


This first meeting represented a great opportunity for the seven project partners to discuss the current challenges that different regions on the two sides of the Mediterranean are facing and to raise awareness about the importance of addressing jointly the issues of social exclusion and climate change. Esmat Al Karadsheh) and the Project coordinator and Head of the Unit European Programmes of ARCES Association (Mr. Maria Hadjitheodosiou), the Coordinator of Eastern Mediterranean Branch Office, ENI CBC MED Programme (Dr. Nizar Haddad, General Director of the National Agricultural Research Center of Jordan (NARC) was in charge of opening the kick off meeting by giving a warm welcome to all attendees and introducing the Ambassador of the European Union to Jordan (H.E. The meeting saw the particiption of all project partners coming from Italy, Spain, Greece, Palestine, Tunisia and Jordan as well as several local and regional authorities.ĭr. The project pursues the objective of promoting the development of marketable skills of young NEETs* (up to 30 years of age) and women (without age limits), to meet the needs of Blue and Circular Economy sectors. HELIOS is one of the 41 Cross-Border Cooperation projects implemented by the European Union in the framework of the ENI CBC Med 2014-2020 Programme. The kick-off meeting of the HELIOS “ Enhancing the Social Inclusion of Neets” project was successfully held in Amman (Jordan) from 2nd to 3rd of December 2019.
