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Hult Prize ESSEC Tunis 2020 Award challenge: “Building start-ups that have a net impact on environment for every dollar earned”

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The Hult Prize ESSEC Tunis presents the concept of the Hult Prize on its social media page by stating that “by participating in your university’s Hult Prize On Campus program, you will acquire the necessary skills to transform your idea into a sustainable project. The winning team of the program will have a guaranteed place in the regional summit, in more than 27 different countries. Bringing together people from different cultures and backgrounds, the initiative offers you the opportunity to present your innovative ideas, learn from your peers, inspire and…

Hult Prize ESSEC Tunis 2020 Challenge: “Build start-ups that have net impact on environment on every Dollar earned”

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The Hult Prize ESSEC Tunis presents the concept of Hult Prize on its social media page, saying that “by participating in Hult Prize On Campus program in your university, you will gain the needed skills to transform your idea into a sustainable project. The winning team from the program will have a guaranteed spot in the Regional summit, host in more than 27 different countries around the world. Bringing together people from different cultures and backgrounds, It offers you the opportunity to showcase your innovative ideas, learn from your peers,…

IOM project provides internships for young Tunisians in Belgium

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A group of Tunisian students enrolled in the IOM program | Photo: IOM

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has been supporting 31 young Tunisians to develop their work skills and find jobs back home through internships in Belgium. 80 % of them have found a job since their return. With a 20-month “labor migration” initiative linking Belgium and Tunisia, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) wants to help 31 Tunisian students and university graduates build up their skills and increase their chances of finding an adequate job, INFOMINGRANTS reports. Launched in March 2018 and running through October 2019, the scheme titled…

Jendouba: Agreement on empowerment of local society signed

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A partnership agreement was signed on Thursday between the governorate of Jendouba and USAID (United States Agency for International Development). This agreement concerns the “Maan” programme (Tunisia Resilience and Community Empowerment) which will be implemented over 5 years in 15 governorates, with a budget of 147 million dinars (49.6 million dollars). The “Maan” programme aims to strengthen the empowerment of local society to help it meet political and socio-economic challenges. Chokri Terzi, Adviser to the Prime Minister in charge of youth, said that 60 young people from Fernana and Ghardimaou,…

Mashrou3i project initiative for olive oil platform in Beja closes in Ben Ismail family reserve

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The Mashrou3i project initiative to set up an olive oil platform in Beja ended on Saturday, September 7 in Toukaber in the Ben Ismail family reserve, bringing together nearly 30 actors from the olive oil sector (farmers, oil mill operators, SMSAs, bank and support structure representatives) to present the results of the collaboration initiated last February. This action is part of the activities of the Mashrou3i Programme to support farmers in the region, highlighting the need to bring together the stakeholders concerned to promote the value chain for olive oil.…

China Campus 2019 exhibition held to attract more Tunisian students

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The exhibition of “China Campus 2019” was held on Tuesday with the participation of 31 Chinese universities. It was jointly hosted by China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Chinese embassy in Tunis and Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. CSC Vice Secretary-General Wang Shenggang said that the Chinese delegation came to Tunisia to introduce China’s higher education and attract more Tunisian youth to study in China. He said that in 2018 more than 660,000 Chinese students went abroad to study, while about 490,000 foreign students came to China to…

Migrants Crisis in Mediterranean: IOM accused of forcing Bangladeshis to go home

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The UN migration agency has been accused of forcing Bangladeshi migrants, including children, in Tunisia to return home following weeks at sea, the Daily Star reported. The Forum Tunisien pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux (FTDES) NGO, filed a complaint to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Tunisia this month in this regard. The group of 64 Bangladeshis said they felt pressed by the IOM to sign a voluntary return paper, or risk arrest, according to a report by British daily The Guardian published on August 26. The migrants…

Harvard Kennedy School Receives $1 Million Gift to Establish First Tunisian Graduate Fellowship Program

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Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced the creation of a new graduate student fellowship program funded by a $1 million gift from Harvard College alumnus Hazem Ben-Gacem AB 1992. For the next three years, the fellowship will cover the costs for up to two accepted applicants from Tunisia per year enrolled in the HKS Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree program. The fellowship program honours Ben-Gacem’s father, Hamida Ben-Gacem MPA 1972, the first Tunisian graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, the HKS website reports. “We appreciate Hazem’s continuing generous support of…

Tunisian young swimmer Ayoub El Hafnaoui books ticket to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

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Tunisian 16-year-old swimmer Ayoub El-Hifnawi succeeded in booking the ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by achieving the “A” time under the supervision of Tunisian technical staff Jabran Touili and Sami Achour. This performance is a great challenge for  Tunisian young swimmer trained in Tunisia to carry out this dream. Tunisian swimmers also won the gold medal at the African Games in Morocco in the 400 meters which was the performance of swimmer Mehdi Ajili. Wassim Elloumi and Adnen Beji also won the bronze Medal which is a good…

New research in Tunisia is teaching computers how to read your handwriting

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Computers can now read handwriting with 98% accuracy Researchers at the University of Sfax in Tunisia have developed a new method for computers to recognize handwritten characters and symbols in online scripts. The technique has already achieved ‘remarkable performance’ on texts written in the Latin and Arabic alphabets. iRead “Our paper handles the problem of online handwritten script recognition based on an extraction features system and deep approach system for sequence classification,” the researchers wrote in their paper. “We used an existent method combined with new classifiers in order to…