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The MENA-OECD Days 2019 will be held in Tunis from 17th to 19th June 2019. The event will held the following meetings: the MENA-OECD Business Advisory Board (BAB) on 17th June, the Steering Group of the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Competitiveness on 18th June, and the 11th meeting of the MENA-OECD Working Group on SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy on 19th June.

The 2014-2020 ENI CBC MED has opened its Call for Strategic Project Proposals with 7 thematic priorities and a contribution available for this call of about €68.5 million. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 3rd July 2019.

This Call for Strategic Project Proposals will be centred on the following thematics:

Organised by the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona and the Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASCAME) with the support of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the Mediterranean Summit on Logistics and Transport will hold its 17th edition on 26th and 27th June within the framework of the InTrade Summit BCN, which will take place as part of the leading Trade Fair for Logistics, Transport, Intralogistics and Supply Chain of Southern Europe (SIL 2019).

ASCAME celebrated the 2nd EBSOMED Executive Committee & Working Group and presented its activities. The second meeting of the Executive Committee of the EBSOMED project has been held on December 13th 2018, in Brussels.

ASCAME organised the BCN EBSOMED Academy 2018: Support and Improve the Quality of Business Support Organisations (BSO) & Promote BSO Networking, on November 21st and 22nd, 2018, in Barcelona, Spain. It was organised in the framework of the MedaWeek Barcelona.

The Blue Growth community (Interreg Med) organized its mid-term conference entitled “Blue Economy: The Blue Way of Life”, which served as a platform to reinforce Mediterranean cooperation and to present the state of the art of the current initiatives developed in the blue economy framework

The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), the European Commission (EC), the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kingdom of Morocco and the Euromed University of Fes (UEMF) jointly organise a regional seminar on “Horizon 2020: Addressing Euro-Mediterranean Common Challenges through Research and Innovation Cooperation” which will take place on Tuesday 22 January 2019 at the Euromed University of Fes, Morocco.

Airports Council International Africa Region (ACI Africa), the voice of the African airports is delighted to invite you to the 61st Board Meeting and Regional Committees Meetings to be held from March 4 to 10, 2019 and hosted by the «Egyptian Holding Company for Airports & Air Navigation» in the beautiful city of Luxor, Egypt.

A full-day event being curated by BUSINESSMED in partnership with its Employers Organizations Members CONFINDUSTRIA-Italy and CGEA-Algeria that aims at boosting the Euro-Mediterranean companies. It will be held on 11th January 2019 in Algiers, Algeria, under the theme "Advocating for a major role of Med SMEs as main driver for the economic development of the region".

ASCAME congratulates its members that have succeeded the first phase of the ENI CBC MED Programme call for standard projects.