PROJECT INVOLVED ORGANIZATIONS
Empowering Innovation: Our Diverse Collaborators in Addressing MENA's Food Security Challenges
Leading Work Package:
WP4
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6
Politecnico Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.
Research has always been linked to didactics and is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world.
Leading Work Package:
WP2
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP3, WP5, WP6
University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG), founded in 2004 by the Slow Food Movement, is the first University in the world solely dedicated to food. It serves as an international hub for the study and innovation of Gastronomic Sciences, focusing on the interplay between food, ecology, and sustainability. UNISG trains gastronomes—professionals with multidisciplinary skills in the science, culture, politics, economics, and ecology of food—aiming to promote sustainable production, distribution, and consumption.
Leading Work Package:
WP1
Involved in Work Packages:
WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6
Collegio Carlo Alberto is a foundation created in 2004 as a joint initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo and the University of Torino. Its mission is to foster research and teaching in economics, finance, political science and, in general, in social sciences. The Collegio shares the values and best practices of the international academic community.
Leading Work Package:
WP3
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6
Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association EMEA is a Barcelona-based regional think-tank that serves as a leading independent and innovative policy research institution; a forum for debate on the political and socio-economic reforms in Mediterranean and Africa; and promoter of actions and initiatives that fulfil objectives of sustainability, inclusiveness, regional integration and prosperity.
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP2, WP4, WP5, WP6
The Economic Research Forum (ERF) is a regional network dedicated to promoting high quality economic research to contribute to sustainable development in the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. Established in 1993, ERF’s core objectives are to build strong research capacity in the ERF region; to lead and support the production of independent, high quality economic research; and to disseminate research output to a wide and diverse audience. ERF carries out a portfolio of activities. These include mobilizing funds for well conceived proposals; managing carefully selected regional research initiatives and providing training and mentoring programs to junior researchers. It also includes organizing seminars and conferences based on research outcomes; and publishing research output through multiple channels including working papers, books, policy briefs and through the ERF Policy Portal.
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, WP6
University Ibn Zohr (UIZ), established in 1989, is a public institution with autonomy in pedagogy, science, and culture. It plays a key role in higher education and research in Morocco’s southern and Saharan regions, aiming to advance research and promote intellectual and cultural development. UIZ has over 120,000 students across eight campuses, covering more than 50% of the national territory, and includes sixteen institutions
Involved in Work Packages:
WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6
The Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the Mediterranean (ASCAME) is a non-profit international organization representing the private sector in the Mediterranean. It brings together Chambers of Commerce and Industry and similar entities from 23 countries on both shores of the region and advocating for the interests of private sector and millions of businesses.
ASCAME, as an accredited partner of the European Union and international organisations, develops strategic actions aimed at increasing cooperation and economic exchanges between Mediterranean countries, as well as promoting the Mediterranean and its businesses around the world.

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Soc. Coop. Agroalimentare e Agroindustriale del BRADANO SPA
Involved in Work Packages:
WP3, WP5, WP6
The ‘Societa’ Cooperativa Agroalimentare ed Agroindustriale del BRADANO’ is a private engineering firm in close relation with Cicoria, leader in agricultural machinery.
BRADANO company is engaged in the analysis, design, development, implementation and monitoring of complex finance and economic development projects and in the design, implementation, and verification of agricultural mechanization projects or individual machines or particular systems incorporated in agricultural machinery. The standards adopted are those required by ISO standards. The company has the 9001:2015 quality certification.
Involved in Work Packages:
WP2, WP3, WP5, WP6
CEEBA, the Confederation of Egyptian European Business Associations was established to create one powerful national pan European network to advocate on behalf of Egyptian Businesses for market access to the EU and to promote EU Egyptian Trade and Investment.
CEEBA members are business associations and representatives of the enlarged European Union, the EU28. Being a confederation of chambers CEEBA does not accept direct company membership. Since its inception CEEBA has been a major player in all industrial sectors by organizing specific Conferences, Exhibitions, Symposia, Business Round Table, preparing white papers and organizing door-knock missions. It executes visibility activities and support to EuroMed and ENP processes and supports capacity building of economic operators (EU-Egypt Bilateral Chambers).
Leading Work Package:
WP5, WP6
Involved in Work Packages:
WP5, WP6
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, founded in 2003, collaborates with the university, city institutions, and the Lombardy Region, supported by leading entrepreneurial entities. It facilitates innovation sharing and development, particularly in engineering, architecture, and design research fields, fostering progress for future advancement. With two decades of experience, the Foundation supports business creation and international innovation projects, aiming to globalize the excellence of Politecnico di Milano.