5+5 Dialogue” of the Western Mediterranean was held in Valleta on 18 January 2019, under the Maltese-Algerian co-Presidency on ...

22 January, 2019

Workshop: Transport and logistics in the Western Mediterranean

On the occasion of the 9th Conference of the Group of Western Mediterranean Ministers of Transport (GTMO) in Nouakchott, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) organised a workshop of ...

13 December, 2018

Celebration of the 9th GTMO 5+5 Meeting in Nouakchott

The 9th Ministerial meeting of Transports of the "Dialogue 5 + 5" was held in Nouakchott on 12th December within the framework of the Group of Ministers of Transports of ...

13 December, 2018

Workshop: Transport and logistics in the Western Mediterranean

Within the framework of cooperation between the Group of Ministers of Transport of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), the interconnection among the members of ...

7 November, 2018

Med Think 5+5 expert appointed Secretary of State of National Defense

Last Wednesday 17 October 2018 the President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa appointed Ana Santos Pinto as the new Secretary of State of Defense during a ...

22 October, 2018

CETMO signs an agreement for an observatory in the Strait of Gibraltar

On last August 8th, a new institutional agreement was signed to carry out a study of transport flows between Europe and Africa in order to improve transport between the two ...

9 August, 2018

III MedThink 5+5 Forum: With a view to the future

After the two previous forums in Barcelona 2016 and Lisbon 2017, the III MedThink 5+5 Forum was held at the El Aurassi Hotel in Algiers last 25-27 June 2018 under ...

2 July, 2018