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(business partnership) Medalliance Network directory
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FocusInvest in Med third request for initiatives: 11 new Mediterranean business projects selected
02-02-2010
 Out of the 37 initiatives received, 11 have been selected on January 21st by the MedAlliance executive committee. These initiatives target 8 strategic sectors for the development of the Mediterranean, with a special focus on energy efficiency/renewable energy as well as distribution and logistics. More than 50 business and economic development organisations from 7 European and 9 Med countries will work in consortia all along 2010 to deploy around 50 field actions (i.e BtoB meetings, technical assistance missions, trainings). This selection take on board newly involved countries such as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Estonia, Czech Republic or Portugal. Leaders are all committed to achieve short and long term competitive results with the objective of developing sustainable trade relationships, investments and enterprise partnerships between the two rims of the Mediterranean. A kick off meeting will be organised in Marseille on March 2nd and 3rd, 2010 to officially launch the selected 11 projects . |
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The Invest in Med programme aims at developing sustainable trade relationships, investments and enterprise partnerships between the two rims of the Mediterranean. Funded at 75% by the European Union over the 2008-2011 period, it is implemented by the MedAlliance consortium, which associates economic development organisations (ANIMA, leader of the programme), CCIs (ASCAME, EUROCHAMBRES), and business federations (BUSINESSMED). The members of these networks, as well as their special partners (UNIDO, GTZ, EPA Euroméditerranée, World Bank, etc.), gather a thousand of economic actors - mobilised through pilot initiatives centered on key Mediterranean promising niches. Each year, a hundred operations associate the 27 countries of the European Union and 9 Mediterranean partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia.