The project is entitled MED Dialogue for Rights and Equality,and it is a three-year EU-funded technical assistance regional programme,with the overall objective to strengthen the capacities of the civil society actorson a regional level in the southern Mediterranean.The service contract has several clusters of activitiesand one activity we talk about is called the Young Fellowship programme.The idea of choosing a climate topic was that this is a topic that's very relevant to the region,the Mediterranean is very fragile.And the global warming and other climate threats are influencing it a lot.Yet, the topic is not high on the agenda and especially among youth.It is not a topic that is easy to promote.So, the idea was to choose young leaders who want to engage in this topicand help them become more active and more productive.Our project is regional, so we always look for a value-addedthat original initiative can bring, and we also try to avoid duplicationwith projects that are happening on the bilateral level.In the case of the southern Mediterranean,the regional approach is all the more importantbecause this region is very heterogeneous,with very few connections among the countries,and the civil society organisations don't have much opportunity to cooperate,and the youths also have very few opportunities to meet.Looking for the common topics is especially importantbecause this brings people togetherand makes them realise that the countries do have common issues,and issues like climatehave no boundaries and are not different, sometimes from country to country.The reason why working with youth is one of the main objectives of the programme isthat the southern Mediterranean region has a very large population of young people,who will be the future leaders and who struggle at this pointto be connected to the decision-making processesand to be involved in how the countries' future is shaped.