JMed: 19 projects selected under the 1st call for projects
Published on 16 March 2021 at 15:49 - Modified the 2 August 2024 at 03:01
In the Spring 2020, the Principality of Monaco and France, in partnership with IECD, launched a first call for projects “Supporting youth in the Western Mediterranean” to create new opportunities for youth on both shores. From the 180 projects put forward, JMed selected 19, some of which initiated action as early as Autumn 2020.
A French-Monegasque initiative to support civil society for the benefit of youth.
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With the Covid-19 pandemic undermining the Mediterranean network of associations and exacerbating youth employability issues and unemployment, this initiative is aimed at strengthening ties between both sides of the Mediterranean by supporting projects geared towards youth in eleven countries (Monaco and Dialogue 5+5 countries, i.e. Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia) on education, socio-economic integration, mobility and the social and solidarity-based economy.
The joint undertaking is part of a cooperation approach to promote a new positive agenda for sustainable, economic and human development in the Mediterranean, launched in Marseille by the Summit of the Two Shores (24th June 2019).
19 projects to help the most vulnerable youth in the Mediterranean.
A sign of the vitality of Mediterranean civil society, a total of 334 organisations put forward 180 projects.
The 19 winning projects have strong local roots, incorporate a sustainable development goal and show sensitivity to issues of this type. They each propose a concrete way of responding to inevitable problems encountered by the most vulnerable youth in the Western Mediterranean. Three key thematic areas have emerged in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania, all three countries partners of the Monaco Cooperation, with a view to the socio-economic integration of youth: the promotion of sustainable development activities in rural areas, the development of innovative educational paths and reflection on a new form of sustainable and solidarity-based tourism.
The organisations offered support will be implementing their proposals between October 2020 and December 2021. The European Institute for Cooperation and Development (IECD), capitalising on its expertise and three decades of action to promote development, will be providing them technical support. Symbols of cooperation in the Western Mediterranean, these projects will be run by a “South-North” consortium of associations.
The success of this first edition paves the way for a promising future and marks the beginning of French-Monegasque cooperation to serve youth in the Mediterranean.