MED-SPRING invited to attend the TRANSMED Meeting: MED-SPRING was invited to participate in TRANSMED, organized by ANR (France), from September 19th to 20th, 2013 in Montpellier, France. Read more.
MED-SPRING invited to attend the Final Workshop of EARN: MED-SPRING was invited to participate in the final workshop of EARN (Euro-Algerian research network) in Algiers, Algeria, from September 25th to 26th, 2013. Read more.
Call for Innovative Ideas: With views to the next MED-SPRING Brokerage event, and aiming at creating new opportunities, 18 entrepreneurs have been selected and invited to present their ideas to potential investors and discuss further developments with other researchers and stakeholders during the brokerage event. Read more.
MED-SPRING project survey of Euro-Mediterranean Observatories: The aim of this survey was therefore to elaborate a state of the art of existing thematic observatories acting in the region, their functionalities and dynamics in order to understand their needs and role in the regional cooperation. Read more.
MED-SPRING invited to attend the ERANETMED Kick Off Meeting: MED-SPRING was invited to participate in the Kick Off meeting of ERANETMED project, from 4th to 5th November 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. Read more.
MED-SPRING Training on H2020 for Mediterranean NCPs: With the idea of carrying out a "Training for Trainers", this event organized in Amman (Jordan), from 9th to 11th December 2013, aimed at providing Mediterranean-NCPs with fresh knowledge and insight of H2020. Read more.
MED-SPRING 1st Observatory Networking Meeting: The aim of this meeting, organized in Paris (France) last 19th December 2013, was to support the development of collaborative links between Observatories of both sides of the Mediterranean; to develop a shared vision to build a "platform" of Euro-Mediterranean Observatories, and to pave the way for future networking activities. Read more.
MED-SPRING 1st Thematic Pamphlet: Our first thematic pamphlet describes in a introductory way the three societal challenges selected in MEDSPRING. Read more.
We publish news in the Mediterranean area related to R&D and the societal challenges, so you can check them at: http://medspring.eu/news-and-opportunities. Please find below a selection of them:
FETRIC project: FETRIC aims to strengthen the bilateral cooperation between the EU and Tunisia, by enhancing synergies between S&T EU and Tunisian actors, projects, and programmes. FETRIC will tackle the Horizon 2020 societal challenges through a challenge-based approach in order to examine and answer societal problems in both Tunisia and the EU, especially in the fields of scarcity of resources, energy with a focus on renewable energy and energy saving, and high quality affordable food. Read more.
SCOW Project Conference on "Reducing and Recycling waste in tourist and agricultural areas: The aim of SCOW, funded by the ENPI CBCMED Programme, is to develop low cost, technically simple and high quality biowaste collection and recycling models in territories with touristic areas and agricultural activity. SCOW wants to build up a sustainable, innovative and local treatment of the biowaste in decentralized small-scale composting plants, developed essentially in agricultural holdings situated near the biowaste production areas in the partners territories. Read more.
17th MoCo meeting: the 17th MoCo meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium, last 18th December 2013. Read more.
ENPI CBC MED Publication: 56 projects to tell the story of a Mediterranean which cooperates: By consulting these two brochures on the 56 running cross-border projects, you will get access to key information on partnerships, funding, objectives, target groups, main activities and expected results. Read more.
Strengthening economic cooperation: First Economic Forum of the Western Mediterranean - Dialogue 5+5: The event brought together ten Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Presidents of employers’ associations of Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia, as well as 200 business leaders from the region. Read more.
MAGHRENOV Project Kick Off Meeting: MAGHRENOV aims to support innovation in the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) sector in the Mediterranean basin. The Consortium brings together partners from Europe and MAGHREB countries, whose shared goal is to establish a common Euro-Mediterranean innovation space. Read more.
H2020 Open to the World: Please find the video with the opening words of the "H2020 - Open to the world" event. Read more.
HORIZON 2020: Launch event in the Med Region - Meeting EuroMed Common Challenges: The European Commission’s DG Research and Innovation is organising a regional Conference to promote and present H2020 in the EuroMed region. The conference aims to discuss the future of international cooperation in Research and Innovation in the EuroMed region under Horizon 2020. International cooperation, especially with its neighbouring countries and the Mediterranean region, is a key priority of EU research and innovation funding.This conference will aim to draw the attention of stakeholders in EuroMed countries to the opportunities and challenges for MPCs in Horizon 2020 as well as promote the programme to R&I stakeholders in the region. Read more.
Info day 2014 Horizon 2020 - Societal Challenge 2 and LEIT Biotechnology: The INFO DAY on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy) took place in Brussels on 17th January 2014. Read more.
HORIZON 2020 is Here!: Last 11th December 2013 the first Calls for Proposals of the new Horizon 2020 Programme were officially launched. Read more.
Networking and brokerage on H2020 topics, relevant to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on Research and Innovation: MEDSPRING project is organizing a regional event called “Networking and brokerage on H2020 topics, relevant to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on Research and Innovation” in Cairo, Egypt next 8th February 2014. This event will be organised back to back to the regional event Horizon 2020 Conference Meeting EuroMed Common Challenges, which is an event organised by the European Commission on 9th February also in Cairo, Egypt. Read more.
MED-SPRING project annual meeting: The MED-SPRING project will organize its annual meeting in Cairo, Egypt, the next 9th to 11th February 2014. More information will be provided soon in the website. Read more.
1st Euro-Mediterranean Brokerage Event on Research and Innovation: The MED-SPRING project is organizing a regional brokerage event in Cairo, Egypt, from 12th to 13th February 2014. The meeting will support networking among researchers, SMEs and research stakeholders from different South Mediterranean and European countries. Read more.
2nd EMEG meeting on research policies: The MED-SPRING project will organize the "2nd EMEG meeting on research policies" in Tunisia next June. Read more.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR), Tunisia, is responsible and supervise the National programmes on Scientific Research and coordinate the National Contact Point for the FP7 INCO Programme.
The Energy picture in the Mediterranean areas is relatively different in the northern and southern zones. Climatic, geographic and demographic characteristics are different among North and South and must be taken into account when defining common topics and solutions. Also market opportunities and level of partnerships differ very much from north to south Mediterranean.
