Objectives
- To promote scientific research and reach a greater accuracy of it to local or national needs
- To better diffuse the achievement and results of scientific research, which could benefit to the whole society
- To ease the innovation chain from the scientific side to the ground needs side, following a reciprocal circulation of knowledge
- To enhance the role of NGOs and civil society organizations (CSOs) in national innovation processes, in Tunisia and Sicily
Activities
- Identification and selection of relevant associations or CSOs, working in the field of valorisation of scientific research
- Capacity building of those organisations on: (1) awareness-raising on the benefits of transferring scientific knowledge, (2) tools and methodologies to improve and develop such transfers
- Realisation of a concrete operation of such transfer(s) towards social or economical actor(s)
Results
- Inventory of the most relevant entities working in the field of transfer of scientific knowledge
- Capacity building seminar for relevant associations
- Consolidated network of stakeholders involved in transfer of scientific research
- At least 7 scientific research results have been transferred to local or ground-based entities, in various possible sectors (agriculture, environment, culture and arts, social work, education, health)
Partners
- Agence Nationale de Promotion de la Recherche (Tunisia, coordinator)
- Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Nabeul (Tunisia)
- Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Tunisia)
- Società di Gestone della Valle d’Ippari (Italy)
- Università di Catania – Genio Industriale (Italy)
- Institut Supérieur d’Histoire du Mouvement National (Tunisia)
- CESIE (Italy)
