Working Panels

Within the framework of the II edition of the Forum, discussion among the participants will be encouraged through three Working Panels, focused on the following themes:

“Support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises”;
“Energy”;
“Infrastructures”.

The Forum will be closed by a Round Table, focused on the potential for growth of the Euro-Mediterranean area, in the light of the current economic and financial crisis.

1. “Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: a motor for development in the Euro-Mediterranean region”

“Mediterranean Business Development Initiative”: new means for development?
- Common policies and actions to favour economic cooperation between Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Mediterranean Region
- Demographic trends and human capital development
“Finance for Growth”: which instruments for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises?
- Access to finance and risk capital development
- Training and Technical Assistance
- Micro-Enterprises and Micro-Finance
“Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area”: towards a real integration?
- Access to European market: protectionist risks and opportunities for development
“Commercial Peace in the Mediterranean”:
- Mediation and arbitration for the settlement of commercial disputes in the Mediterranean
- A common practice among the arbitral institutions for the benefit of SMEs?

2. “Energy for the Mediterranean: harmonization of markets, development of networks, renewable energy sources”

“Euro-Mediterranean Energy Cooperation: political, industrial and financial opportunities”
- Energy in the Mediterranean: legal, technical and regulatory framework
- Towards the “Euro-Mediterranean Energy Community: a new deal between Governments, Regulatory Authorities and companies”
“Infrastructures and Energy Networks”
- Development of energy distribution and transmission networks between the South and East Mediterranean rim Countries and Europe
“Renewable Energies and industrial strategies”: a new path for growth?
- Financial, regulatory and technical instruments needed to achieve the objectives established by the regional programs supporting renewable energies
- EXPO 2015: a development opportunity

3. “Infrastructures in the Mediterranean region: networks, development projects and sources of financing”

“Reshaping the Mediterranean”: towards a common Action Plan
- Motorways of the Sea and land networks: links and development
- Sustainable construction industry: a new concept for growth
- Which opportunities for SMEs?
“Finance for Infrastructures”
- “Inframed” Fund: the role of finance in an evolving context
“Green Corridor”: towards a Euro-Mediterranean logistics supply chain

5. “4MediaMed Observatory”

Workshop: Mediterranean, the 4th largest economy emerging from crisis to nowadays: the media’s perspectives.
Speaker Panel: Chief editors, media and economy experts, journalists
Chairman: Bruno Vespa