The Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) of the different countries from South of the Mediterranean

Algeria
Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement (ANDI)

Cyprus
Foreign Investors’ Service Centre

Egypt
General Authority for Free Zones
& Investment (GAFI)

Spain
Consorci de Promoció Comercial
de Catalunya (COPCA) (agence catalane)

Spain
INTERES-Invest in Spain
(Agence nationale de promotion de l'investissement)

Greece
ELKE (Hellenic Center for Investment SA)

Israel
Invest in Israel

Jordan
Jordan Investment Board (JIB)

Lebanon
Agence pour le Développement des Investissements au Liban (IDAL)

Malta
Malta Enterprise

Morocco
Direction des Investissements

Palestine (Authority)
Palestinian Investment
Promotion Agency (PIPA)

Syria
Syria Invest (Bureau de l’investissement du ministère de l’industrie)
API en cours de création

Tunisia
Foreign Investment
Promotion Agency (FIPA)

Turkey
Invest in Turkey

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The organisers

The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED) is a regional professional organisation created thanks to the will, determination and militantism of the federation presidents of the twelve members and which aims to show the way to economic integration and social and economic development in the region. BUSINESSMED headquarter is based in Tunis since January 2004, ensures a permanent contact with the federations.

BUSINESSEUROPE represents several million small, medium and large companies through its 39 national business federations from 33 countries.
BusinessEurope actively promotes the role of business world in Europe : strong companies make a strong Europe.
BusinessEurope advocates a favourable and competitive business environment to foster sustainable economic growth and sound economic governance.

Association which aim is to reinforce the action of the MEDEF in the field of bilateral international relations, to provide, in the name of the MEDEF, general representation for French enterprises in economic relations between France and its foreign partners and to develop programmes of operations and collective actions adapted to the particularities of the different markets for the benefit of its members.

The Marseille Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIMP) proposes companies a set of tools, a range of expertise and action to assist them in their international development.
The CCIMP acts mainly on certain geographical target sectors: the strong growth markets (India, Russia, China.), the mature markets (Germany, Great Britain, Canada...) and the Mediterranean region: considered as a major vector of economic development for the Marseille Provence region.

Representative of the Medef for the Bouches du Rhône Department, UPE13, federates 9,000 enterprises. Its missions are to represent, federate, coordinate, inform and accompany the enterprises of the department in the development of their activities, participate actively in the economic and social development of the area, promote enterprise and the spirit of enterprise among young people, academics, politicians and leaders of opinion,…

The international players

ADECI : association of companies from the PACA region which aim is to develop industrial partnerships in the Mediterranean region.


Club WTC-APEX : association of companies from the PACA region which aim of which is to help member companies start working on the international scene through a range of different means: information, thematic meetings, missions abroad, administrative assistance.

COFACE : the Coface’s mission is to facilitate trade between the companies of different countries by making available the tools of information, debt management, factoring, credit guarantees.

ONUDI : United Nations Industrial Development Organisation has two offices in France (Paris, Marseille). Their mission is to reinforce industrial cooperation between French companies and developing countries or those in transition.

UBIFRANCE : An industrial and commercial public establishment depending on the Ministry of External Trade and the DGTPE. UBIFRANCE and the economic missions together form a unique network of support, which is active in France and throughout the whole world, to assist French companies to develop internationally in an effective and sustainable way.


DRCE PACA : Emanation, at the local level , of the French Treasury and Economic Policy Department (DGTPE), Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment and State Secretariat for Enterprises and External Trade.
The DRCE facilitates relations between companies and the economic missions, orients them towards sources of information, prospection and promotion programmes and the most suitable assistance procedures for their capacities and projects.

The institutional  partners