Category: Success Stories

Omar Guiga, manufacturer of Tunisian car “Wallyscar” winner of IMF Innovation Contest

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Young Tunisian Omar Guiga, who designed and manufactured the Tunisian car “Wallyscar”, is one of the winners of the Arab Youth Campaign on Innovation Contest organised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and that has targeted young people between the ages of 18 and 35 from the Middle East / North Africa region, TAP report. The young manufacturer told TAP his factory, located in El Kabaria (south of the capital Tunis), manufactures each year 200 cars that are exported to the French, Portuguese and Spanish markets, besides the Caribbean islands,…

Hackathon 2018: Tunisian Youth Challenge for embracing prosperous future

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The 6th edition of the Global Game Jam (GGJ) was hosted in the ULT University in Tunis at the initiative of the Tunisian Game Developers (TGD) Association and sponsored by the National Centre of Cinema and Image (CNCI). The TGD is the first non-profit association in Tunisia, representing the video game development industry. It was founded in February 2012, to advocate for the development of video games and promote industry collaboration in Tunisia. Houssem Ben Amor, co-founder, president and head of sponsoring at the Tunisian Game developers Association said that…

Mitacs Canada Award for Outstanding Innovation bestowed to Tunisian young engineer and startupper Houssem Zouaghi

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A former student of the Higher Institute Multimedia Arts of Manouba (ISAMM)  Houssem Zouaghi sets for himself an objective when he was faced with a choice of a subject of a graduation project which he said that he wanted it to be “out of the box”. Surfing the net, he came across Mitacs. It is a Canadian organisation that has been designing and implementing research and training programmes for 18 years. Mitacs Globalink Programme offers fellowship between Canada and Several other partner countries including Tunisia. Houssem Zouaghi’s graduation project was…

Triomphe de Tuccabor’s extra virgin olive oil: traceability makes it unique in reaching golden triumph

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Driving on my way to Medjez el Bab, reaching the hill of Toukaber, a small town but big with its riches in agricultural golden treasure of the Olive tree, I was not aware that this areas can hide such excellent and rich resources entrenched in this landscape of an amazing sightseeing for those who want to seek some rest away from busy cities. It looks like an earthly paradise or a small part of heaven left there in the north-western part of Tunisia. Stopping for a while looking around, I…

Tunisian Nader Masmoudi awarded Fermat Prize for Mathematics 2017

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The 2017 Fermat Prize was awarded to Tunisia’s Nader Masmoudi (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA) for his outstanding work of in-depth and creativity in analyzing non-linear partial differential equations and in particular for his contributions to the rigorous and complete resolution of hydrodynamic stability problems raised by the founding fathers of modern fluid mechanics at the end of the 19th century. This prize was awarded jointly with the German Simon A. Brendle (Columbia University, New York, USA) for his many and profound results in geometric analysis. Nader…

Self-made icon Ahmed Mhiri sets example for Tunisian youth

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“Dream big and work hard! My motto is “it always seems impossible until it is done!” See how far you can go but do what you really want to do!” said TravelCar Founder and CEO Ahmed Mhiri. For him, the key to accomplishment is to be motivated, determined, and positive. He believes that it is not going to be easy, there will be many bumps and bruises along the way and that he will never get through them if he goes into the project half-heartedly. Ahmed Mhiri knows that he…

Myron International Clinic centre of multi-disciplinary surgery in Tunisia

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Tunisia has become the first country of multi-disciplinary surgery namely plastic surgery by its low prices and the competence of highly renowned surgeons who attract patients from all over the world. The Myron International Clinic, a newly born institute, occupies an important place among the leaders of surgical hospitalization nationwide and more generally worldwide. The Myron International clinic offers to the patients several areas of surgical intervention as well as a comprehensive care in the patients’ care paths while guaranteeing excellent services during their stays. Created in 2015, the Myron…

E-commerce startup wins Seedstars Tunisia

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E-commerce startup Favizone has been named the winner of the Tunisian leg of the Seedstars World global seed-stage startups competition, and will now have the chance to pitch for up to US$500,000 in funding at the global final next year. The 2017 edition of Seedstars World will see local events take place in more than 25 cities across all the regions of Africa, with new countries such as Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mauritius, Madagascar, Sudan and Zambia added to the tour. The winner from each country is…

Tunisian Big Data Startup Datavora Raises Funding To Support E-Commerce Ventures

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For e-commerce startups in MENA and all over the world, it is a conflicting time to do business- while the industry is thriving on the whole, the pressures of competition are perhaps at the highest levels and are indicative of a winner-takes-all scenario. Add to that the poor levels of customer loyalty in online shopping, and you have a difficult problem in your hand as an e-retailer. It is in such tough times that entrepreneur Hedi Zaher felt that it would serve e-commerce players well to do something about the…

Tunisia’s Olivko wins Gold Award in New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC)

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Tunisian extra virgin olive oil “Olivko” won the Gold Award at the world’s largest and most prestigious extra virgin olive oil competition, known as the New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC), held in New York, USA on Thursday, April 27, 2017. Curtis Cord, the founder of the NYIOOC and publisher of Olive Oil Times said “we are not here only to celebrate the winners of  this competition, we’re here for much bigger purpose to recognize and applaud every producer who has set out to craft the best olive oil…