ARLEM Award Ceremony – Young Local Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean

The Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM), in collaboration with its close partners and supporters, grants an award to a young entrepreneur at local level from the Mediterranean partner countries of ARLEM. 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:

To showcase a successful example of youth entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region to inspire other young people;
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;
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.

A dedicated ceremony for the 2026 edition of the ARLEM Award – Young local entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean will take place on 27 October 2026, in the framework of the 17th ARLEM Plenary Session.