Be aware of disinformation: Think before you share
No one wants to be the person who contaminates their friends’ social media feeds with conspiracy theories or disinformation. Use this list to make sure you stay ahead of disinformation!
Cartooning for Peace: Cartooning for peace and freedom in high schools !
At the Okba Ibn Naffaâ high school, located in Kairouan, a city in central Tunisia, few students have ever been interested in cartooning and even fewer have sketched this kind of humorous drawing, heavy with meaning and loaded with messages. Introducing young people to this form of freedom of…
Jordanian innovators breathe hope back into a Covid-19 stricken world
As the world seems to have been sent into freefall with the Covid-19 crisis, a group of Jordanian innovators has come together to bring hope to their community, by creating open source face shields and emergency respirators for healthcare workers and local hospitals. Engineers from the EU-funded…
Coronavirus pandemic: the EU is fully committed to the Southern Mediterranean countries during this unprecedented health crisis
“COVID-19 will reshape our world. We don’t yet know when the crisis will end. But we can be sure that by the time it does, our world will look very different. How different will depend on the choices we make today. […] Only by pulling together and cooperating across borders can we beat the virus…
Libyan Women: A portrait of those fighting for equality
These women are students, employees and teachers. They are Libyan and they are forging a path to freedom in a country fractured by war. They decided not to flee, but to band together to campaign for women’s rights, for equal citizenship with men. Paying no heed to a reluctant patriarchy and braving…
#InTheirEyes #EU4YOUth: not just a competition - a great human adventure 2.0!
On 19 December 2019, the EU Neighbours South Programme launched the regional #InTheirEyes #EU4YOUth competition aimed at digital influencers in eight countries of the Southern Neighbourhood: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. An intrepid human adventure had…
Clima-Med: Budding eco-warriors fighting climate change
In the early hours of the morning on a Sunday in November, the weather in Hammam Sousse - a town in the Tunisian Sahel - was decidedly misty. It had rained heavily the day before and the banks of the Oued El Hammam were shrouded in a dense fog. Despite pessimistic weather forecasts, municipal…
Egypt: How the European Union support has helped raise public awareness ending a decades-long crisis in Fayoum
The rehabilitation of Awlad Mohamed canal project in Fayoum (Egypt) is part of a large programme, the Joint Rural Development Programme (EU-JRDP), funded by the European Union under the European Neighbourhood Program for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD) for a grant of € 21.9 million. EU-…