Innova - INNOVA at training workshop on technology transfer and internationalization, 2 & 4 February 2010, Syria

Based on the successful outcomes of the seminars and accompanying actions to local SMEs held in Tunisia in 2008 and 2009 on Technology Transfer, Innovation and internationalization organized by the Italian foreign trade Institute (ICE), the experience will be replicated in Syria where 2 training seminars will be held: one at Damascus on the 2^nd February and the other at Aleppo on the 4^th February.

Aleardo FURLANI, CEO of INNOVA, is the appointed lecturer and will present the methods and procedures to launch successful technological, scientific and trade partnerships between Syria and Italy. In particular, technology transfer and cooperation in the R&D framework, compliance with technical standards, market access, industrial cooperation will be highlighted.

INNOVA will also coach, analyse and collect new project ideas from interested Syrian companies. The aim is to select a number of promising projects to be inserted in a “Supporting and accompanying” programme which will follow in 2010 assisting and promoting Syrian business development projects and identifying matching possibilities with Italian counterparts interested in an internationalisation or outsourcing process in Syria.

Read the Newsletter on the event (p.4 In Italian)