NRW.Europa supports Enterprise Europe Network Egypt

Following the four-day visit of an Egyptian governmental delegation to ZENIT GmbH at the beginning of February 2009 to learn from the NRW.Europa team about the management, organisational form, working procedures and activities of its Enterprise Europe Network consortium, a follow-up meeting took place mid-March in Cairo. Some 30 representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Trade as well as most Egyptian technology centres and centres of competence were trained by two ZENIT experts in the framework of this workshop. Training focused on the use of various co-operation instruments for the mediation of business and technology partnerships between Egypt and Europe. The outcome was that first technology offers and requests were compiled by Egyptian technology centres and enterprises and entered into the European databases. Enterprise Europe Network Egypt and NRW.Europa have agreed upon further close co-operation for the future. This training for the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the technology centres and centres of competence took place in the framework of Medibtikar, a project under the EuroMed innovation and technology programme. This programme was launched by the European Commission and is supervised by the Delegation of the European Commission in Cairo. Egypt is the first country bordering the southern Mediterranean to become a partner in the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN Egypt).

Contact:
Rainer Hagedorn
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