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The SOLID project secretariat participated in the 2019 edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Summit of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (EESC), held in Barcelona on 22-23 October 2019, & focusing on the impact of digitalisation on SMEs in the Mediterranean region. The event brought together more than 100 participants from various economic and social councils or […]

The last Steering Committee of SOLiD, convened by the Project Director, was held in Tunis, on April 30th 2019. The last meeting brought together the project’s consortium namely:  The Arab Trade Union Confederation (ATUC), The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED), The Arab NGOs Network for Development (ANND), Progetto Sud, AIP Foundation and SOLIDAR as well[…]

On the 9th and 10 April, in Marseille, SOLIDAR members together with trade unions organisations from Egypt, Algiers, Morocco, Libya, Jordan, Italy, France and Spain attended the workshop “In search of mutually reinforcing policies between trade union rights and human rights in the Mediterranean region”. This workshop, organized by SOLIDAR, has been organized within the frame of the SOLID project. SOLID is a EU funded initiative whose ultimate goal is to[…]

As a follow up action dedicated to the promotion of SOLiD results, the Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises – BUSINESSMED organized a side event for the official adoption of SOLiD Charter in the margin of the 4th UfM Ministerial Conference on Employment and Labour, that took place on April 2nd 2019, in Cascais – Portugal. The[…]

The closing conference of the pilot project for the promotion of Social Dialogue in the southern Mediterranean neighborhood (SOLiD 2016-2019) took place on March 14th, 2019 at the headquarters of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. The closing conference, organized by BUSINESSMED in partnership with the DG Near and the EESC, saw the participation of[…]

16th – 17th November 2018 City of Culture in Tunis A promotional campaign on the SOLiD project was held in the City of Culture in Tunis from 16th to 17th November 2018, on the sidelines of the EU Conference EU4Youth on “Re-thinking of the Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Partnership”. The campaign took place aside with distinguished European projects. The[…]

SOLiD Project was represented by its Director Mr Mustapha Tlili and its Deputy Director Mrs Jihen Boutiba during the 8th Meeting of the High Level Working Group on Employment and Labour: “Working together for employment, employability and decent work”, that took place in Brussels, on23rd and the 24th of October 2018. The meeting focused on the implementation[…]

Marrakech, October 2nd 2018, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) organized the first conclusive conference for the promotion of Social dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean. The event was held in the frame of the Pilot project for Promotion of social dialogue in the Southern Mediterranean (SOLID), a project funded by the European Commission, with the participation of[…]

Amman, Jordan, 22-23September 2018 In the context of the SOLiD project, the Arab NGO Network for Development organized a regional capacity development workshop in Jordan to support civil society organizations to get acquainted with the economic, social, legal, and organizational content and practices of Social Dialogue and its institutional challenges. The workshop was the culmination of a[…]