BUSINESSMED was pleased to join the announcement ceremony of the winners of the first edition of the WeMed Award Competition, where the Secretary General of the organization, Jihen Boutiba, was a member of the Jury. The award allowed to highlight sustainable initiatives developed in the southern Mediterranean countries.

The ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 20, within the framework of SwitchMed Connect 2021, an event that brings together various Mediterranean actors and has the ambition to create knowledge synergies and intensify ecological and social innovations. The event welcomes start-ups and leading entrepreneurs, industry agents, initiatives, change agents as well as political and financial institutions working on applications of the productive, circular and sharing economy in the Mediterranean. Participating organizations come together for cross-country exchanges, knowledge sharing and developing solutions to the challenges of scaling up eco-innovative business models.

During the ceremony, two honorary mentions selected by the jury were announced, applications that did not win prizes, but were congratulated by the jury because of their positive impacts at environmental and social levels.

BUSINESSMED was honored to contribute to the selection process of this award, marked by the high quality of the candidates, valuing remarkable innovations in the Mediterranean region. The organization continues to strengthen the support to companies that manage to combine economic value and job creation with environmental and social value, in order to achieve a green recovery and avoid new crises.