7 Tunisian-Italian cooperation agreements signed

Seven cooperation agreements were signed, on Tuesday in Tunis, between Tunisia and Italy in several areas including energy, education and decentralisation, TAP reports. At a press briefing following the first meeting of the Tunisian-Italian Higher Council of Strategic Partnership, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, signed the joint declaration of the first meeting of the Tunisian-Italian Higher Council of Strategic Partnership between Tunisia and Italy on the prospects for the bilateral partnership in the coming period. Another agreement was signed between Tunisia and Italy on strengthening…

“Talent Fair: Rebuild Tunisia” for creating favourable environment accessible to recruiters

The Tunisian Entrepreneurship & Spin-Off Association (ATUPEE) and the Tunis Higher School of Communication (SUP’COM)  Junior Enterprise  (SJE) are organizing on Saturday, May 4, in the Conference Space, an event called “Talent Fair: Rebuild Tunisia” which aims to enhance the students’  assets in a favourable environment accessible to recruiters. The “Talent Fair: Rebuild Tunisia” event will focus this year on two main themes: “employability and talent shortage” and “technopreneurship skills”. This is an opportunity to kick off the summer by helping students and future professionals and job seekers to find…

Thomas Cook reveal bookings for Tunisia are surging

THOMAS Cook have released their latest holiday report and it seems that Brits are increasingly looking beyond Europe for their summer holidays, The Sun News Website reports. While Spain remains the number one destination for the nation, countries like Turkey and Tunisia are coming back into favour as well. In fact, thanks to a huge surge in bookings this year, Turkey is now the second most popular destination for Thomas Cook customers, the same source said. It’s overtaken Greece, which is now number three. Tunisia has also seen a huge surge in…

“Africa Moves” investment summit set for Tunis in June

The Africa Moves Big Summit will take place in Tunis, on June 17-21, on growth in investment in tech startups across the continent. The event intends to attract as many as 8,000 attendees, featuring more than 200 African startups and 150 guest speakers hailing from dozens of countries, Disrupt-Africa website reports. Held on the premises of the Cité de la Culture in Tunis, Africa Moves is organised by the Entrepreneurship and Diversity Network (EDN), an international non-profit organisation that offers acceleration, incubation and mentoring, the same source said. “We believe…

Sidi Bouzid : Sebbala district calamity, Tunisia mourns “Nos Dames de Tunisie”

Not a week elapses without another disaster reminding the local people and the villagers of the sad fate that beset them. Several farm worker women, being transported to work on a farm in the back of a pickup, were killed when it collided with a minivan carrying poultry in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, last Saturday at dawn. The deaths triggered an outcry on social media, with users accusing farm owners of mistreating their low-paid, mainly female workforce. The obsolescence and precariousness of our legal, and illegal public transport…

Google wants to transform Tunisia into an artificial intelligence Hub

Salim Abid, MENA Developer Ecosystem Manager at Google, said on Friday, in a statement to Express Fm, that Google has trained nearly 155,000 people in the region. He said that the Google Company aims to train 10 thousand Tunisian developers this year. Salim Abid explained that the Hackathon event organized by Tunisia in September in collaboration with Google and Instadeep, aims essentially to make Tunisia an artificial intelligence HUB. He added that there will be between 1,000 and 2,000 trainees in the Hackathon event. TunisianMonitorOnline

Kidney transplant operations from living donor resume in all approved public health facilities

The National Centre for the Promotion of Organ Transplantation (CNPTO) has resumed kidney transplant operations from a living donor in all public health establishments approved by the Ministry of Health, including Hedi Chaker and Habib Bourguiba hospitals in Sfax, Fatouma Bourguiba hospital in Monastir, Sahloul hospital in Sousse, the military hospital in Tunis, Charles Nicole hospital in Tunis and Rabta hospital in Tunis. In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry of Health reported that 20 kidney transplants had been performed in these facilities since early 2019 until April 25,…

First pilot centre specialising in digital innovation launched

The digital Tunisia strategy includes objectives related to start-ups through the improvement of the business climate, said Thursday Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy, Anouer Mâarouf at the launch of a first pilot digital centre in Tunisia, Africa and the Middle East. He added that his department is working with the Ministries of Higher Education and Vocational Training and civil society to consolidate the skills of young entrepreneurs and promote the creation of Start-ups. The Minister indicated that Start-ups need 5 strategic programmes, especially at the programming level, laboratories…

Béja Cheesy Days: Mediterranean Festival dedicated to cheese

The Association of Beja Cheese Festival and Heritage Promotion in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Office of Livestock and Pasture and the Tunisian National Tourist Office are co-organizing the Beja Mediterranean Cheese Festival, which will be held from May 3 to 5, 2019.  After the first edition in 2018, the Beja Cheese Festival has become the meeting place for cheese lovers to meet cheese artisans. They will tell you, with passion, what is behind each cheese. Each cheese will be well explained, its flavours, its manufacturing…

SUP’COM: Open days from April 24 to 28, 2019

The Tunis Higher School of Communication (SUP’COM) organizes, from April 24 to 28 April, Open Days which will allow future students and parents to exchange with the school’s teachers, researchers and students and to discover the profession of digital engineering. In a statement published on Thursday in Tunis, SUP’COM states that this event “is part of the affirmation of its position in the digital ecosystem in Tunisia and with the objective of consolidating the bridges between engineering education, scientific research, business and society”. It is also an occasion for discovering…