Young Mediterranean Entrepreneurs: Apply for the 2025 ARLEM Award!

If you are a young entrepreneur who is up to 35 years old and has run your company for at least 3 years, this award is for you. Submit your application by15th May 2025

Publication Date
08/04/2025
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Tunis, Tunisia – 28/01/2025

The ARLEM (Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly) Award goes into its seventh edition and will award a young entrepreneur from the Mediterranean partner countries of ARLEM: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Palestine, Tunisia and Türkiye.

The award focuses especially on the link between the entrepreneur and the local or regional authority providing them with support.

The objectives of the award are threefold:

  1. To showcase a successful example of youth entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region to inspire other young people,
  2. To demonstrate the positive impact that local and regional authorities in Mediterranean partner countries can have on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, thus encouraging other local and regional authorities to actively promote, support and sustain youth entrepreneurship,
  3. To illustrate how young entrepreneurs in Mediterranean partner countries actively take the future into their own hands by creating jobs and positively influencing the local economic development, thus establishing a positive narrative.

Evaluation criteria:

Companies will be evaluated on the basis of:

  • Impact on the community, social progress and development
  • The support received from the local or regional authority
  • Impact on job creation
  • The percentage of women in workforce
  • Degree of innovation
  • The respect of workers’ social rights

Deadline to apply: 15th of May 2025

This 2025 edition of the ARLEM Award is supported by the Union for the Mediterranean.  The winning enterprise will be announced during the 16th ARLEM Plenary session, which will take place in the fall of 2025 in Palermo, Italy as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Mediterranean.

For more information, please check this link.

About ARLEM

The Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) is an assembly of local and regional representatives ​from the European Union and its Mediterranean partners​, established as part of the European Committee of Regions. It aims to promote North-South and South-South dialogue between local and regional authorities. Find more information here.

 

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