Founded in 1939, SAID SAIFAN has established a reputation for providing premium quality olive oil, olive oil soap, and table olives. With the help of the EU-funded EMPHASIS Project, SAID SAIFAN will take its business to the next level by expanding to international markets. This expansion will lead to increased production, recruitment, employability, and a significant positive impact on the Lebanese labor force.

In the framework of the SME4SMARTCITIES project, which fosters collaboration between SMEs and cities in the Smart City sector, an innovative solution will be implemented and tested in the municipalities of Murcia, Cartagena, Yecla and Molina de Segura in response to the challenge presented by the region of Murcia to facilitate the parking of People with Reduced Mobility (PRM).

As previously announced, the Municipality of Mnihla, one of the Tunisian partners of SOLE project, has appointed an expert to produce an energy efficiency report on the municipal building.

As part of the TRANSDAIRY project, which aims to strengthen the dairy industry in the Mediterranean region, the Euro-Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernization (ELCIM) at the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) is inviting ICT startups, SMEs, entrepreneurs, researchers, dairy innovators, and spin-offs from Lebanon, Tunisia, Greece, and Italy

The INVESTMED project held its kickoff event for MSMEs in autumn 2022 and has now released the event report. The event was held to present certificates to the winning subgrantees of the INVESTMED project and provide them with insightful and inspiring workshops to kickstart their business proposals. The INVESTMED subgranting programme aims to support entrepreneurs in the green, blue, and cultural and creative economies in 3 countries in the Mediterranean - Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia. 

On 15/1/2023, the research team of the

ActionAid Hellas, one of the Greek partner of INTERNISA, is organising a seminar for business representatives, business owners and freelancers from the industries of agriculture, tourism, economy and textile.

The University of Cagliari (Italy) has a new job opening for a Facilitator for its Living Lab (LL). The professional figure will work to improve the technological transfer promoted by the Living Labs of the TECHLOG research project - "TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER FOR LOGISTICS INNOVATION IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA".

Under the INVESTMED project which aims to support entrepeneurs in the Mediterranean in the green economy, blue economy, and cultural and creative industries, partner LUMSA is carrying out coaching and mentoring sessions in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia. The coaching & mentoring is a condensed program to accelerate entrepreneurs' growth, fine-tune their documentation and investment readiness.

The MATS project “Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar”, co-funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, aims at the development, build and demonstration of a multipurpose facility to produce electrical power and water supply for a community of at least 1000 people in a desert area in Egypt, through the following main steps: