BUSINESSMED participated to the “EUROMED GREEN ENERGY ROADSHOW” organized by the EU-funded project EUROMED Invest on 7-8 December, co-located with Electrix & Solar-Tec 2015, Cairo international Convention Centre, Egypt. The AHK, ASCAME, BusinessMed, UHCCI, CEEBA, Eurochambres and FEDCOC, are partners of this event.

BUSINESSMED was present with a delegation of Mediterranean companies from the renewable energy sector. The two-day event included a high level panel on opportunities in the renewable energy sector that covers everything from large scale public tenders to small island solutions for the tourism and industry sector, a multilingual workshop on doing business between the Euro-Med region and Egypt was organized and 250+ individual B2B meetings tailored to the companies’ needs, and networking event with highly targeted participants from the renewable energy sector including representatives of companies, BSOs, business clusters and policy makers.

The objective of this business event is the improvement of business cooperation between Egypt and European countries as well as South-South relations and direct foreign investments (FDI) in the renewable energy sector. The global aim of the EUROMED Invest project is to boost private business and investment within the Euro-Mediterranean region to contribute to an inclusive economic development. The project activities aim to empower Euro-Med business and investment networks to implement targeted strategies in support of SME development in specific sectors: agri-food, water and alternative energies, tourism, transport and logistics, cultural and creative industries.