PACEIM : Support Programme for the creation of an innovative company in the Maghreb

PACEIM aims to accompany and support the creation of 100 innovative businesses from the public research in the South and East of the Mediterranean by 2014. It is supporting initiatives promoted by the scientific and technical diaspora, trained or working in Europe, in all sectors of industrial activity which includesa technological component: studies, doctoral students, post-doctorals, research workers, engineers and technicians.

The PACEIM pilot phase, undertaken within the framework of Invest in Med, mobilised the players in business creation support from selected countries of the Mediterranean (Algeria, France, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia): it gave the opportunity to test on a regional level this original method of co-accompaniment, by helping some 15 business projects to be implemented. Theses will be monitored during three years.

Objectives of the operation:
In Europe

• Identify entrepreneurs and business projects in UE
• Information meeting about PACEIM intended to students, PhD, engineers…
• Making technologies offers