A training seminar by UEMF and the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies (FMES) on the shared challenges, risks and opportunities of the two shores of the Mediterranean

Euromed University of Fes is organizing on its campus, from May 23 to 27, a training seminar organized with the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies (FMES), on a topic of common interest: "shared challenges, risks and opportunities of the two shores of the Mediterranean".

The objective of this seminar is to address these aspects from five different angles and to bring new strategic and operational recommendations.

1. Angle "defense and security": foreign and neighborhood policy and cybersecurity issues in the Mediterranean;
2. Environmental angle: environmental issues and SDGs in the Mediterranean;
3.  Economic angle: regional integration and economic partnership between the two shores of the Mediterranean;
4. Historical and cultural angle: cultural heritage, Mediterranean identities and intercultural dialogue;
5. Societal angle and cross perspectives: mobilities and migration flows, Women-Men equality.

The aim is to examine the academic aspects concerning the 5+5 dialogue which materializes the concept of a "western Mediterranean identity" and which promotes the exchange and sharing of ideas between young civilian graduates and officer cadets from the 5+5 countries. This event will see the participation of experts, regional specialists from the Euro-Mediterranean area and UEMF professor-researchers in Legal and Political Sciences, Human and Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence who will take part in facilitating workshops that promise rich, innovative and productive exchanges.

Beyond the exchange that this meeting will allow, the objective of this seminar is to identify avenues of reflection on the possibilities of rebuilding co-development relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean differently.