European project links universities to boost innovation

By Wagdy Sawahel. The Mediterranean Innovation Alliance, or MEDINNOALL, project aimed to promote research and development as well as technology and industrial upgrading. Its outcomes will be discussed at a regional event to be held in Morocco next month. Nizar Ayadi, coordinator of the MEDINNOALL project, told University World News: “Ensuring stronger relevance of universities in the context of their economic environments and enhancing universities’ contributions to national and regional economic and innovation performance are among the most topical issues.”
The MEDINNOALL project worked to promote innovative thinking in higher education in the Mediterranean and strengthen the ability of universities to collaborate and conduct research. Read more...