Mr. Marco Polverari, director of MEDREC joins the panel for the Tunisian-Italian conference on the "Next Production Revolution" in ENIT, organised in the framework of Enit Innovation Week and the Africa Innovation Leaders Programme.

This seminar was initiated by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Sea of the Italian Republic and the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in the framework of their bilateral cooperation, and organised in collaboration with MEDREC and ONUDI. It was followed by a B2B session and an on-site-visit to GDA Sidi Amor in the region of Ariana.

MEDREC has developed the cooperation project MED-ECOSURE in collaboration with its mediterranean partners, and submitted the project proposal to the funding programme ENPI CBC Med 2014-2020. MED-ECOSURE has been approved for funding and its activities will soon be started.

REFAT is the first project of the bilateral cooperation programme between the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection and the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries. MEDREC has being supporting this bilateral cooperation since it was started and has coordinated the elaboration of the project, which is now officially approved. MEDREC the implementation agency of the project and will manage its activities in close collaboration with both institutions.

ENIT, the national engineering school of Tunis, has applied for and won a PRF, (Federated Research Project) in partnership with MEDREC and other institutions. The project addresses biomass energy.