Stakeholder meeting on the establishment of a Multilateral Investment Court
22 March 2023, 16:00 CET - 22 March 2023, 17:00 CET
Online
The European Commission is holding a stakeholder meeting on the multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution, including the establishment of a multilateral investment court.
Climate Change, Mobility and Migration: How Should Governments Respond?
22 March 2023, 13:30-14:30
TownHall Europe, Sq. de Meeus 5, 1000 Brussels
Climate across the globe is changing faster than at any point in recent history. Variations in temperature, floods, fires, tornadoes and desertification are among the phenomena that increasingly affect people’s lives.
InfoPoint conference: Urbanisation and Conflicts in North and West Africa
21 March 2023, 15:00-16:30
In presence and online
The new 2023 SWAC/OECD report maps the rural-urban geography of conflict in North and West Africa since the late 1990 using a new interactive policy-making tool: the Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi).
InfoPoint conference: Advancing African Continental Integration in Higher education: building trust through better quality
20 March 2023, 15:00 CET - 20 March 2023, 16:30 CET
Africa's development highly relies on higher education and research systems that play a key role in knowledge-based economic growth strategies. The HAQAA initiative – Harmonisation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in African Higher Education - was conceived in 2014 as an EU cooperation project with Africa based on the idea that “Higher education” has a particularly important role to play in enhancing citizenship and democratic values as well as providing a country with the skilled workers, managers and administrators that will foster sustainable development and encourage the trade and investment needed.
InfoPoint conference: Migration- Team Europe Initiatives in Africa
17 March 2023, 14:00 CET - 17 March 2023, 16:00 CETThe
Team Europe Initiatives on Migration in Africa, namely the Team Europe Initiative on the Atlantic/Western Mediterranean route (AWMed TEI) and the Team Europe Initiative on the Central Mediterranean route (Central Med TEI) are an integral part of the EU’s Comprehensive Migration Approach. They aim at strengthening coordination, coherence and complementarities of actions funded by the EU and by EU MS on migration and forced displacement along those migration routes. Their main objective is to ensure that migration between and within continents is safe, regular and orderly.
CSD on EU-Africa trade and investment relations
17 March, 2023 from 10:00 to 12:00
Online
The aim of this meeting is to discuss with EU civil society the latest developments in EU-Africa trade and investment relations and exchange views on EU trade and investment policy in Africa.
InfoPoint conference: Artificial intelligence for boosting investment in infrastructures and entrepreneurship in Africa (Report)
On Wednesday 09 of 2023, the InfoPoint Hybrid Conference: "Artificial intelligence for boosting investment in infrastructures and entrepreneurship in Africa" took place in Brussels.
Africa’s future food systems
8 Feb 2023, at 16:00
Brussels and Online
Africa’s food systems face the interlinked challenges of conflict, climate change and Covid-19. Right now, at least 130 million people across Africa are in crisis levels of food insecurity.
But the continent is also full of opportunities: Africa’s food systems will be transformed by its youth and urbanisation, its uncultivated arable land, availability of indigenous knowledge, and its expanding food economy.
Aftermath of war in Europe - The West vs. the Global South (Report)
On February 15th, the ECDPM hosted the presentation of the book “Aftermath of war in Europe - The West vs. the Global South” which takes into consideration the Global South’s perspective on the global “polycrisis” spurred by Covid-19, climate change, and inflation brought by the war in Ukraine.
EU trade, investment and development diplomacy in a fragmented world: The SDGs and the Global Gateway (Report)
On February 8, ECDPM hosted a public discussion on “EU Trade, Investment and Development Diplomacy in a fragmented world: The SDGs and the Global Gateway” revolving around potential tensions and complementarities between EU trade, developmental and investment policies focusing on the SDGs and the Global Gateway.