• May 7th, 2021

Most recent tools and resources for the benefit of the Mediterranean business community

The goal of ASCAME and EBSOMED project  (co-financed by the European Commission) is to foster investment, job creation and meaningful partnerships. This project aims at strengthening Business Support Organisations (BSOs) such as Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations  through capacity building activities and the development of new services, as well as providing resources on the latest economic and investments trends. In addition, it works to spread knowledge about the economic and social development of the Mediterranean contributing to the improvement of the services, performance and competitiveness of the Mediterranean BSOs and to the strengthening of their capacities helping in their decision making processes.

Some of the most recent tools the project provides and ASCAME share for the benefit of its network and the Mediterranean business community are:

The Business Country Desk (BCD): this unique and centralised online platform offers:

  • trade and investment guide and statistical data by country;
  • a partnership directory with a multi-criteria search engine; and
  • a tool to find and create events.

The BCD is a valuable tool for Chambers of Commerce and its network of Enterprises to foster digital transformation and to continue doing business and finding partners and opportunities in a 360º virtual space available in French and English. This online service is free to all ASCAME’s members network. Learn more about its functionalities and set up an account and offer it to your network. Video presentation (en & fr).

Industry Outlook: Sustainable Tourism 2020 in the Mediterranean in the post-COVID-19 context. This document developed by the Chamber of Commerce of Malaga and ASCAME, aims at providing some light about the following axes:

  • Review of the state of the art of the tourism sector in the COVID-19 scenario using the latest data available up-to-date,
  • Illustrate the situation of the tourism and sustainable tourism sector in the Mediterranean region
  • Identify and describe key initiatives by country and institutions in the Mediterranean region involved in sustainable tourism,
  • Analyse the foreign direct investment on the tourism sector in the region,
  • Present the latest trends and profiles of responsible tourist, and
  • Provide recommendations at a business, political and regional level to help the decision making accelerating the recovery of the sector.

This Strategic Paper also incorporates the insights converged during the Sector Alliance Committee held in the frame of the project, which gathered key stakeholders working on sustainable tourism in the Mediterranean and the results of a survey sent to all ASCAME’s members. Access the document

Other relevant resources: ASCAME puts at the service of its network a wide range of regional studies, factsheets, recommendations, surveys, strategic documents and sectoral reports in English, French and Arabic developed in the frame of the project. Access the full library.

Here are some of our favourites:

  • Industry Outlook: The transport and the logistic sector in the Euro-Mediterranean Region https://bit.ly/2P15BtG
  • Fact Sheet: Gender Mainstreaming & Women Empowerment https://bit.ly/3kGNvs1
  • Fact Sheet: MEDA Advocacy Survey 2021 “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in 2021 – An assessment by the Business Community” https://bit.ly/385K213

 

For more information, please, contact us:

Anna Escoda (Projects and International Cooperation Area Manager): aescoda@ascame.org

Projects and International Cooperation Area: projects@ascame.org

Project description

EBSOMED

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