Agriculture andt Agro-food Industry

IPEMED partner of the Paris International Agricultural Show 2014: Fostering agriculture and food security partnerships in the Mediterranean

Economic crisis in France and Europe, political and socio -economic transition in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries ... Both shores of the Mediterranean face emergencies and challenges that must be addressed on common grounds. A highly integrated Mediterranean region can provide both...

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Points Of View

Taking action

Create cooperation based on inter-dependence: that was one of the conclusions of the IPEMED report on Europe-Mediterranean-North African relations. Yet to achieving it will involve concrete measures. What can be done to give new impetus to relations between the two sides of the Mediterranean?...

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 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 on the theme of co-sourcing.The debate gave numerous business leaders and institutional representatives an opportunity to share their experience and give concrete meaning to the concept of...

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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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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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EMCC Forum - 2013

The economic complementarities and the geographic and cultural proximity between Europe and South and East Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) offer opportunities that are to be seized together. In...
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  • Philippe de FONTAINE VIVE
  • Tariq SIJILMASS
  • Kamel OUNADJELA
  • Khater ABI HABIB
  • Youssef ROUISSI
  • Charles IFRAH
  • Pr. Adel EL-BELTAGY