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📢 Sponsors Silver confirmados para el #WeMindInternationalForum ✨✨✨ Clariane Group Saltó Medicare System Johnson & Johnson Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA Brain Capital Alliance ¡Gracias por vuestro apoyo! 👏👏👏 Puedes consultar el programa completo: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dPE9AVRF

Ready for one more UN Climate Change #COP! This time the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA team will be at COP29 Azerbaijan, at the #MediterraneanPavilion. Stay tuned! Union for the Mediterranean #COP29

The Founder and President of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA, Prof. Rym Ayadi, was one of the speakers of the #Ecomondo 2024 side event "Mediterranean Sea level rise, the phantom menace" on 06 November 2024. The event started with an opening speech by Grammenos Mastrojeni, Senior Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean. Prof. Ayadi's presentation was on the Economics of Sea Level Rise in the Mediterranean. She highlighted that "Sea level rise threatens the very foundation of Mediterranean economies—from tourism to agriculture and trade. To protect our future, we must embrace both adaptation and restoration, strengthening infrastructure and revitalizing natural defenses. Together, these strategies safeguard livelihoods, preserve biodiversity, and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come." Ecomondo is a major international event in Europe and the Mediterranean basin for technologies, services and industrial solutions in the green and circular economy sectors. The side event examined the scientific, economic and environmental challenges posed by rising seas, focusing on practical solutions to mitigate these impacts. It was organised by ECOMONDO - ITALIAN EXHIBITION GROUP, the Union for the Mediterranean and The European House-Ambrosetti. #Ecomondo24

The Autumn Academy 2024 “Opening New Horizons for CGIs Through Communication”, took place in Cairo, Egypt, on October 22nd and 23rd, 2024. It was organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network -EMGN , led by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA in collaboration with The Change Initiative and TEDx Ambassador (TED), Coach and Presenter at TED & TEDx, Mr. Ajit Sharma. The Academy was hosted by ضمان - CGC Egypt, a Credit Guarantee Company in Egypt, and a member of the EMGN Network. The main aim of this academy was to enrich participants’ knowledge and share operational challenges & best practices among CGS (Credit Guarantee Schemes) to enhance their communication strategies towards stakeholders.  The Autumn Academy 2024 received remarkable ratings from its participants with an average overall score of the thematic session of 4.53/5, and an overall score of the organization of the academy of 4.67/5 Check the linnk for the key highlights from the EMGN Autumn Academy 2024 training workshop: https://lnkd.in/d4EfrTTe

The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA Quarterly Newsletter presents the EMEA publications, organised events, and main actions and activities, during the period May - August 2024 Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dJqxGwqP

A new paper titled “Brain Health is Essential for Smooth Economic Transitions – Toward Socio-Economic Sustainability, Productivity, and Wellbeing”, reports that optimal brain health is essential to smoothing major skill-intensive economic transitions, such as the bioeconomy, green, care economy, and digital transitions. Good brain health is vital to socio-economic sustainability, productivity, and wellbeing. Increased brain capital is vital to educational attainment, upskilling and reskilling. The paper provides a detailed roadmap for the brain economy. “The costs of mental health and neurological disorders are projected to soar into the trillions and our brains are under mounting pressure to navigate an increasingly complex world. A radical new approach is needed to protect and build our brain capital. Transitioning from a nation struggling to address brain health deficits to one that proactively advances brain health, performance, and skills – a brain-positive economic transformation aka brain economy – will require a systems approach,” noted senior author, Harris Eyre MD PhD, Executive Director of the Brain Capital Alliance, Advisor to the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA and Lead and Harry Z. Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow for Neuro-Policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Prof. Rym Ayadi, Founder and President of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA and Co-Founder of the Brain Capital Alliance, noted, “Just as with the green economy, the brain economy will require major transitions across most major sectors. No single technology, policy, or actor can achieve these critical shifts. Rather, it will take a community of people working together across systems to employ innovative solutions and accelerate change.” https://lnkd.in/dScDgBNy

On October 30th, 2024, the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA and the Creative Business Network (CBN) co-hosted the Mediterranean Creative Forum at #MedaWeek Barcelona 2024. Moderated by Maria Ruiz de Cossío, EMEA’s Senior Project Manager and Coordinator of the #CREACT4MED project, and Camila Cela Marty, Deputy Director at CBN, the session aimed to bring creative entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry experts together to ideate and discuss the incubator's goals. Furthermore, EMEA Senior Researcher Dr. Yeganeh Forouheshfar was one of the speakers of the session. The session centered on the concept of the Innovation Incubator, a proposed cross-sector platform designed to empower creative industries across the Mediterranean region. Panel participants • Afif Barhoumi - Investment Promotion Expert, UNIDO • Bilal Zahalan - Co-Founder & CEO, Tourific • krystel khalil - Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Programs, Berytech • Andre Abi Awad - Founder & CEO, Entreprenergy • Khalid Alazem – CEO, TechSolutions • Abo Obaida Alazem - COO, Duma Toys #MedaWeek is jointly organized annually by ASCAME and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation, with the collaboration of Generalitat de Catalunya and prominent Euro-Mediterranean organizations. 

📍 MEDAWEEK BARCELONA 2024 I  Within the ‘Mediterranean Creative Industry Forum’, we had the chance to explore the challenges and opportunities inherent in the cultural landscape and foster collaborative efforts to advance the Mediterranean creative industry. 💡 One of the initiatives that were presented at the forum was the Creative Business Network, which supports start-ups and entrepreneurs in the creative industry through a global network of partners and investors. This is a unique spot for those interested in creative sectors to gather, share ideas, and have conversations. This platform responds to the growing demand of the sector's agents to have a collaborative space where tangible solutions to the specific challenges of the creative industry can be addressed. 🎯 The panelists highlighted the advantages of this network that aspires to be a truly creative industry cluster: ✅ A unique platform that connects regional and international creatives, facilitating the exchange of ideas and knowledge and collaborative work on joint projects. All actors in the sector have access to an interface that promotes interaction between researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. ✅ The platform becomes a digital hub for creatives from around the world to matchmaking and generate new business opportunities. ✅ Fostering disruptive innovation aiming to change the world and impact the global economy and global culture.

On October 24, 2024, the Brain Capital Alliance engaged as a founding sponsor and co-organizer of the event, “Building Brains: Unlocking Potential through Brain-Healthy Spaces”. The Brain Capital Alliance joined the Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation (CADRE), the The University of Texas at Dallas Center for BrainHealth and HKS, Inc., along with an exclusive group of designers, real estate leaders, researchers, brain scientists and policymakers, to explore the intersection of the human brain and the built environment. Dr Harris Eyre MD PhD, Executive Director of the Brain Capital Alliance and Advisor to the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA, noted, “As we advance the brain-positive economic transformation, to stop and reverse the loss of global brain capital, the built environment is critical. The built environment influences our brains tremendously, given it is where we live, learn, work, and play throughout life. We must harness translational capacity from research to practice to engagement in global economic reform leadership activities”. Eyre is also Lead and Senior Fellow of Neuro-Policy for Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. https://lnkd.in/d5bvfhUw

A wonderful time! Was glad to attend and looking forward to the impact stemming from this day. Juan José Castellón Debbie Beck, Ed.D., MPA, FACHA, RRT Hala El khorazaty Isabelle Sjövall Quazi Haque Livia Shamir Hugo Spiers Carina Carlman