Participating in a conference on “Fostering Innovative Alliances in the Western Mediterranean: A Basin of Opportunities for a Sustainable Future” held on 1-2 July in La Valletta (Malta),
MEDREG, represented by Ms. Lenzi (Secretariat),
presented the organisation’s work on electricity networks and RES auctions in the panel on "
Energy efficiency and transition in the Western Mediterranean".
The following debate highlighted the
need to de-politicize energy cooperation in the region and
ensure that experts, the industry and NGOs can have the time and means to fine-tune their activities. MEDREG will therefore be involved in these future initiatives.
The conference was co-organized by IEMED and UfM in the context of the MedThink 5+5 network which is an initiative that seeks to consolidate the sub-regional network of think tanks that was established in May 2016 with the support of more than thirty institutions from the ten Western Mediterranean countries of the 5+5 Dialogue: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Libya and
Tunisia.
The MedThink 5+5 works around the Western Mediterranean Forum, its ministerial
formats and high-level working groups by cementing a useful partnership with public
officials, regional cooperation organisations and civil society with the goal of serving as a practical model for greater regional cooperation.
This Forum
explored innovative ways to establish cooperation alliances.
The first session of the conference, a more institutional roundtable, was devoted to the
unifying role of the 5+5 Dialogue in allowing for a
more comprehensive Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation, following the “Sommet des Deux Rives”. The second and third sessions were devoted to the
consolidation of an environmentally-friendly and resilient socioeconomic model, the lodestones of which could be the Blue Economy and energy efficiency. Finally, the fourth session focused on the
formation of new alliances within the 5+5 Dialogue and the Mediterranean region at large.
All presentations are available on the
IPEMED website