Between November 2009 and March 2011, 20 monthly meeting have taken place, both in Alexandria and Cairo. During these sessions, 45 SME managers were invited to discuss, in all confidentially, various aspects of their business, trying to find solutions to their problems and exchange experiences - under the guidance of multinational representative and other SME managers. The benefits of Plato monthly sessions have therefore been threefold: they have encouraged a peer-to-peer exchange of experience between SMEs managers, and facilitated the creation of connections with major group representatives –most of the time difficult to access.  They have finally generated potential business deals.

A team building session gathering the 6 mentors and the 45 SMEs has been  be previously organised in Egypt from October 27 to 28, 2009.  During this team building participants learned to know each other and decided on the topics to be discussed during the monthly meetings.