Emerging Mediterranean Acceleration Program for Young People From the MENA Region
Emerging Mediterranean Acceleration Program for Young People From the MENA Region
EMERGING Valley, with the support of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the French Development Agency (AFD), launched the EMERGING Mediterranean program in 2020.
EMERGING Mediterranean is an acceleration program for entrepreneurs with high social and environmental impacts from the southern shore of the Mediterranean -Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya- committed to e-health, mobility, agritech, environment, edtech, social and solidarity economy or female entrepreneurship.
EMERGING Mediterranean is a comprehensive program, which combines financial support, educational support, networking and visibility, and whose advantages for entrepreneurs are numerous:
Customized and personalized mentoring,
Fundraising support,
Preparation for scale-up,
Accelerating social and inclusive innovation,
Networking,
Exchanges between peers,
Leadership…
This program has been designed to identify, accelerate and nurture the advocacy of Mediterranean “Tech for Good” startups, and has the ambition to create a community of impactful digital leaders.
Initiated by Samir ABDELKRIM (Qualified Personality for France, member of the “Assembly of 100”), EMERGING Mediterranean is an initiative labeled Summit of the Two Shores. This diplomatic meeting organized in June 2019 brought together the 5+5 countries (northern and
southern shores of the Mediterranean) with the aim of identifying emerging civil society projects that strengthen multilateral Mediterranean partnerships.
EMERGING Mediterranean has been selected among 270 projects to make the Mediterranean the Lab of Sustainable Development Goals through digital and to support entrepreneurs and their innovative solutions.
Eligibility Requirements:
The submission of applications to participate in the Program is free of charge and open to any project leader with the following characteristics:
Be of legal age (+ 18 years);
Have a company that has been in existence for more than 18 months and is domiciled in one of the five (5) countries covered by the EMERGING Mediterranean Program (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia);
Have a project related to one of the themes below-mentionned:
E-health
Environment
Agritech
Edtech
Mobility
Social and Solidarity Economy
Master the French or English language and agree to express themselves in one of these two languages during the various events planned by the Program;
Not be an EMERGING Mediterranean Laureate from previous editions.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Emerging Mediterranean Acceleration Program for Young People From the MENA Region
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