Under the patronage of H.E. Eng. Nayef Bakheet, Chief Commissioner of Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), the NEX-LABS partner The Royal Scientific Society – iPARK organized an Innovation Day in Aqaba on Monday 29th August.

A total of 11 start-ups (5 ideation stage and 6 early stage ventures) joined two different pitching events to compete for grants of up to 7,500€ to help them implement new strategies, create new products and services or export their products to reach new markets.

Region of Peloponnese (Greece), lead beneficiary of the "GreenBuilding" project, relaunches the tender for the energy refurbishment for the building of Prefecture of Laconia. The tender is relaunched by the Directorate of Administration – Economics of the Regional Unit of Laconia which is located in Sparta, Greece.

The Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) is one of the country’s largest employers’ associations. Since its inception the [FEI] has been carrying out its responsibilities towards defending and supporting Egyptian industries, firmly believing in industry as the pillar of the sustainable development of the country and as the tool to alleviate poverty and attain prosperity.

FEI effectively advocates the common interests of its members, defends their positions and implements projects with international donors to raise the competitiveness of the industry.

This article forms part of a series of publications under MEDUSA project’s 

During the two years of project implementation the PPI4MED consortium, composed of partners from Spain, Italy, Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt, has been working on implementing Innovation Procurement as an instrument for knowledge transfer, at the national level as well as cross-border one.

CRE@CTIVE's Egyptian partner, the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, is seeking the services of a Lab manager.

The L@B manager is expected to support and implement WP3 and WP4 activities related to the creative labs, and assist the pilot projects of the lab; the two awarded subgrantees with their projects.

The Lebanese Development Network (LDN), partner in the EU-funded project "Mediterranean Youth, NEETs and women advancing Skills, Employment and Awareness in the blue and green economy" (MYSEA), launches 4 tenders for external services related to the organization of the training activities: