EUMEDIS projects are now ready to launch!

H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Ambassador Ian Boag, Head of Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt, introduced the EUMEDIS and the contracted projects, during a press conference which took place on 27 June from 9.45 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).

 Selecting from among 175 proposals, the European Commission has contracted 14 projects under the EUMEDIS initiative, and negotiations are proceeding for projects in the reserve list which signature should take place in the following months. The selected projects will focus on the following five sectors: cultural heritage and tourism, education, electronic commerce, health care, and research for industry development. The total budget allocated to the initiative is €65 million. The projects’ implementation will take 2-3 years and will involve all EuroMed Partners.

 Fourteen out of the sixteen contracted projects involve Egyptian partners: the second highest level of participation among all 27 Euromed partners. Contributors to EUMEDIS from various Egyptian entities, were invited to the event to speak about their experience through the winning project proposals.

 The event started by words given by H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif  and followed by H.E. Ambassador Ian Boag. Then, Dr. Sherif Hashem, director of ISDO gave a comprehensive presentation that was titled “The overview of EUMEDIS initiative and projects”. Finally, a Q&A session was held afterwards for about 30 minutes. Journalists from both Egyptian and foreign press managed to ask diverse questions concerning the budget allocated for the projects, forecasts for the flow of work in the contracted projects……etc.

 All the participants at last were able to have a complete vision of the initiative and the projects included.