Martin SCHULZ, Arnaud MONTEBOURG and Radhi MEDDEB.
Seminars And Symposiums

Co-sourcing in the Mediterranean: a response to the crisis?

On 6 December 2012, IPEMED partnered with Jeune Afrique and La Tribune to organize a major debate entitled “Co-sourcing in the Mediterranean: a Response to the Crisis?” at the La Poste Headquarters. The debate gave a number of business leaders and institutional representatives an opportunity...

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 Co-sourcing is inspired from Germany’s experience with Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs).
Points Of View

Co-sourcing: a new partnership model

Co-sourcing fosters economic integration through production and sharing the value chain. It should create advantages for each stakeholder. It can move in a North to South direction, South to North, or South to South. A look at the determining factors. Deep crisis calls for new, sometimes...

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Points Of View

Connecting co-sourcing and co-production

Although situated at European level, it is important to point out that the EU’s industrial specialization in general (despite essentially depending on that of France and Germany) corresponds to the needs of southern Mediterranean economies: i.e. energy, the food industry, equipment goods, the...

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 Constantine University. Algeria offers courses in fields concerned by co-sourcing.
Points Of View

Co-sourcing: an opportunity for Algeria

Thinking, promoting and sharing the concept of co-sourcing requires support and commitment from everyone. This means that, from the start, this new approach should be based on joint foundations, a “perspective of meaning” shared by all those involved. To achieve this, co-sourcing must be seen as...

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Points Of View

Regional integration is key to growth

The major preoccupation for both North and South of the Mediterranean is to create growth to fulfil inhabitants’ expectations and give them a perspective for the future. Time, perhaps, to give the Union for the Mediterranean a new lease of life? That’s the ambition of its Secretary-General,...

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Agriculture And Rural Development

FOOD SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: Courses of action to tackle this major challenge

In a completely new context of political, social and economic transition, Arab Mediterranean Countries (AMCs) are faced with increasing food security challenges. This situation, complicated further by climate change, must more than ever be analyzed in line with geostrategic considerations. A...

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 Women in Sous (southern Morocco) shelling argan nuts. The status of family labour needs to be discussed
Agriculture And Rural Development

FOOD SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: Euro-Mediterranean countries obviously complementary

Which features and targets in Ipemed’s suggested agricultural food policy could lay the foundations for regional food security?Trends in the eleven countries that make up the South and East Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) indicate significant food insecurity, with deficits that could go as high...

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 The escalation of diabetes is a concern for Arab countries. Here, a diabetes awareness day in Bougaa (Sétif region, Algeria)
Agriculture And Rural Development

FOOD SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: Public health concern

The steep rise in foodrelated health problems has put the human health issue high on the list of global concerns.Recent debates on food security, nutrition and health have contributed to moving these topics higher up in the list of development programme priorities. These include the impact of...

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Reports & Synthesis

Establish trust : Ipemed’s five year review

Ipemed, as a think thank dedicated to bringing the two sides of the Mediterranean  closer  through economics, produced and defended, with the support of figures from both North and South, a great number of ideas since 2006. To take stock of its achievements, Ipemed publishes its first...

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