The EU-funded Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes (FEMISE) is holding its annual conference this year in Casablanca, Morocco, on 29 and 30 April 2017. This year’s theme will be “Migration and Refugees’ Crisis in the Euro-Med: Dawn of an Era of Shared Responsibility?”

The FEMISE annual conference provides a platform for the different actors of the EU-Med region of research institutes’ members, academics, policymakers and representatives of the international community including the EU, to engage in a constructive dialogue about the future of the region and the role the EU can play in the context of the new ENP.

The FEMISE annual conference of 2017 comes in a tensed Euro-MED region, with the aim to provide a platform for discussion and debate among the different stakeholders about this issue and address the following:

• What are the costs of the refugee crisis on the Southern Med Countries?
• How to engage and unify the Euro-Med around the same vision with regards to the crisis and the ultimate integration and prosperity objectives; and
• What actions are still needed?

Through a constructive dialogue between renowned academics, migration experts and policy makers, the FEMISE conference aspires to contribute in finding efficient tools and policies to deal with these pressing issues.

FEMISE is an Association that receives EU-funding, aiming through its activities to contribute to the reinforcement of dialogue on economic and financial issues in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Union for the Mediterranean. More specifically, it seeks to improve understanding of the priority stakes in the economic and social spheres, and their repercussions on the Mediterranean partners in the framework of their implementation of EU Association Agreements and Action Plans.  

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Press release 

Conference concept note

Registration here 

FEMISE – website