The Mediterranean Innovation Partnership (MIP) for youth entrepreneurship and technological transfer in the agro-food sector is a partnership among institutions committed to the innovation and technological transfer of knowledge, experience, know-how and good practices in agro-food sector in their countries. Recently, LARI-Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute  (http://www.lari.gov.lb/) has joined the MIP network in order to build-up together the Mediterranean Innovation Ecosystem.

In the frame of IFAD-supported project “Strengthening knowledge management for greater development effectiveness in the Near East, North Africa, Central Asia and Europe” CIHEAM BARI, in collaboration with ICARDA, is organizing the “Writeshop to develop capacity building and innovation plans” from 17 to 18 June 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. It will be hosted by IAV-Hassan II involving the national partners IAV, INRA, ONCA and ENA Meknès be...

CIHEAM Bari is launching a new high-level stand-alone specialised Training Programme on “Innovation & Youth Entrepreneurship In The Mediterranean Agro-Food Sector”, in collaboration with The Mediterranean Innovation Partnership (MIP). The course is due to start on September 16, 2019 and will last for 10 weeks. It aims to empower the younger generation and improve their employability opportunities by promoting their active involvement in the economic development of their regio...

On 29 and 30 November 2018 the annual meeting of the Mediterranean Innovation Partnership (MIP) Network for youth entrepreneurship and technology transfer in the agro-food sector, co-organized by CIHEAM BARI and IRESA, will be held in Tunis. The objective of the meeting is to share and discuss the preliminary results of the 2018 MIP Survey - (second annual report of the network) “Innovation processes in the Mediterranean: actors, policies and future prospects of the innovation chain” – with a s...

As you know, during the last MIP meeting in January 2018, the MIP-Action Plan 2018-2020 was shared and approved. It was agreed that the MIP will extend the present partnership to other countries and to new organizations from the Euro-Mediterranean region, including Innovation Support Organizations (ISOs) and SME Clusters. We are so glad to welcome ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, http://www.icarda.org) and EMUNI (Euro-Mediterranean University, https://www...