On December 12, 2024, the 20th meeting of the 5+5 Dialogue defense initiative took place in Madrid, under the presidency of Spain. Discussions focused on the work carried out in 2024, particularly in the fight against terrorism and climate change, as well as projections for 2025, the year in which Tunisia will assume the presidency [...]
On Friday, December 6, 2024, the 6th Ministerial Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue on Research, Innovation, and Higher Education took place in Lisbon, chaired by the Portuguese Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, Mr. Fernando Alexandre, and co-chaired by Mauritania. The conference, titled “Fostering Integration for an Innovative, Inclusive, and Resilient Western Mediterranean Region: Science [...]
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 means to explore the parameters that impact the sustainability and competitiveness of the transport sector in the Western Mediterranean Region, the IEMed [...]
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 meeting to discuss the work carried out in 2023 and set a common 2024 agenda for the 5+5 Defence Initiative, which [...]
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 strategies that are being adopted nowadays will certainly define both the organisation of transport and logistics in the region in the medium [...]
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 of the ten member states of this Dialogue (Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Malta) met to assess the [...]
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 which was held on 7 and 8 November at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Under the title “Tapping the potential of [...]
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 to organise a thematic seminar in the framework of the MedThink 5+5 network on blue economy in the Western Mediterranean on 7 and 8 November [...]
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 Italy, with the participation of Ministers from Spain, France, Italy, Malta and Portugal, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, and Tunisia, as well as representatives of the [...]
"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 title in Valencia on 10 March 2022. The Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of Spain, Teresa Ribera, chaired [...]