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Invest in Med thanks its partners for their great mobilisation in 2009
A unique co-operative momentum! More than 150 economic development organisations have directly participated in the implementation of the Invest in Med programme in 2009, fully contributing to the creation of business partnerships between European and South-Mediterranean enterprises, to the sharing of  expertise and the mutualisation of means between organisations of the two rims. 36 initiatives targeting the development of Mediterranean SMEs in selected sectors have been supported in 2009 by Invest in Med: more than seventy events (businesse meetings, trainings, technical assistance missions) associating nearly 7,000 actors have been organised to reinforce value addition in the Mediterranean region, generate employment and support entrepreneurship. Some 750 partnerships agreements between SME of two rims of the Mediterranean are now being finalised in sectors such as new technologies, agrifood, renewable energies or textile. On December 2 and 3, 2009, a delegation of Invest in Med partners travelled to Bruxelles to present the stakes of the programme and the results achieved so far to representatives of Euro-Med countries, the European Parliament and the European Commission – which co-finances the programme.  To download the documents presented in Bruxelles, click here .To download the presentation of Invest in Med results (Dec 2009), click here Happy new year 2010!The Invest in Med team wishes you the best for the next year.

How to involve high level expatriates in the economic development of the Mediterranean? The MedDiaspora project aims at identifying entrepreneurs, researchers and high level executives investors living abroad, to understand their international business projects and to list the supporting networks and support services in their home countries. You are willing to participate? Click  here .

On December 3rd 2009, TEXTECHMed presented its activities, results and its project to build a regional prototyping platform to the DG Enterprise of the European Commission. The TEXTECHMed case study will be highlighted during the Euro-Med Conference on technical textiles and innovation, which will be organized by the European Commission, on next March 2010.  [Read+]

40 Maghrebin and European entrepreneurs from the mechanical sector supplier of paper industry, will meet each others in Algiers in January 18 and 19, 2010, in order to develop industrial and commercial partnerships. A round table “Qualification of human resources, investments attraction, enterprise competitiveness" will be organized in parallel. Algerian, Maghrebin and European entrepreneurs are welcome!  [Read+]

On November 23 and 24, the Casablanca Technopark held the “e-3M Maroc’2009 Business event” : around thirty Tunisian, Algerian and French Companies and 200 Moroccan entrepreneurs participated in business matchmakings, visited the Casa nearshoring park and attended workshops on experts information systems and enterprise governance.  [Read+]

More than 150 networks from seven Black Sea and Mediterranean countries have undertaken to develop a business and innovation community applied to the secured shipping of containers. The Med-Tracking will present its action plan in Q1-2010 : market studies, development of a prototype, pooling of research, training and test facilities.  [Read+]

Cases studies have been carried out on the three most important industrial zones in Marseille to find out the key success factors and best practices for the management, development and attractiveness of sustainable industrial zones. 6 other Moroccan and Tunisian activity areas will then be investigated in the course of next January.  [Read+]

The Industrial Partnership trophies have been bestowed by ADECI on December 16 2009 to three French enterprises having developed an exemplary collaboration with three Maghrebin enterprises.  The enterprises were rewarded for the establishment of successful technological partnerships in the field of urban water management, the creation of a corporate joint venture for production and export of clementines and the setting of two manufacturing plants for production of sportswear clothing.  [Read+]

A delegation of Bavarian companies visited Algeria, under the direction of Katja Hessel, Bavarian State Secretary for Economic Affairs.  During a meeting with the president of the Algerian employers’ organisation (CGEA), both sides declared their intentions to develop and stimulate new opportunities for cooperation, including in the framework of Invest in Med.  [Read+]

In the framework of a training organised in Morocco by the ACFCI, six experts addressed the issues of corporate networks in high-priority sectors (textile, tourism, mechanics, ICT) and presented possible management strategies to more than twenty trainees. A collaborative platform will be opened soon to facilitate the development of partnerships between participants. [Read+]

An official cooperation agreement was signed by the Presidents of two agrifood clusters in the framework of the Tech Fruits and Vegetables BtoB meetings organised early December 2009 in Avignon. This agreement establishes the exchange of technical and professional tools in order to promote innovation and to unite all actors working in the field of transformed and fresh Fruits and vegetables in the two countries.  [Read+]

The Minister of Industry and the investment Promotion revealed the new strategy of development of  innovation and research in the industry sector.  [Read +]

The new wind complex, of a capacity of approximately 250 megawatts, should be built at the edge of the Red Sea, on western bank of the Gulf of Suez.  [Read+]

The French designer Marc Aurel Studios currently finalizes the urban redevelopment of about the entire  hyper centre town of Tripoli. [Read+]

After three years of negotiations, the agreement on the liberalisation of agricultural trade, agri and fish product between Morocco and the European Union was signed on December 14, 2009 in Brussels.  [Read+]

During a visit in Damas, the Spanish Trade Secretary of State , Silvia Iranzu, revealed that its country was going to grant 8M€ to Syria, from which a part will be allocated to small and medium-sized enterprises.  [Read +]

Tunisia welcomed about 100,000 foreigners, mostly Libyan and African, in its 118 private clinics in 2009, generating a global turnover of nearly 40 million euro.  [Read+]

Bcp-vdo (Aix-en-Provence) rely on its Algerian subsidiary company Samodia to conquer some markets in Libya, Syria, Chad and Oman.  [Read+]

This is the very first solar thermal plant to be created in the Palestinian territories. The new solar plant, that is locatd near Beit Jala, has been donated by MAN Ferrostaal to a Palestinian School.  [Read+]

The Israeli Steff Wertheimer, who already built 4 parks in Israel and one in Turkey, launches work of a 6th park which will be located in a mixed population zone.  [Read+]

Turkey is about to inaugurate an office in Amman with a view to helping and accompanying Turkish investors.   [Read+]

It is the name of the joint-venture recently created by the French group Financière Duval (Boulogne-Billancourt close to Paris) and the Morrocan holding Ténor Group (Casablanca).  [Read+]

The project launched by Tunisie Telecom in partnership with ‘Interoute’, Europe's leading IT network, will enable Tunisia to reach digital independence with a 3.2 Terabyte per second telecommunication capacity.  [Read+]

According to Nihat Ergun, the Turkish minister for Industry and Trade, EEN will provide free of charge consultations to Turkey-based SMEs willing to invest in Europe. [Read+]

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. www.invest-in-med.eu