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Examples and best practices

RESUME: RESEA U MÉDITERRANÉEN POUR L’EMPL O YABILITÉ PRIMA : PAR TNERSHIP FOR RESEAR CH AND INNO V ATION IN THE
Theme: Employability and the Triple Helix MEDITERRANEAN AREA
Funding: Erasmus+ / KA2 – Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education Theme: Partnership for Research and Innovation
Lead: UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union Funding: Horizon 2020 & partner countries
Programme & partner countries: France, Italy, Spain, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia Lead: UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union
Timeframe: 2015-2018 Programme & partner countries: Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg,
More information: www.resumeproject.eu
Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey
The RESUME project aimed to enhance and reinforce the role and potential of HEIs in developing employability in Mediterranean Duration: 2014-2020
countries by adopting a transversal entrepreneurial mind-set at the HEIs and by opening and structuring the dialogue among the More information: www.prima-med.org
universities, the enterprises and the policymakers. PRIMA is the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area and the most ambitious joint programme in the frame
The RESUME project addressed four priority actions:
of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. PRIMA aims to build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common
• Establishing inter-ministerial commissions for entrepreneurial learning innovative solutions for agro-food systems, to make them sustainable, and for integrated water provision and management in the
• Establishing a platform for the identification and exchange of good practices Mediterranean area, to make those systems and that provision and management more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and
• Strengthening co-operation among HEIs and promoting links with business to foster entrepreneurship environmentally and socially sustainable, and to contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and
migration problems upstream. PRIMA gathers European Union Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and Mediterranean
• Establishing an accredited Southern Mediterranean entrepreneurship network paying particular attention to gender issues
Partner Countries on an equal footing basis (co-ownership, co-management and co-funding) with the Participation of the European
Commission, under the framework of an art.185 TFEU.
THE NEXT SOCIETY
AREA SCIENCE PARK
Theme: Networked Community
Funding: EU Theme: Science and technology park
Lead: Anima Funding: National funding
Programme & partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia Programme & partner countries: Italy
Timeframe: 2017-2020 Start: 1982
More information: https://www.thenextsociety.co/ More information: www.areasciencepark.it

The Next Society is an open community of changemakers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, NGOs, public and private Area Science Park is a leading multi-sector science and technology park which operates internationally. It is managed by a consortium
innovation, research, and economic development hubs from Europe and seven Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, of research and business actors and was officially recognised by the Ministry of University and Research in 2005 as a ‘1st level
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. It aims at mobilising, promoting and reinforcing innovation ecosystems and economic national research body’, whose purpose is to provide a national point of reference for technology transfer. Area Science Park offers
development in the MENA region. The Next Society believes in Reverse Innovation, the capacity of innovators from emerging different services, in many of which it takes the role of an intermediary:
countries to come up with solutions to contemporary challenges that can inspire the rest of the world, by supporting South
Mediterranean innovators who develop local solutions with a global reach or which allow to skip a generation in terms of use or • Company creation: Area has developed a new model for business incubators called Innovation Factory. It steps in during the earliest
technology. The key objectives of the programme are: stages of an enterprise’s life cycle (the pre-seed phase), when risk of failure is highest
• Improve policy frameworks • Innovation in business: fostering the development of project concepts, seeking the funds required to support them, identifying
• Foster start-up successes national and international partners and creating training and knowledge sharing programmes.
• Promote and internationalise clusters • Promoting research: contribute to the marketing of patents and other industrial property titles and to the creation of spin-off
businesses.
• Accelerate technology transfer towards the enterprise • Innovation Projects: participate in national and international scientific projects, technology development projects and innovation
dissemination projects funded by the EU (FP7, Horizon 2020 and others).
S AT T : LES SOCIÉTÉS D’A CCÉLÉRATION DU TRANSFER T DE • Capacity building: foster international partnerships and provides consultancy services in designing science and technology hubs.
TECHNOL OGIES
Advanced instruments: offer top-notch infrastructure and skills to companies interested in carrying out industrial innovation and
research projects in the advanced materials field.
Theme: Technology Transfer Accelerator Network
Funding: National funding
Programme & partner countries: France
Start: 2014
More information: www.satt.fr
In France, the SATT Network is the association that brings together the Technology Transfer Accelerator Offices, which have the
challenging mission to accelerate the transformation of French research into innovations. Their aim is to enhance the value and to
accelerate the process of technology transfer from publicly funded research toward industry. SATTs evaluate, market and license
technology from French Universities and Public Research Organisations. Through its action the SATT Network enable to:
• Make available a common catalogue of technologies ready to be transferred
• Develop partnerships
• Display shared values
• Organise a common communication