The Blue Mediterranean Partnership (BMP) is a platform for coordinating interventions and leveraging resources to enable sustainable blue economy investments in the Mediterranean region.  

The BMP seeks to increase coherence, cooperation and coordination among all stakeholders concerned to increase the impact and visibility of sustainable blue economy investments around the Mediterranean.  

Today’s event will be a signing ceremony of the Blue Mediterranean Partnership (BMP), which is a key milestone towards making it operational at the start of 2024.   

Moderator: Maria Selin, Head of Regional Development Cooperation, Embassy of Sweden, Jordan

Participants: 

• Jakob Granit, Director-General, Sida
• Odile Renaud-Basso, President, EBRD
• Werner Hoyer, President, EIB
• Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, EU
• Gert Jan Koopman, Director General, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), EU
• Nasser Kamel, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterrenean