ANIMA Investment Network is a multi-country platform supporting the economic development of the Mediterranean. The network gathers around 40 governmental agencies and international networks. The objective of ANIMA is to contribute to a better investment and business climate and to the growth of capital flows into the Mediterranean region.

The Center is born from the convergence of interests of many partners in the Mediterranean. The Center strives to facilitate access to best knowledge, enhance sustainable development and converge policies towards greater integration in order to respond to regional challenges of today and tomorrow. The CMI was created by a group of Mediterranean governments as well as the European Investment Bank (EIB), the World Bank and the City of Marseille and count many partners that lead programs as the Agence Française de Développement, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the FEMISE, the United Nations Development Programme, the EIB, the World Bank and the Plan Bleu.
The objectives assigned to the Center are to facilitate exchanges of expertise, highlight good practices, and facilitate sustainable development to converge public policies towards greater integration in the Mediterranean.
There are currently five clusters of programs that are being developed at the CMI: Urban and Spatial Development; Environment and Water; Transport and Logistics; Skills, Employment and Labor Mobility, including Youth; and Knowledge Economy, Innovation and Technology.

The European Investment Bank (“EIB”) is the European Union’s financing arm.  Since October 2002, the European Investment Bank’s operations in the Mediterranean partner countries have been brought together under the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (“FEMIP”).  FEMIP combines the whole range of services provided by the EIB to assist the economic development and the integration of the Mediterranean partner countries (see www.bei.org/femip).  Created in October 2002, and until December 2009, FEMIP invested over EUR 10bn in the nine Mediterranean partner countries; it is now the reference player to support the modernisation and development of the Mediterranean with a focus on developing the local private sector, including SMEs, and creating a favourable environment for investments in the region.  The EIB is a founding member of the Marseille Centre for Mediterranean Integration (“CMI”)

The European Parliament is the democratic institution of the European Union (EU): its 736 members are directly elected every five years by over 375 million citizens across 27 countries.
Members of the European Parliament vote legislation that is directly binding in all EU countries, in areas such as financial regulation, energy policy, agriculture, fisheries, consumers' rights, health and the environment, civil liberties, transport...
MEPs also help define and supervise European foreign policy, by voting on the EU's foreign affairs budget, on an equal footing with European ministers in the Council.
The Euro-Mediterranean partnership is at the forefront of debates on foreign affairs at the European Parliament, and MEPs from the South-East of France have always played a key role in influencing Euro-Mediterranean policies and encouraging progress towards a "Union for the Mediterranean". Since 2004, the Euromed Parliamentary Assembly brings together each year a delegation of MEPs and their counterparts from the other side of the Mediterranean to discuss and vote resolutions on issues of strategic importance to the development of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.

The Institut de la Méditerranée association was created in 1994 by local authorities in the Marseille area (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, the French department of Bouches du Rhône, the City of Marseilles and the Marseille-Provence Chamber of commerce). In 2010, Euromed Management became the 5th member of the Association. The activities of the Institute are organised according to two major and complementary functions: on the one hand, lobbying and the identification and follow-up of projects for founding members, on the other. As part of its first mission and in partnership with the Economic Research Forum of Cairo (Egypt), the Institut de la Méditerranée coordinates the FEMISE network since its creation in 1997.
The FEMISE Euro-Mediterranean network has been established as a French non-profit association since June 2005. The network is composed of 80 members (economic research institutes) that represent the 37 partners of the Barcelona Process. Supported by the European Commission within the framework of the MEDA regional initiative since 1997, FEMISE is coordinated by the Institut de la Méditerranée (France) and the Economic Research Forum (Egypt). Its three main objectives are:
1. Conducting socio-economic research and making recommendations on topics identified as priorities for the future of the Euro-Mediterranean region.
2. Publishing and disseminating this research to public and private institutions—national or multilateral—and to the academic world.
3. Encouraging the broadest possible dissemination through the most appropriate means.

UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. The UNIDO has three thematic priorities, among which Environment and Energy. Through this priority, UNIDO mainly addresses Millennium Goal 7 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and asserting that “the current unsustainable patterns of production and consumption must be changed in the interest of our future welfare and that of our descendants.” UNIDO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. Its mandate is to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition.

UNIDO services are based on two core functions: as a global forum, UNIDO generates and disseminates industry-related knowledge; as a technical cooperation agency, it provides technical support and implements projects.
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