The fourth edition of MED Talks, the annual dialogue initiative of the Interreg Euro-MED Programme and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), takes place on 25 November 2026. Launched in December 2023, MED Talks creates a space for dialogue and exchange among stakeholders from the two shores of the Mediterranean.
This year the session will be held in Marseille as part of the Interreg Euro-MED event “A Mediterranean Journey”, in the framework of the 11th UfM Regional Forum. “A Mediterranean Journey” marks the mid-term milestone of the Interreg Euro-MED Programme, highlighting results already delivered by its projects, and is hosted at the Parc Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions. The MED Talks session will also be live streamed, with the online broadcast available in English, French and Arabic.
The initiative has grown since its launch. The second edition, in December 2024, focused on the progress of the 56 projects selected under the Interreg Euro-MED Programme, while the third edition gave Interreg NEXT MED a dedicated session for the first time. The 2026 edition goes further, bringing Interreg NEXT MED and PRIMA formally alongside Interreg Euro-MED as a broader platform for dialogue, learning and collective action.
Following a framing presentation by UfM high-level representatives, the session will showcase experiences and achievements of the three programmes, explore synergies, and promote the transferability of successful solutions across Northern, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries.
You can find more information in the agenda.
The introduction will be delivered by H.E. Dr. Nedal M. Al Ouran, Environment Commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), representing the Jordanian Co-Presidency on Sustainable Blue Economy of the UfM. Three thematic exchanges will follow:
• Urban water management, with the Interreg Euro-MED URWAN and ENI CBC Med NAWAMED projects, presented by speakers from SVI.MED (Italy) and the American University of Beirut (Lebanon).
• Energy policy through Mediterranean cooperation, a multi-programme dialogue with speakers from the University of Patras (Greece) and the Technopark Borj Cedria management company (Tunisia).
• Water and agriculture, scaling up solutions from the PRIMA projects SUPROMED and NBS360, with speakers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).