🐚Marine Protected Areas 🕘9:00📍Malachite I+II
– “People at the Helm: Building Skills, Partnerships, and Resilience for Maritime Decarbonization”
Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) / Constantinos Triantafillou
– “Bridging Shores: Elevating Youth Leadership for a Sustainable Mediterranean”
Mediterranean Youth Group (MYG) / Mohamed Rafat
🗺️Governance & monitoring 🕘9:00📍Beryl I+II
– “Support the implementation and monitoring of the sustainable development in the region”
Plan Bleu/RAC / Antoine Lafitte
🐬Biodiversity 🕘 9:00📍Astor, Plenary Hall
– “From Science to Action: Strengthening Conservation and Cooperation for
Priority Mediterranean Species and Habitats”
ACCOBAMS / Maylis Salivas, MEDASSET – Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles / Nadia Andreanidou, Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB -French Biodiversity Agency) / Eva Sahores
🌿Green Mediterranean 🕐13:00📍Astor, Plenary Hall
– “Bolstering Marine and Coastal Protected Areas (MCPAs) and OECMs in the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast”
Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) / Mohamed Said Abdelwarith
& Atef Elemam
– “Advancing Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean: Towards a Coordinated Approach for Target 3 of KMGBF”
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN Med) / Carla Danelutti
– “The MedFund: Flagship initiative of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development”
UNEP-MAP-SPA/RAC / Mahmoud Elyes Hamza
– “EU-funded projects: a driving force for IMAP implementation – Marine Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control in the Mediterranean”
UNEP/MAP-QSR UNIT / Samar Kilani, UNEP/MAP-MEDPOL / Jelena Knezevic 🕑14:00
💙Blue economy 🕐13:00📍Malachite I+II
– “Science, Education and Cooperation for a Resilient Mediterranean
The Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection”
Ayoub Achbaro
– “The Blue Economy: Ensuring Synergies between the Private Sector and Parliamentarians”
Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) Marco Mura🕧13:30
– “Pathways to a Thriving Mediterranean Blue Economy: Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability”
Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) / Haris Paliogiannis, Anasis Koukounaris & Jesus Garcia , World Bank / Hanan El Hadary, ECO-UNION /Jérémie Fosse 🕑14:00
🌐Sustainable Marine 🕕18:00📍Malachite I+II
-“Green Forward Second Policy Dialogue: Sustainable Economic Transition in the Mediterranean Countries”
Expertise France / Marlen Bakalli
-“Public Participation in Action: Protecting Marine Environments Through Citizen Science”
ACTs Foundation /Hossam Emam
– “Education for Sustainable Development: A Pillar for Marine Protection”
FISPMED – Sustainable development and the fight against poverty in the Mediterranean and Black Sea /Margherita Poles
Date: 4 December 2025
Location: Cairo, Egypt