The Project of a Euro- Mediterranean Observatory (http://emo.pspa.uoa.gr) is one of the activities recently carried out by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Department of Economic and Financial Sciences of the University of Genoa. The main objective of the International Research Group lies in setting up a Euro-Mediterranean Research Network with an emphasis on a research work organisation and involvement of young researchers (junior university teachers and researchers, post graduate and graduate students).

The project’s activity aims at fostering the dialogue between the EU and MEDA courtiers in the new international environment following 2004 EU enlargement and recent conflicts in Mid Eastern area in order to contribute to the political and social stabilisation of the Mediterranean area and modernisation of the MEDA economies. In particular, the research is aimed at the highlighting the adjustment costs of the partnership agreement for the MEDA countries that they have to bear in order to adjust to the partnership constraints and to re-launch their economies considering both social and economic constraints and the sustainable development conditions.

That collective scientific achievements performed by the international research team aims at contributing to the process of EU – Mediterranean cooperation and to the regional integration efforts of the Southern and Eastern MEDA countries.

Project Coordinator,

Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Genoa,

Prof. Franco Praussello