From the start of olive tree cultivation in Tunisia, the treatment of olive fruit fly was one the primary concerns for the local farmers and producers. In the following video created by the Institute of Olive, Tunisian partner of FruitFlyNet-ii project that aims to deal with the damage caused to the olive groves by the insect, some interesting facts are represented about olive tree growing in the country:

The international center for technology and innovation (CITET), a partner of the CLIMA project in Tunisia, had concluded a partnership agreement with a local association called TWASSOL which is very active in the Mahdia area. "Tawassol" means “continuity”, which is one of the objectives of this collaboration. To ensure a continuity of actions, mainly community awareness, beyond the CLIMA project predefined in time.

MEDSt@rts was born to help young people with promising business ideas overcome the traditional credit constraints to start or scale up their enterprise and, in its final stage, it aims to carry out several actions to strengthen and enhance the results obtained.