2023-06-12 08:34:08
The “Lab Innova” for Tunisia reaches its 3rd this yeare edition, after successfully training 40 Tunisian start-ups in previous editions.
the 3e edition of the training project “ICE Agenzia Lab Innova for Tunisia 2023”, promoted in collaboration by ITA/ICE, Italian Agency for Foreign Trade, section for the promotion of exchanges of the Italian Embassy and by ITA/ICE agency – Training Office-Headquarters in Rome, will be inaugurated today June 12 in Tunis.
The initiative is part of the “LAB Innova For Africa” project, an ICE Agency management training program launched in 2019, and successfully implemented in recent years in Angola, Côte d’ Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and Tunisia, involving in previous years a total of 275 African companies focused on agribusiness or ICT according to the different countries concerned. The “Lab Innova” for Tunisia reaches its 3rd this yeare edition, after successfully training 40 Tunisian start-ups in previous editions.
As in previous years, the format of this edition provides for the following phases: collaboration with the Ministry of Technology and Communications, “Smart Capital” and the Tunisian Association of Start-ups for the preparation of the selection notice: collaboration and support in the dissemination of the call for applications through specific local technology hubs, identified on the basis of the selected sectors of the “2023 Smart Tunisian Technoparks-El Ghazala” edition (Tunis) and “Novation City” (Sousse) with a focus on Agri Tech and Green Tech, “Medtech”, ICT, “Big Data”, “Fintech”, “Blockchain”, “Internet of Things” (IoT), Cyber-security, Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Mobility.
A study trip
The selection phase saw the application of 51 Tunisian start-ups, among which the 22 participants in the class phase were selected: the class phase will be followed in autumn by a study trip to Italy in the technological poles, Italian start-ups and incubators, which will take place in the Emilia-Romagna region and which will then be followed by the usual participation of the Tunisian delegation in the Italian event “Smau”, a fair which, with 50,000 visitors each year, for more than 50 years has been supporting companies and their professionals across the entire innovation ecosystem: start-ups, incubators, accelerators, technology partners, public administrations, following the dynamics of innovation.
HE Ambassador Fabrizio Saggio will open the works of the 2023 edition today June 12 at the Sheraton Tunis Hotel with Mr. Sami Ghazali, representative of the Ministry of Communication Technologies and Director General of the Digital Economy, the investment and statistics and the director of the ICE Agency in Tunis, Francesca Tango.
The Italian Ambassador in Tunis, Fabrizio Saggio, recalling that Italy is Tunisia’s main trading partner, underlined that “technological development and the ICT sector are two areas in which Italian-Tunisian collaboration has enormous margins of development. For this reason, the Italian system has aimed, for years, to promote and support the start-up sector in this country, aiming at the creation of synergies within the framework of a 360-degree support, constantly guaranteed by the Italian government. To this end, Italy will organize an Italian-Tunisian business forum in the fall to further strengthen bilateral economic cooperation”.
A common strategic vision
Tunisia and Italy now share a common strategic vision in terms of technological development and ICT, as a key to the development of the Country System: Italy, as part of a support process for start-ups launched in 2012 , has now reached a number of more than 13,480 Italian start-ups registered in the dedicated section of the business register, companies supported by a complex system of tax incentives, subsidized loans, crowdfunding, internationalization services and support abroad: a complex experience and an important expertise, which Italy wishes to share with Tunisia by providing skills and tools to better face the challenges of international markets. In 2018 Tunisia launched an ambitious project dedicated to start-ups through the measures contained in the “Start-up Act”, measures included in the framework of the National Strategic Plan for Digital Tunisia 2016-2021, renewed in the 2021-2025 Plan, aimed at supporting Tunisian startups, but more generally at encouraging young talent, the country’s economic growth and making Tunisia a real innovation hub for the entire African continent. The Start-Up Act has enabled Tunisia to achieve in a few years the objective of around 900 labeled startup patents.
The director of the office of the ICE Agency in Tunis, Francesca Tango, declared to this effect that “training plays an increasingly strategic role in the professional life of each one of us: the training designed by “Icea Genzia » and dedicated to managers of the Tunisian start-up sector aims to give the opportunity to quickly create a useful rise in power on current issues, which focus on them, all on the communication activities of its innovative project, preparation of pitches, digital marketing, analytics, corporate social networks, protection and enhancement of intellectual property, with the aim of enabling effective networking and adequate professional updating, a starting point for promote collaborations and synergies between different skills with local and foreign companies, around the search for innovative solutions”.
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